Police Station Assignment

Final Project - Synopsis

The comic that I am planning to create will be a cute and simple story about a high-school-aged boy and girl who are attracted to each other. For this project I will begin the comic as chapter one. I may continue the comic afterwards on my own free time, however, for the purpose of this assignment, I will be primarily focused on creating detailed images with effective camera angles. I want it to be short, but good quality. I want my approach to these panels to be similar to the Japanese manga style. I would like to pay attention to the details of the setting and establish a mood through my drawings.

Brief synopsis:

Diana walks home by herself every day. One day she is alone in the woods playing flute. She is startled to see that a young man (named Lee) was apparently listening.His gaze compels her and she runs away with embarrassment.

A few days later she is walking home alone and two punks are messing with her. The same young man from before shows up for the rescue. She is shy but thankful. They walk together and talk.

This marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship and the end of chapter one.

Rotoscope

Figures in a short video were traced frame by frame using Photoshop onion skinning.

Module 4 Part 2

Module 4 Part 1

Module 4 Part 3

Donkey and Lee- It Wasn’t Meant To Be

There once was an only child named Lee, age 10, who loved to visit his best and only friend, a donkey, whom he liked to call Donkey. Donkey was property of the town zoo and lived in a fenced area all by himself to be used as a form of entertainment for visitors to see and pet. Lee would visit him often and they had become quite good friends. Donkey would listen to Lee’s talks about his hopes and dreams. Lee loved Donkey for his attentiveness, never interrupting as Lee loved to talk a lot. The boy was saddened that his only friend was always trapped in this zoo and that the two of them could never truly spend quality time with each other. Lee himself felt as if he was trapped in his home. No friends to play with, only Donkey to listen to him talk. Lee decided that the only way for him and Donkey to be free would be to run away together.

One night, when the town was asleep, Lee sneaked out of his house, wandering through the streets until he reached the zoo. Hopping the fence, he saw Donkey sound asleep. Having a small body, he carefully squeezed into Donkey’s cage, woke him, and together they dug a hole into the ground under the fence of the zoo until they were both out. Lee brought Donkey home and together they snuck into a small fishing boat that Lee’s father enjoys on the weekends.

They embarked on a great adventure to find freedom. Little did Lee know, the sea is a very dangerous place. A few hours into their journey, dark clouds began to roll in. Thunder could be heard and lightning was soon visible. Rain was pouring and the waves were powerful. The little fishing boat was lifted and lowered and pushed and pulled and poor Lee was flung from the boat into the raging sea. Donkey on the other hand had all four of his legs pointing out in all directions of the boat hanging on for dear life.

The storm settled, and Donkey was exhausted. He stood on the boat looking down into the water as if his friend would come back. Donkey was sad, lonely and afraid. He decided to get some rest and fell asleep.

He woke up a few hours later to find himself on the shore of a public beach. Beach-goers gazed at him as he shyly stared back at them. A lifeguard called a local zoo to inform them of the find and to see if they would like to take the donkey with them. The zoo was happy to accept the donkey. They quickly picked him up and brought him to the zoo and placed him in a fenced area so that people could come and look at him and pet him if they’d like. Donkey was yet again stuck in a zoo, all alone, with no family or friends. It was then that he realized that his life was meant to be in captivity. Donkey will never be free.

Steranko's Narrative Theory

This article talks and compares different forms of graphic storytelling such as comics, animation, film, and compares them with each other. Steranko mentions the different types of shots/angles involved in storyboarding. An interesting part is when he is comparing different arrangements of the same three shots and how they tell different stories depending on how they are arranged.

The most interesting part about this reading, in my opinion, was when Steranko talks about how he plays certain music to match the art he is creating in order for him to get inspiration. I really like that idea and I'm going to try to do that to see if it will work for me.

He gives good advice on making graphic stories. The last thing he mentions is really interesting. He says that a technique he uses in his storytelling is to actually pretend that he is the character/in the situation himself and then tell the story from that perspective.