- The document appears to be notes from a digital graphic narrative development project, including exercises on shapes, rotoscoping, film quotes, text, comics, and more
- For each exercise, the student provided what they liked about their image and how they would improve if doing it again
- They also included initial ideas for possible fairy tales to adapt, including a breakdown of characters and plot for Rumpelstiltskin and The Nightingale
- A draft script is outlined for an adaptation of the fairy tale "The Straw Millionaire" set in a future world with robots trading parts instead of humans trading goods
- Storyboards and dialogue
4. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked how the shapes of the image were very simple
and that those simple shapes combined to create an
image with a surprising amount of detail taking into
account what its made of.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Create more shapes for shading, definition and the
overall shape of the subject.
7. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how the shades create a very minimalist
theme to the image while keeping the main
features noticeable and discernible.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Add more selections and shading to the
background and the face of the subject. Make
the nose, ears and painting more defined with
more shading and details.
10. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the fact that despite the low number of
shapes and details in the image the subject is
recognisable and shows of the features of said
subject.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would make some more details and definition
on the face by messing with the colours and
brightness of the subjects shapes.
13. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the effect that the overlay has on the text
as well as the different effects that we can add
to text without transforming the text.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Add more text with different effects on them
like different overlays or more heavily edited
texts.
16. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
With the cut out filter putting a very simplistic
colour into the image and the Black and white layer
putting the shadows the image has a very simplistic
look.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Play around with the cut-out layers options until I
found the setting that best fits the image with the
right number of colour layers and edge sharpness.
19. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
The fact that it is quite easy to read what is
happening in the image and to piece the story
together from those images.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Take clearer images so the they are easier to see
like with the lock image being too dark and the
final image being slightly blurry.
21. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
The colour of the birds body is close to the
shade that was on the reference so its close to a
real bird.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Change the shape of the outline of the bird to
make it look a lot smooth and flow a lot better.
Put more detail into the bricks from the
windowsill and the scene through the window.
23. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how the image uses simplistic shapes to
create a larger image with textures overlaid onto
the layers.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would make the layers a bit more detailed like
putting in each step individually or putting in all
the window selves and rims on the building.
24. Possible Fairy Tales
• Rumpelstiltskin
– 5 characters:
• Queen
• Princess
• King
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Knights
– Plot
• A poor woman wants to live a better life so she makes a deal with a small man, the small man will
turn the woman's straw into gold for the thing the woman values most so she gives the man her
family heirloom and so her straw is turned into gold and she lives happily. Later the kings knights
arrive at the woman's house and demand that she must prepare some of the gold straw for the
king and as such she goes to the small man to make another deal. However this time she has
nothing to give him so they make a deal that he can have her first children in return for the gold
straw. When she arrives at the castle with the golden straw the king proposes to the woman and
takes her as his wife. After years of marriage the woman becomes with a child and the kingdom is
overjoyed about the situation and any memories of the small man she had, had faded away that
was until he arrived demanding the child. After a back and forth between the king, queen and the
small man he makes another deal. If the queen can guess his name within 5 days she can keep her
child but if not he gets to take the child. The guards are sent out to find out the mans name. days
pass and no guard has returned with his name. on the fifth day a guard returns with a story from
the corner of the kingdom, a story about a man called Rumpelstiltskin who can turn straw to gold.
The queen then quickly took this and said the mans name. Rumpelstiltskin throws a fit bashing
walls and pushing over ornaments on his way out of the castle.
25. Possible Fairy Tales
• The Nightingale
– 2 Characters:
• King
• Nightingale
– Plot
• A king sat in a tower captures a nightingale. As he is about to cook it, the nightingale speaks
and begs the king for his life. The king agrees but only if he can give him something of value
to him. The nightingale then gives the king a piece of advice ‘don’t trust empty words from
random strangers.’ the king thanks the nightingale for the advice, as the nightingale flew
away he turned to the king and laughed. ‘now that I'm free you will never get the gems
underneath my wings.’ the king then leaps out of the window to grab the nightingale. As the
king leaps the nightingale dodges and says to the king ‘why did you leap? Could I have
hidden any gems under my wings? You have trusted the empty words of a random stranger
and this is what happens.’
26. Possible Fairy Tales
• The straw millionaire
– Characters:
• Peasant
• Elder
• King
• Princess
• Merchant
– Plot
• A poor man sick of his lifestyle asks the elder what he should do to change it. The
elder says that he should take the straw from his shed and travel west. After
traveling for a while he reaches a man who wants the poor mans straw for some
fruit. The poor man agrees and continues travelling west. He then comes across a
woman who wants his fruit for some silk, the man agrees and continues
travelling. The man then comes across a knight who wants his silk for his old
sword, the poor man agrees. After traveling further he encounters an old man
being attacked, using the knights old sword he struck down the wolves attacking
him. The old man revealed himself to be a king and in return for saving his life
promised the man his granddaughter and his fortune.
31. Proposal
Dimensions
A4 Pages, 10-12 pages.
Story Overview
A straw millionaire with a Scifi setting. Instead of humans it would be robots in a world
that is over grown with vegetation and nature. Instead of the normal straw to
millionaire it would be a series of robots trading parts for things they need for example
screws for metal sheets. The underlying theme would stay the same whilst its themes
and details change significantly.
Export Format
JPEG
Advantages: Its an image format that has high definition and a reasonable file size.
Disadvantages: Cannot easily edit once exported so any changes must be done before
exporting.
