MINOR PROJECT

December 14, 2022

MINOR PROJECT

Week 1 - Week 16 (02/09/2022 - 14/12/2022)

Fann Man Ling - 0344623 (BDCM)

Minor Project // Mr. Mike Choong

Compilation of Project

INSTRUCTION

Module Information Booklet

Projects Briefing

MINOR PROJECT // House of Wisdom Animated Series

WEEK 1

We were given a brief about this module and the list of projects. We were to pick a project and accomplish the given task within these 16 weeks. In my group, there's Wendy, Wiceline, Veyhan, and Safanah.

Before teaming up, I decided to take the 'House of Wisdom' project, which is an adventure and mystery series about Zidan and Mina, who are attempting to decode encrypted messages disseminated around Baghdad, and my groupmates joined my group.

This project was supposed to be a collaboration between the Graphic Design team and Entertainment Design, and our team consists of 3 Graphic Design students and 2 animation students. Since there weren't enough classmates in Entertainment Design in the class, we were permitted to take on this project. Our client is The R&D Studio.

In this ongoing project, we need to create assets for this animated series, including concept art, characters, environment design, and props. The logo title, poster, and merchandises are optional, said Ms. Zaidah from The R&D studio.

🔗：MIROBOARD

RESEARCH & ART DIRECTION

CHARACTER RESEARCH

Before creating the characters, we began our investigation of five popular animated films in order to examine the characters' appealing style

Research on characters

RELOCATE DIRECTION OF THE TARGET AUDIENCE

We found that the studio's target audience (Aged 7+) may not be appropriate for their comprehension, and we reasoned that ages over 10 may be more suited. Hence, we redrafted our interview questions to ask teens and young adults. The final target audience is decided to be 10-19 and above the general audience.

We also conducted interviews with peers in Entertainment Design to learn more about the standards they use when creating environmental artworks.

Interviews

PROPOSAL

Project Proposal (Ideation attempt 1)

PROGRESSION

After having our art direction confirmed, we then moved on to task allocation using Gantt Chart. For example, Safanah is in charge of cleanup, Wendy and Wiceline are in charge of colouring, and I and Veyhan do the artwork.

However, as I discovered, although that sounds great, the outcomes were under my expectation, therefore the work allocation has changed along the timeframe. For instance, there has to be a lot of rectification, like Environment design, because the graphic team was lack of experience with completing artwork in Photoshop. They can help with the characters and props' colours, but not concept art and environment art. As such, they worked on the logo and merchandise in the later stage. Worse still, one of the groupmate, Safanah was gone missing since Week 8, and the workflow was disrupted.

Veyhan was the sole partner on those drawings, but he was having difficulty imitating and matching the master style which results in the necessary polishing tasks. He has decent skills for sketching dynamic angles of the artwork. However, the output generated seems sloppy and has less attention to detail.

I ended up taking on almost all of the work during the production stage, including :

- recreating the characters after feedback

- resketching some works sketched by Veyhan to match the style

- resketching all props as they need different views based on the feedback given

- polishing the rendering of the characters and props

- creating concept art and environment designs

- fine-tuning all of the details like shading and lighting

- making pitch bible

🔗：GANTT CHART_Group 6

Gantt Chart

FINAL ATTEMPT

CHARACTER DESIGN