Illustration and Visual Narrative : Project 2 - Decisive Moment

Illustration and Visual Narrative COM61304

NAME: Sea Hirayama

I.D: 0347596

COURSE: Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

●Instructions

 ★ Capture the unique, fleeting, and meaningful moment of that time, ideally one involving movement and action. 

 ★ Create a sophisticated background to the subject that interacts both visually and psychologically with the subject in a synergistically meaningful figure/ground relationship. 

 ★ Exercise anticipation, ambiguity and uncertainty of the moment as a visual gap, interval, or suspension of some kind through the animation loop. 

 ★ Provide a logline to describe the moments, but not enough to reveal the whole story behind the picture.

●Idea exploration

     So I select the anime "The Return of Lum/ Urusei Yatsura" for this exercise because I wanted to create anime with this, Lum-chan. 

     Ataru Moroboshi, a high school student who has been selected as the earth representative of "Tags" who bet the fate of the earth, was initially unmotivated, but his lover and childhood friend Shinobu Miyake's said that if he wins, he will get married. For this he wants to be connected with her, he starts chasing Lum, the representative of the demons.

Figure 1.1 Lum-chan from Pinterest

 And then I selected these scene of it to show how adorable Lum-chan is. One of the gif is Lum-chan is changing clothes. Another one is her enjoying swimming( btw, she can fly.) For these images, I would like to try mix them and change Lum-chan to me! So I started to sketch for this at first.

Figure 1.2 Lum-chan from Pinterest

Figure 1.3 Lum-chan from Pinterest

Figure 1.4 sketch lum-chan (me ver.)

 Then I sketched in Photoshop like this.

Figure 1.5 the process to make animation with Photoshop

Figure 1.6 sketch of animation 

 It wasted a lot of time....... then I put color on.

Figure 1.7 sketch of animation (with color)

 After the lecture, I got the advice to make it more easily and make just a poster. So I created it again and make it like a poster. First, I just drawn Lum-chan as me with moving like this. Then, I put the background and title.　Also, I created the title with changing name from Lum-chan to Sea in Japanese.

Figure 1.8 the title 

Figure 1.9 and 1.10 the part of animation

Figure 1.11 the animation

Figure 1.12 - 1.15 the process of compose background

 Finally, I put the tiger pattern on Lum-chan and fix all them.