Scheduling

To get all of the work done on time, we have put together a schedule for each part of the project to be done, as well as who is doing what part of the project.
Everyone in the group agreed to come up with the ideas and the visual style of the show. We split our group into two to think up compositions for the posters and video. Two will think up typography and taglines, whilst the other two will come up with the layout for the poster. Since then, I have started to come up with poster ideas.
I have been tasked with drawing the illustrations for the posters and 30 second video, so I need to start working towards completing my images around a week before deadline.

Looking at Comic Books

I have looked at various comic book covers to look at the artistic styles used and to get ideas for my compositions.

Many of the covers have the superheroes in action-like poses. The colours used range from very bright high contrast colours to black for the shading on the characters. To replicate this style, I shall also use bright colouring on my illustrations, as well as using black and white as the main colours for my shading, to contrast with the colours.

Group Project - End of year show prep

For this project, we have been put into groups to work on a identity for the end of year show. This includes an overall theme, A3 and A4 poster designs, and a promo video.
Our first idea was a colourful, hippie theme, and neon style.
After discussing ideas in a group of four, we have developed our idea from a comic book theme. I originally thought this would branch off from the colour hteme that was suggested by others in the group, and from the original comic idea we have come up with an idea that shows off our own personal skills and traits in a cohesive design theme.
The main idea is to make ourselves the superheroes, and have 'alter egos' to ourselves that represent our design talents. Coming up with a name for our theme was done by thinking up words that mean 'change', such as transforming into our 'designer' selves. Some of the words that we came up with include progress, metamorphosis, grow, unfold, develop, journey, transform. Morph was the word that we liked the most out of these, and we felt that we needed to change the word a little to make it sound more like a title for a superhero poster. Morphus or Morphed were the words discussed, and we eventually decided on Morphed.

From this, we are coming up with a time plan to schedule ourselves so be get it all done to the deadline.

Using After Effects for Animating

My animation was animated in a similar way to my previous projects, with the images moving, as well as certain parts of the pictures having their own animated parts, such as character's arms.

After having messed up timelines on other projects, I have put the separate scenes in their own compositions this time so the main timeline wasn't filled up with layers.

Again I have used several techniques in After Effects to animate, such as rotation, positioning and opacity.

Drawing my pictures in Photoshop

I chose to draw all of my pictures in Photoshop because it is easy to create a painted effect with the various brushes that Photoshop has.

After creating the pictures using various layers, I then flattened them to make it easier to place them in After Effects.

For the images that I am going to have movement on, I will cut up the different parts of the image that I want to move and put them on their own layers.

Drawing style

For my video, I am drawing all of my pictures in Photoshop. Here is an example of one of the scenes in my video:

 This is the first scene of my video. It shows the 'goal island' that the people on the first island that they need to get, which has a brighter sky to signify that this is a better place to be than the other one.

New story for my video

After talking about my idea with others, the idea of flight being the main focus of my story has been scrapped because it was not considered a 'different' idea. If flying was possible, everyone would do it, rather than building things to cross to an island.
To keep my original idea fairly similar and a bit more of a believable ending for the story. I am thinking of including a dragon and various obstacles that the people must traverse through to get to the other island. The others think of ways to pass or defeat the dragon, whereas the main character is thinking of befriending the dragon instead so she can cross on it.