The document contains evaluations of different digital graphic narrative development tasks completed by Will Wheatley using Photoshop software. For a shape task, Will liked the simplicity and ease of creating the image using basic shapes. For a rotoscope task, Will would add more detail to distinguish it from the original image. For a text-based task, Will liked manipulating text but would improve pictures and text styles. For a comic book style task, Will aimed to simulate a comic and would add color and improve drawing skills.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Will Wheatley

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the simplicity of it. And the fact that it was relatively easy to create
with the Photoshop software and looks more or less as it’s supposed to. I like
the fact that whilst the design is very rounded and curvy, only core basic
shapes were used. I used shape merging which is combining multiple layers of
shapes together into one layer so they wouldn’t separate and ruin the image.
I also used the line tool to add in extra detail such as creases in the skin. I also
used the outline tool to give my animal a defining edge around it. Although
my image seems jagged, I have used the warp tool to round and bend some
of the image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I’d like to improve the amount of detail in my animal. As only the basic
features have been added to it such as using the colour range tool to add in
the fur and fuzziness on the animal. I would like to do this to give the cartoon
a slight more realistic look about it. I would also like to clean it up a bit,
making sure the image is smooth, sharp and rounded.

4. Rotoscope

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I used the colour range
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to add in a lot more detail and more
of my own effects as it doesn’t look much
different to the original image.

6. Text Based

7. Text Based

8. Text Based

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your images?
I liked being able to manipulate text because Photoshop gives
you much more freedom to create unlike the likes of
Microsoft Word. I liked being able to add a background to the
text and personalize it with a picture of your choice. I also
liked being able to freely warp and bend text to create shapes
with it. I liked putting the “stroke” borders around my text to
give it a defining edge.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to improve my picture on the text so it is more
clear as to what the picture is. I would also like to improve the
appearance of the bottom text on my first page, adding a
different gradient and style to my text for a nicer, neater look.

10. Comic Book

11. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked how I succeeded in making it simulate a comic book
illustration. I liked the detail of the shadows and highlights in
my image. I also liked the grain in my image to make it seem
old. I also liked how I have used highlights to shine on his face
to make it distinguished.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to give my image some colour as comic books are
usually in colour to convey emotion into the image. I also
would like to draw with a brush tool around the edge of the
face to separate Quentin’s face with the background of the
image. I would also improve on the overall look of the image
as it looks more like a painting than a sketch/drawing.

12. Photography

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

14. Illustration

15. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how it looks relatively like the source
image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would like to improve the neatness of my
drawing as it is very crudely drawn and rough.

16. Initial Ideas

17. Mood board of inspiration

18. Idea Generation

19. Mood board of chosen idea

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

21. 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)
Audience
(Think about who you are targeting as your audience. Consider age, gender, class,
location and other characteristics which could define your audience.)
Deadline

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. 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?

24. 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?

25. 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?

26. Storyboards

27. Storyboards

28. Storyboards

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

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

31. Final Script
Final script goes here.

32. Digital Flat Plans