The document provides details on Ross Hardman's digital graphic narrative development project, including evaluations of images he created of an alligator, shark, and names in different styles, as well as proposals and feedback for a digital book telling the story of Robin Hood. The project utilizes techniques like rotoscoping, effects, and photography to create the images and evaluate strengths and areas for improvement. Feedback focused on adding more details, explanations, and annotations to ideas, characters, and chosen techniques.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
Ross Hardman

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
The gradient change on most of the spikes on the alligators back created a good texture and the
colour of the alligators body as I felt it was very close to the actual colour of one, these are the
only real positives that I take from this bit of work as ill explain below.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id use a simpler image for my work as I found this one very difficult to make recognisable, I would
try to make the tail look more aesthetically pleasing to the eye, as well as the mouth and legs, I
would've also liked to change the background but with the work on the spikes I did not have time
too.

4. Shape Task

5. Rotoscope

6. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I liked the look of my sharks body and fins as I though the colour scheme and proportions look
aesthetically pleasing to the eye, I also like the background that I created for the work as it looks
like the ocean is getting darker as the shark goes deeper into the water as well as the additions of
the bubbles and seaweed.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did it again I would aim to improve the mouth and gills of the shark and add texture to the
sharks body, I would also add more too the background of the image such as fish or other forms
of sea life, I feel like the background is too empty, also I would try to rotoscope the whole image
as apposed to just the fins, gills , tail and mouth.

7. Rotoscope

8. Text Based

9. Text Based

10. Text Based

11. Text Based

12. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I really like the CM Punk clipping mask effect used on the second image and the tracking and
leading tool, the CM Punk clipping mask effect worked perfectly and I gained the desired effect
that I was looking for, this is down to the tracking and leading tool making it possible to push the
letters of my name closer together so I could get the image of CM Punk to look coherent.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id use less effects on my first set of names if I could do it again as the last one doesn’t look
aesthetically pleasing on the eye.

13. Comic Book

14. Comic Book

15. Comic Book

16. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the effect and process that I used to gain such effect because it is simple yet creates a very
neat and abstract effect just like a comic book, my first image of Triple H is perfect for this very
reason as it captures the image perfectly but the image also has the abstract feel as the water
that is being spat out in my image looks almost like flames.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did it again I would probably use more abstract and surreal imagery to create an even more
interesting image effect but otherwise I think the effects work just how they were intended.

17. Photography

18. Photography

19. Photography

20. Photography

21. Evaluation
What did you like about your images?
I liked the fact that with photography you can get good real life crisp images in almost no time to
use in a project, these images took 30 minutes to gather and aim to capture the emotions of
loneliness happiness sadness and excitement.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id change the sadness and excitement images in order to get a better look on the bullies face and
less blur on the shot of me jumping.

22. Illustration

23. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
Not much as I don’t have good illustration skills but I think I did better than I expected, especially
with the CM Punk logo on the shirt.
What would you improve if you did it again?
Id add more detail to the T-shirt and add shading and textures to the shirt, beard and hair of my
image.

24. Initial Ideas

25. Mood board of inspiration

26. Robin Hood
Title: Adventures of Robin Hood
Traditional tale of Robin Hood.
Characters:
Robin Hood
Little John
Friar Tuck
King John
Sheriff of Nottingham
Guy of Gisbourne
Richard

27. Robin Hood

28. Maid Marian

29. Little John

30. Friar Tuck

31. Sheriff of Nottingham

32. Guy of Gisbourne

33. Prince John

34. King Richard

35. Proposal
Dimensions
In my book il be aiming to make around 24-28 pages with text on the left hand page
and my images on the right, I will aim to create a page size of around 1500cm by
900cm
Story Overview
Paul is captured whilst returning from ECW, so Vince takes his power which allows him
to oppress the people of ECW , so Punk gathers together a gang to help stop Vinces
oppression, he recruits the help of Bill and to help defeat Vinces henchmen Kane and
HHH whilst trying to win back ECW.
Export Format
PDF
Advantages: Fast, easy and simple to produce.
Disadvantages: Sizing problems.

36. Deadline
18th December 2014
Audience
The age for my book will be aimed at 4-7 year olds so there will be focus on images
but also a fair amount of text will be written for this book.
The gender audience for this piece would hopefully be either but I feel that this
particular tale would attract blokes rather than women due to its action and themes
of a man chasing a woman.
Production Methods
To produce my pages I am going too use images as my backgrounds and use
rotoscoping as for my foreground details and characters so I can spend time on
detail such as textures and facial expressions etc.

37. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
The proposal is detailed and explains clearly what
digital graphic techniques will be used and how
they will be used in the book.
Add more detail to the advantages/disadvantages
on PDF section, more detail could also be added to
the audience section such as where they might live
and class etc.
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
It shows a mood board for each character and fonts
which could be used for each one, the mind map
shows how many words should be used on each
page for each age group.
More annotation could be added to explain thought
processes on each character and what graphics
technique you will use for them, annotate fonts to
explain why you will be using them or not using
them and how they relate to your story.

38. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
Your proposal explains how you are going to
structure your work quite well. It also explains it
also tells the story of ‘Robin Hood quite well’
I think that you could explain things in a bit more
detail. Say why you think what you have told us.
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
You have a very strong mood board, which is very
well set out and easy to read. I also like the way in
which you have made individual slides for each
character. I also like how you have included a good
range of fonts.
You could put some annotating to go with the
images. Could also say why you have chosen them
images.

39. What are the strengths of the proposal? What areas of the proposal need further work?
You have talked about the methods you are going
to use in detail which makes it clear.
You need to add in a deadline date and you could
talk about whether parents would want to buy this
book for their children and why.
What are the strengths of the idea generation? What areas of idea generation could have been
further developed?
There is a mood board for each character and the
mind map shows lots of ideas.
You could have annotated the mind maps and
talked about each of the characters and how you
would illustrate them.

40. Feedback Summary
Sum up your feedback.
My feedback is all linked with me having more negatives than positives which I can agree
with most of them.
Which parts of your feedback do you agree with and why?
The fact I should annotate my image mood boards as they are just a collection of images
with a title and no real reason behind it.
Which parts of your feedback do you disagree with and why?
Having to annotate my mind maps…as I don’t think anyone has annotated their mind
maps.

41. Storyboards

42. Original Script
There are too many tales of Robin Hood for there to be one definite script.

43. Final Script
Once upon a time in a land not so far from here, the evil Vince McMahon had
taken over the WWE universe, along with his henchmen Triple H and Kane.
Vince’s competition Paul Heyman had been locked away in ECW Prison, leaving
all the power to him.
Nobody could stand up to Vince as him and his men took all their stuff by force.
Except two men, CM Hood and Little Bill, friends of Paul, and Vince’s enemies!
Hood and Bill looked out over the universe treetops, they heard the noise of a
car coming through the forest.
“Look Hood, that’s Kanes car”