NM2208 storybook project

This project was quite tiring and intensive for me as i was deeply involved in its production at every level.  After our group agreed on the overall story, i had to place the sequence of events into storyboards and frame them into illustration pages as we decided on a comic book approach.  The creative direction was also decided by me as i was the one who was doing the illustrations as well as final layouts and composition. 
After the layouts are done, i sketched out the foreground objects scan them in and pass them to my groupmates to trace them.  (however in the later stages of the project, i switched over to live trace after improving the levels by adjusting them in photoshop which provided for a better effect than then tracing which were not very good)

  After the traces were done, it was back to me to arrange them into the various composition for the illustrated pages.  Then they were again passed off to another group member to do the preliminary colors and fills.  After that i had to do touchup on the images as well as color the backgrounds and fills.  Touch up also included using the photoshop paint brush to create light shine and reflections off the images and smoothing the colors and textures.

I also did up a page liner to add to the pages where the main text and rhymes for our story would be placed.

Page numbers and extra activity pages where also added
The page number would be displayed as a card held by a tiny robot i drew in illustrator.  The cover was also design only after the inside pages where done and completed.

Assignment 6

This assignment is about giving meaning to words not just by its  spelling.  Therefore i've decided to chose the opening lyrics from the song don't stop believin by Journey.  As this is one of my favourite songs its easy to try to convey the meaning as required by this assignment.  The words for the opening also create 2 "scene" with a similar setting but still having a contrast and this is shown in the way i chose to portray the words "town and girl" and "city and boy" ... also the words are placed in the train and the train itself is set against a night sky backdrop to illustrate the sense of going anywhere with no fixed destination.  The way the trains head off in separate directions further enhance the contrast.  Others such as the word lonely are shown as being cut off from the rest of the sentence.

assignment 5: Designing a greeting card

Here's my design and a number of prelim color schemes

Poster design for health campaign

The idea is to create a poster with images that makes people go ewww....
But the message of my poster is more subtle and meant for adults ....

Assignment 3: U C what I C ?

Why do things fall over?

Assignment 2 Name Card with 200-word abstract

PLAY ON is a business dedicated to enhancing the experience of gamers and to make games more accessible to people of all ages and all walks of life.  PLAY ON began in a cafe where our founder and his friends gather on weekends to chat and to exchange games.  Eventually they decided to set up a online forum to sell their used games or to exchange them.  Soon the practice became so popular that regular weekend gatherings were arranged where members met up.  Soon our founders decided to take a risk and quit their day jobs to set up their own company and set up a place where gamers can call their own.


Features of our business include affordable rental and used game resale service in addition to standard sales.  Premises also include a small cafe setup where people can relax and chat while viewing catalogs and trailers provided.  Friends can come to hang out and play games that they do not need to buy to enjoy and can also meet up with like-minded people.  Monthly gaming events will also be held and will focus on allowing people to play together as well as entertainment catered for families. 

The company logo is an abstracted image of a gaming joystick which is the most basic of gaming peripherals and indicates our focus on games and the gamer with no frills.  It also implies that that gaming is simple and people of all skill level can pick it up.  The company name embodies our belief that life should always be fun.  

Assignment 2 abstraction process

This is the abstraction process of a gaming joystick and it loses its meaning at the 4th stage of abstraction. 

lecture excercise: Iconic and idexical imagery

The 2 images on the left are iconic representations of MP3 music players and computer processors while the 2 on the right are idexical representations

Early concepts

Early concepts

Assignment 1: Gaming Design (Digital ver 0.5)

This is the design for the topic of gaming that I have chosen to work on as the final design.  Will continue to work on the background but the objects are more or less finalized.  ( Will post up the initial concept thumbnails later)

Misfortune

Ok ... This blog is my first ever blog and i set it up as it was a requirement for my NM2208 mod.  It was supposed to be used as design development blog.  Unfortunately i lost my sketchbook before i could even scan in my first batch of work so now i'm redoing them =(