This document contains a student's work on various digital graphic narrative exercises: 1. The student provides feedback on images created using shapes and rotocope, noting what they liked such as layering and realism, and areas for improvement such as more detail. 2. Feedback is given on a text-based image, praising techniques learned but desiring more time on some elements. 3. Proposals are made for a comic book including dimensions, story outline, format, audience, and methods. Strengths included inspiration and idea generation, while development was needed. 4. Storyboards, original and final scripts, and flat plans were included but not summarized due to length. Feedback was summarized,

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Tom Brett

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the layers I used on the bears face in my image, I think it works really well
because it looks bold but still has a shading effect to it. I also like the trees I made
in the background because I used the warp tool to make the trees look wavy. One
of my favourite things about this image is how successful the gradient is in some
parts of the image like on the bears nose and the bears face, I like it because it
makes the image look a bit more realistic and shows where the light is.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to do this task again I think I probably would clean more around the
edges and add in more detail. I also think I would use more advanced techniques
to enhance my image and make it look more accurate. I would also focus more on
the background. Next time I will concentrate on smaller details like adding a glint
or reflection in the eyes and the leaves on the trees in the background and maybe
have some detail on the fur.

4. Rotoscope

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I prefer this image much more than the previous image I did using shapes, I
think that this image is more accurate but looks more like a cartoon which is
what I was going for. I like the different coloured shading I did around the
bears head and the glint in the bear’s eye which is one thing I said I wanted to
improve on last time. I didn’t use any of the original image’s textures because
I thought that it would look too detailed and not look like a cartoon enough.
Overall I am impressed with this image and I prefer it to my shape task image
that I produced earlier.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did retried doing this image I would probably focus on making some of the
edges of the shading less jagged even though some of the jagged edges look
really good with the image looking like a cartoon, others look too sharp and
over the top. Another thing I would improve on (like in the last image) is the
background because I feel like I can add in more detail in places, however I
was focused more on the bear which is the main part of the image.

6. Text Based

7. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I prefer the image on the right hand side because I used the
more advanced techniques on my text and the end product on
the top one with the Frisbee behind it looks professional but
yet its quite simple. I am glad I have learned these techniques
because I will probably need them later on in the course.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would probably spend more time on some of the texts like
the last one I did because I changed it into an image meaning
that I have lots of possibilities with what I can do to edit the
text and make it look as fit for purpose as I can.

8. Comic Book

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

10. Photography

11. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

12. Illustration

13. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
What would you improve if you did it again?

14. Initial Ideas

15. Mood board of inspiration

16. Idea Generation

17. Mood board of chosen idea

18. Proposal
Dimensions
(number of pages and page size)
Story Overview
(Provide an outline of your story)
Export Format
Advantages:
Disadvantages:

19. Deadline
Audience
(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class,
location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)
Production Methods
(Explain the methods you are going to use to produce your pages. Show us the
thinking behind your decisions for a more detail response)

20. 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?

21. 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?

22. 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?

23. 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?

24. Storyboards

25. Storyboards

26. Storyboards

27. Original Script
Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

28. Original Script
Original Script goes here with link to where it came from

29. Final Script
Final script goes here.

30. Digital Flat Plans