32. Deadline
09/06/17
Audience
the age is about 4-7, gender is boys, class isn't relevant and location isn't relevant
either as the story doesn't have connections to a pre-existing location. These are
because the story is about robots and that is a much more boyish topic than girlish.
The age is 4-7 as that was in the brief and is the age that we were told to tailor
towards.
Production Methods
I will most likely use a combination of shape manipulation and rotoscoping. This is
because the shapes will give a better control when creating a character but
rotoscoping will make the backgrounds a lot easier to manipulate and control.
Rotoscoping may be used with the construction of characters as they might need
harsh edges or straight edges. I may use a lot of overlaying and texture mapping to
make the images look a lot more detailed and full.
33. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
34. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
35. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
36. Feedback Summary
Sum up your feedback.
Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?
Which parts of your feedback do you disagree with and why?
37. Original Script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Millionaire
A hard-working but unlucky peasant named Daietsu-no-suke prays to Kannon, the
goddess of mercy, to help him escape poverty. Kannon tells him to take the first thing he
touches on the ground with him and travel west. He stumbles on his way out of the
temple and grabs a piece of straw. While traveling, he catches a horsefly that was
bothering him and ties it to the straw. In the next town, the buzzing horsefly calms a
crying baby and the thankful mother exchanges it for three oranges. Taking the oranges,
he continues on his journey and encounters a dehydrated woman. He gives her the
oranges and she thanks him by giving him a rich Silk cloth. The peasant meets
a samurai with a weak horse. The samurai demands the silk cloth in exchange for his
horse. The peasant nurses the horse back to health and continues west. A millionaire is
impressed by his horse and invites him to his home. The millionaire's daughter turns out
to be the same woman he saved with his oranges. Seeing this as a sign, the millionaire
insists that the peasant marry his daughter, making him a millionaire.
38. Script Breakdown:
• The main character wants change and is told that trading is the way to get what he wants
• The main character travels with his own resources and meets someone
• Trades resources
• Main character now has new items to trade and continue traveling
• Meet another person to trade with and gets new items again
• Main character now has anew item and uses the items to help a person
• The character repays the main character with what he had been looking for
39. Draft Script (Scenes)
Page 1:
A small cleaning robot is doing its job before an alarm sounds for low battery
Page 2:
The robot turns to a closet to find a battery to see that there aren't any left
Page 3:
Determined to find a new battery it takes a cart of scrap that it has been collecting to see if he
can use it to find a battery
Page 4:
After traveling for a while he finds another robot that is collapsed on the ground
Page 5:
The cleaner walks up and uses his scrap to fix the other robot
Page 6:
In return for fixing him the robot gives him a large gear and places it on the cleaners cart
Page 7:
The warning beeps again
Page 8:
The cleaner continues traveling to find a large door missing segment
Page 9:
Cleaner places the large gear into the slot which then begin turning and opens the door
Page 10:
Cleaner passes through the door to find a large robot
Page 11:
Uses the things in the cart to fix the large robot
40. Draft Script (Scenes)
Page 12:
The large robot begins to get up
Page 13:
Cleaner runs out of battery and shuts down
Page 14:
The large robot looks down towards the cleaner
Page 15:
The large robot removes one of his several batteries and inserts it into the cleaner
Page 16:
Cleaner awakes and thanks the large robot and begins his journey home
41. Draft Script (Dialogue)
Page 1: Chris was a small cleaning robot in charge of cleaning a small laboratory on the edge
of a city. This place was old and falling apart after his owners left but Chris kept cleaning. One
day however his schedule was drawn to a halt when an alarm sounded. Chris turned to read
his monitors to find he was low on charge.
Page 2: in a panicked state Chris rushed to a closet in hopes of finding a battery. But to no
avail. Chris packs all his things into a cart in hopes of being able to find a battery with his
various gadgets and parts.
Page 3: remembering his owners words Chris realized that the best way to get what he needs
is to travel to the city with something to trade with. Opening the door to the outside world
Chris begins to travel to find a battery so that he can remain functional
Page 4: after some time Chris comes across a broken robot. Sparking and damaged Chris drew
closer to see that his various tools and scrap may be able to fix him.
Page 5: after fixing the damaged robot he thanks Chris and gives Chris one of the gears from
his collection in the building behind them.
Page 6: as Chris begins to leave the warning goes off once again. Reading the situation the
fixed robot points Chris towards a large tower in the center of the city. “go there” he said “you
will be helped there”
Page 7: with now time to spare Chris heads towards the tower only to be stopped by two
large doors in front of the tower. Chris examines the door before find a small gear shaped hole
Page 8: pushing the gear into the slot a large churning can be heard as the gears turn and the
doors slowly scrape open.
Page 9: going into the tower Chris looks up to see a towering giant robot in front of him
staring at it he sees various dents and missing pieces on the large robot.
42. Draft Script (Dialogue)
Page 10: using the scraps that he began with and those handed to him along his journey he
began to fix the giant in front of him.
Page 11: Over time Chris kept fixing while trying to ignore the beeping from his alarm. With
the last piece in place the giant began to move and stand but at the same time Chris began to
run out of charge and shut down.
Page 12: the giant looks down to see Chris, limp and out of charge, and picks him up. Lifting
the panel off his chest, the giant pulls out a small battery and inserts it into the back of Chris’
head.
Page 13: Chris wakes to the giants question “why would you sacrifice yourself for someone
you don’t know?” to what Chris replies “sometimes the best way to fix your own problems is
to help someone else fix theirs.”
