The document contains evaluations of various digital graphic projects completed by Taynie Gage. It includes critiques of images created including a cartoon panda, wolf, rotoscoped portraits, and images for a comic book. Areas for improvement are identified such as adding more shading, improving shapes, and including more details. A children's book proposal is also summarized, outlining dimensions, a story overview of Alice in Wonderland characters visiting the real world, intended format, deadline, target audience, and production methods using rotoscope techniques. Strengths identified are clear communication, while areas for development include expanding on the story and production details.

1. Digital Graphic
Narrative
Development
Taynie Gage

2. Shape Task

3. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how you are able to identify what the animal is as soon as you look at
the image due to the basic colours and shape. I also like the eyes of the panda
cartoon as I used the stroke tool to definition and the polygonal lasso tool to
create a glint in the eye.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did the project again I would use more shading to make the head, neck
and body look more defined as they all look like one at the moment. I would
create a more separate layers to make the panda look more detailed.

4. Shape task

5. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like how this image has more shading than the cartoon panda. I think the
shape of the eyes is good and the slight fur effect works well. In order to make
the image more eye catching, I used the difference in colours for the more
realistic view on the animal.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I think the general shape of the wolf could have been improved by warping the
basic shapes and I could have added more fur by using the colour range tool on
Photoshop. I could have used a wider range of colours and included smaller
bits of detail which could have improved the image in general.

6. Rotoscope

7. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I think the main thing I like about this rotoscope image is how I have created
the eyes. I made each separate part of the eyes on different layers and
coloured them all individually.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did the same image again, I would add more shading and definition to the
facial features especially around the nose.

8. Rotoscope

9. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I feel like I paid more attention to the smaller details within this image in this
task, I think by doing this I have drastically improved the look of the image and
feel like it looks much better than the animals I created during the shape task. By
adding small bits of detail like the cupids bow between the nose and mouth and
slight shading around the nose, I feel like the image has become a good example
of rotoscoping.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did this task again I would try to improve this such as the clothing and the hair
as I feel like don’t look quite as good as I would like. Some parts of the hair, such
as the curl which falls in front of his face, are a bit too jagged and should be
slightly softer. I would have also considered the choice of colour for the neck as
looking back on the image now, I feel it doesn’t fit very well with the colour of his
face.

10. Text Based

11. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the many different ways I am able to present the
text, with the spacing, fonts and colouring.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would ensure I tried a wider variety of techniques.
Then I would be certain I was able to apply these
techniques in the future.

12. Comic Book

13. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the cartoon look of the images that would work well in a comic book. I find that
the colours within the image look very exaggerated and unrealistic, this makes the
photographs look even more cartoon-like. The most realistic of my images is the film
Mean Girls as I only slightly changed the settings in the filter gallery on Photoshop.
The most surreal image is the screen grab of Pineapple Express, I drastically changed
the settings in the filter gallery and also changed the threshold settings to create more
shadows and definition.
What would you improve if you did it again?
If I did this task again I would make sure I had more variety within my images, I feel as
though three of my images are rather similar in terms of what I have done when
editing them. I would make one image have extreme adaptations to the original image
and have one with even more subtle changes than the image of Mean Girls.
I feel as though the image of World War Z would have looked good and worked well as
an exaggerated cartoon image and therefore I would have edited this even more to
create this look.

14. Photography

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

16. Illustration

17. Evaluation
What did you like about your image?
I like the look of different kinds of drawings however my
favourite kind is realistic drawings especially facial features. I like
the way you are able to make drawings look like what you are
thinking unlike with software on the computer where it is harder
to do so.
What would you improve if you did it again?
I would possibly draw something of a cartoon nature to show the
type of thing that would feature in a children's book.

18. Initial Ideas

19. Mood board of inspiration - Characters
Characters:
I chose a sketch drawing, a
film representation and a
cartoon version of Alice, The
Hatter and The White Rabbit
in order to create variety
within my images. This part
of the mood board gives me
ideas about the shaping of
the characters and the
colours that should be
included in my children's
book.

20. Mood board of inspiration: Setting
Setting:
Again as with the
characters section of the
mood board, I chose a
variety of different
versions of Alice in
Wonderland to give me
more ideas about what I
want to create.
I have taken most of my
inspiration from the
trees and ‘natural’
aspects of the scenery.

21. Mood board of inspiration: Text
Text:
I chose these particular font as
they all are serif font and therefore
are easier for young children to
read. I feel like most of the fonts I
have picked fit with the magical
theme of Alice in Wonderland and
would look good in a children's
book. None of these font are all
capitalised which is what I wanted
as children will often struggle with
reading capital letters.

22. Idea Generation

24. Mood board of chosen idea

25. Proposal
Dimensions
I have decided, my children's book will be 10 x 10 inches and will have around 8-10
pages.
Story Overview
My idea is to have a reverse wonderland in which Alice takes the other characters
back to the real world. As they have never experienced a world like this before,
they act how Alice did when she first went to Wonderland and are confused by
normal, everyday objects.
Export Format
PDF
Advantages: PDFs have the capability to compress large files which makes storing and
transferring a file much easer.
Disadvantages: PDFs can often be difficult to read on computer screens.

26. Deadline
20th March
Audience
My children's book will be aimed at 6-9 years olds as I believe 6 is the age the child
will start appreciating books and wanting to read them for themselves. The images
and text will be complex enough to slightly challenge them so they will be learning
but wont be too difficult so its not out of their age range. The social class I will be
targeting will be abc1 as their parents will be able to afford such items as books. I
believe although the book will be gender neutral, young girls may enjoy it more due
to the main character being female. The readers will most likely already know the
story of Alice in Wonderland and recognise the characters and therefore want to
read the book I will create.
Production Methods
Mainly, I will be using the rotoscope technique to create my characters and settings.
I will possibly be taking photographs and rotoscoping over the image in order to
create a the cartoon effect I am wanting for my children's book.
I am not going to make my illustrations too intricate or over complicated as I want to
keep my book rather simple but not incredibly simple as I want my audience to have
an interest.

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. 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?

30. 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?

31. Storyboards

32. Storyboards

33. Storyboards

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

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

36. Final Script
Final script goes here.

37. Digital Flat Plans