Illustration: Final Project

20th May - 10th July 2022 / Week 8 - 15

Alana Sofia Othman / 0353451 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Illustration

Project 4

INSTRUCTIONS

Project 4: Motion Comic

Progression

References

Figure 1.1. Reference for Motion Comic

Figure 1.2. Reference for Motion Comic

Figure 1.3. Reference for Motion Comic

Figure 1.4. Reference for Motion Comic

Daily Progression Saves

Video 1.1. Progression Day 1

Video 1.2. Progression Day 2

Video 1.3. Progression Day 4

Video 1.4. Progression Day 5

Video 1.5. Progression Day 6

Video 1.6. Progression Day 7

I decided to work with Adobe Animate as I only had a week left to finish the project and I am more familiar with this software compared to others such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, etc. I focused on transferring the panels into Animate first and working with the transitions before animating anything.

At the end of everyday, I would export the video for progress documentation, however, on day 3, I had trouble with exporting as the file was to heavy and my Animate would just crash. So, my entire day 3 progress was basically pointless and on day 4 I had to figure out how to downsize everything. So, halfway through the video, the quality kind of drops since I had to work with raster images for the background instead of keeping it as crispy clear vector graphics.

Final Outcome

A Cat-astrophe (Motion Comic)

Video link: https://youtu.be/ACatastrophe

FEEDBACK

Daily Progress saves

Progression Day 2

- Panel 7 looks abit odd as it has a weird shape when put alone

- Try filling it up to make it less awkward

- Panel 21-23 is too fast. Slow it down

- Panel 28 and 29 has an interesting transition

- For panel 35, could maybe have the water from the outsome coming in and puncing the cat

Progression Day 3

- Work with raster images as the background instead of all vector

- Export at 720p instead of 1080p

Progression Day 7

- The beginning and end title card are a good choice because first and last impression means alot

- First few panels (up to the flashback) need to slow down, it's too fast to understand

REFLECTION

Experience

It was stressful considering I was on a time crunch and only had a week to complete this assignment. I was lucky as I was not constrained to using Adobe After Effects since I am more familiar with Adobe Animate. Despite all the stress, it was interesting to make a motion comic as it's actually something I have never seen or heard of before.

Observations

I was able to complete this part of the assignment in time, however I was really cutting it close. I realised I spent too much time on drawing the comic and I did not leave enough time to work on the motion comic. Despite knowing the deadline and that turning it into motion would take alot of time, I still chose to take up most of my time with drawing each panel to it's best. This is both a good and bad thing as I did put in the hard work and time to make the comic it's best but I was not focused on allocating enough time to finish both assignments to its best outcome.

Findings

Creating a motion comic could be fun if I had allocated more time to turning it into a motion comic. I still see many things I could have done to make it a more interesting motion comic, however that would take a much longer time. Therefore, moving forward, I will need to work on time management and allocate enough time to create better outcomes for all parts of the assignment, especially focusing on the one that carries more weight in the module.

Alana Sofia Othman (0353451)

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