This document summarizes the stages of a digital graphic narrative development project. It includes evaluations of images created at different stages including a shape task, rotocope, text-based, and comic book exercises. For the shape task, the creator liked the simplicity and friendliness of the image but would add more texture. For the rotocope, the creator liked the likeness to Kanye West and use of color but would add more detail. The comic book evaluations note liking the retention of original features while looking cartoony, and suggest experimenting more with abstraction and color. Strengths and areas for improvement are identified for proposal elements like dimensions, story outline, format, and production methods.

1. Digital Graphic Narrative
Development
name

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
Something that I like about my image is how simplistic it actually is, I feel that the fact is is quite
simplistic and friendly would mean that it would fit quite well in a children's book among his
other friendly characters. Something else that I like about the image is how the nose of the mole
has been done as it looks as if it has some depth to it due to the shading and colours. Something
else that I like about this image is the background, I feel that it would be nice and appealing to
children as it sets a nice scene for the mole to be in. I also like the little bits of texture around the
mole as it adds a little bit of detail to the image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to do this image again I would try and add a bit of texture to the mole to make him look a
little bit furry and more appealing to kids. Something else which I would do to improve my image
is add more texture to the soil underneath the mole to make it look more like he is coming out of
the mole hill. Something else I would do to to improve this image is try and make the grass look
more like grass.

4. Rotoscope

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
Something that I like about this image is that it actually resembles Kanye West quite a lot.
Something else I like about this image is the colours that have been used as I feel that they all
work quite well with each other. For instance the colours in the glasses, this is not how they were
on the original image but I decided to add my own touch to the image, something else that I like
about the glasses is that they are transparent and look how glasses would look in real life.
Something else that I like about this image is the little about of shading that I have used, as this
image is quite simplistic I feel that if I added too much shading to the face it would take away
from the simplistic nature of the image, but I feel I have shaded it just enough to bring out the
features in his face such as his nose.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I were to it again I feel that I would try to add more texture to the suit and the subtle details in
that I didn’t add in when I was creating the actual image, I fell that if I was to do it again I might
try and make the image a lot more complex and add a lot more shading to the face and body.

6. Rotoscope

7. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I feel like this image worked out really well, the things that I like about this image is the amount of
detail that I have tried to add in on his face as I feel the amount of time that I have put into it has
paid off. Something that I like on this image the amount of shading that I have done on his face as
I feel that it brings out all his features and distinguishes depth, for instance in his eyes as it shows
the depth of them and brings them out. Something else that I like about the image I have
produced is the nose area as even though I have not drawn out the nose the shading and
shadows brings out the nose.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to do this image again I think I would use the colour select tool to try and add some
definition to the hair. Something else that I would do if I were to do it again would be to try and
add a lot more shading to the shirt to try and make it look more realistic. Something else that I
would do is try to add a background to the picture as I feel this would really make the picture look
a lot better.

8. Text Based

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

10. Comic Book

11. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
Something that I like about my images is that they all retain a lot of the pictures original features
but look very cartoony at the same time. An image that I like out of the set of 3 in particular is the
one on the right from Saving Private Ryan, the reason that I like this one the most is because it is
the most abstract but still retains a lot of its original features and has a sense of depth due to the
shadows that I enhanced using the threshold. Something I like about the top image is that it still
looks very realistic and the changes are quite subtle, the reason for this is the threshold as it has
recovered a lot of the features that were lost such as the eyes and the definition in the hair when
I put the cut out filter over the original image.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I was to do it again I think I would try and experiment a lot more with it, for instance I would try
going very abstract so that not a lot of the edges were definable, but I would try and make it so
you still understood what the image was. Something else which I would try and do is play around
with the colours a lot more, for instance changing the hue and saturation to try and make the
images look a lot more comic book like.

12. Comic Book
This is a more experimental image that I did
after I produced my initial 3, I have tried to go
for a more abstract look with this one

13. Photography

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

15. Illustration

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

17. Initial Ideas

18. Mood board of inspiration

19. Idea Generation

20. Mood board of chosen idea

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

22. 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)

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. 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?

26. 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?

27. Storyboards

28. Storyboards

29. Storyboards

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

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

32. Final Script
Final script goes here.

33. Digital Flat Plans