Story book project: Finding Bunnie part2

These were the colored characters to be used in the story book. Solid line and anime style cell shading is used to color the characters. It is because it will stand out more from the background that will be colored in pastel colors. It also make the characters be more on focus , easier to be notice and seen. We tried other color combination for the robot, this color scheme was the best as it will give the mechanical feeling that it is a robot. Also giving it the feeling that it is a male robot. The rabbit is chosen to be in the pinkish scheme as it gives the feeling that it is an soft toy. Some female like character feel. The shading of the character is chosen to be solid black with opacity and no gradient. It fits the overall theme of coloring the character. Sort of like how the American cartoons color their characters, which I think children will like.

The background that spans over 2 pages is also colored with anime like colors. It gives a brighter feel and also attracts the attention well. It is Robbie walking on the path. It tries to create an impression that Robbie is going somewhere to look for something.

Story book project : Finding Bunnie

Our group met up on the sunday before the tutorial session to discuss. Our group have decide to used the general story line that I thought of but with additionall tweaks here and there. Since it is a chidlern book so I try to introduce something for the childern to think over.

My intial idea of the story was to have a boy discover a robot in the store room or somewhere else, and have him travel around places while looking for his heart. After some traveling with the boy and some friends the robot develop emotions but was unaware of it and the boy sort of died due to some accident and the robot cries, feeling that something was pounding inside him he found that he found his heart through the emtions developed througout the journey. But well the others think that the story line is good but people dying in childern sotry book is not so good so some tweak here and there to modify the story and character a bit.

After we met up and had a few hours of discussion we modified the story a bit using the robot that i initially thought of and the rabbit Baihe designed is robot's friend. Since we came up with names for the robot and rabbit. The name is easy to relate to each of the character so it is easier for childerns to remember them. So the robot is called Robbie and the rabbit is called Bunnie.

The setting of the story is that Robbie and Bunnie are friends and one day Robbie realised that there was a heart on Bunnie and he asked Bunnie where to get one. The Bunnie suggested to Robbie to go to the hospital to have a look. After coming back from the hospital Robbie is found out that Bunnie is missing so he felt worried and went around searching for Bunnie. There are flips up in the next 4 pages for Robbie searching Bunnie and under the flip ups the Childern can discover different things there. More of giving some interactiveness and fun to the childern reading the book rather than just plaining reading it. Later after some searching Robbie manage to meet Bunnie outside the hospital waiting for Robbie. Robbie developed feelings that allows him to acquire a heart which is inside him. And happily ever after.

The following picture are the sketches for the characters in different pages and also a rough design of Robbie that I showed my group mate before I started sketching.
The following pictures are the sketches of the characters at different pages. I used the story board drawn by Shao Chong as a reference to position and draw the characters.

Assignment 6

This was the poster me and my partner decides to choose as an example for bad poster.

It was visually bad with the main problem lies in the layout of the poster. There was a sudden break in flow of viewing the poster due adding the title and cast names at the right of the poster. The flow of the viewing tends to be quite messy due to it. There are also too many objects in the backgrounds, telling different story in each of the background. In short it is more of information overflowing. The inlcuding of the title part is really qutie an eyesore as it does not fits into the poster due to having a different color scheme. It is really quite ugly to have it there.

The reason I have chosen this poster as the example for being a good poster is not only because if fufils many of the principles but also because it give me the feeling that there are some intense war or struggle between the good and evil. I felt so mainly because of the 2 robots staring at each other and also with the light of the background town image giving me a feeling of some intense emtion between them.

As the robots are "closer" to the auidence they have more details in them which make them stands out from the background city. The overall theme of the poster also tries to remain constant by painting eveything with metallic color or similiar colors. The closure of the robots is also quite good as only part of the head of the robot is being shown but from the picture I get the feeling that they are very big, so I can sort of imagine the rest of their body even without being actually present. The ends of the town is also covered by the robot, but I know that it is a very big city behind it. Looking at the picture I will understand the story line of the movie quite well at a look. This is because of this feeling created, thus I know that there will be some form of war going on. But not a story of 2 robots and humans living happily every after. Since black covers more than 50% of the picture, I was able to focus on the main objects in the picture. Black is a good choice of color as using white will try to steal the attention of the viewer from the main object as black blends in well with the general tone of the metallic and dull coloring of the objects. White will be too striking. Since the picture is viewed from left to right just like reading books so I also feel that it makes seeing the poster easier as there are some posters that wants the reader to read some other way..

Although the main objects in the picture is not being placed at 1/3 of anything to follow the golden ratio, but the feeling of the giangatic robot would not have been there if the robot's head is being push in further towards the center of the picture as it will expose the whole of the head. Visually speaking, it will also be not as pleasent. And the objects are being placed in a not balanced manner with main focus on the upper half of the picture. But I find it more visually pleasent to be focusing the picture on the upper half of the poster instead of having something in everywhere in order to be "balanced" in the poster. It shows that it is not neccessary the poster that have fufiled the most principle is the best poster. Some principles can be neglected as it might not eb appropriate to apply it sometimes. Blindly following all the principles is always not so good.

In the tutorial there was someone presenting "The god father" movie poster. Although it fufil many of the visual principle but it was not visually pleasent to me as compared to the transformer poster. It was due tothe very dull color choosen to suits the mood of the poster, but some how I find that it lacks the element of attracting attention to get me to watch the movie. A good movie poster is one that attracts and convince the viewer to watch the movie rather than the one that fufil the most principle. Principles are just there to guide the designer along some path, blindly following might not give good results.