My Event: A Prom for Supernatural Creatures

— The 4 Illustrated Items —

I think I went a little crazy working on this assignment.

Illustrated Item #1: Gif E-Invite (for humans), Physical Invitation Card (for supernaturals)

“Come to prom. Please.” – Spelltown Student Council

*Note: Stay for around 10-20 seconds on this image! 🙂

In an ideal situation in a supernatural junior college, they would probably receive an physical piece of paper with moving images like the newspapers/howler in the Harry Potter books. The next best thing to replicate that effect is probably a gif…

 

Illustrated Item #2: Prom King Poster

Illustrated Item #3: Prom Queen Poster

Illustrated Item #4: Sticker Set (Prom Favour)

“We’ve got all sorts of clubs – there’s something for everyone!”

 

— Mock-Ups —

Item #1: E-Invite (for humans) / Moving Physical Invite (for supernaturals)

(I imposed it to do a mock-up for how a student might receive the invite!) 

Item #2: Prom King Poster

Item #3: Prom Queen Poster

Item #4: Stickers (Prom Favour)

— Process —

I wanted to go with a very colorful/striking palette for this project!

In the previous post, I started with the stickers first to determine a narrative and look and feel for the rest of the assets (invites + 2 posters). Decided on a more comic book style and I was quite determined to illustrate as much as I can over the different assets so that they would all provide a different narrative over the different medias to tell more about the event!

I started the Ken poster with Ken as a soft, fluffy boy (but gave him some fierce after Lisa said he wasn’t intimidating enough woops). I struggled with his ferocity quite abit…

 

Then there’s Circe the witch!

 

Ken and Circe have come very far indeed…

Original Thumbnails

I did the e-invite last even though it was the first thing I planned for in the series of assets. The e-invite was really fun! But also a pain because there were so many issues!

Edited comp from thumbnail (to fit square)

Invert checks

Still image

At this point, I already finished the poster and stickers so I already had a look I wanted to work off on, but I quickly realised that I’ll have to pay the price in linework if I wanted to add more animated elements. 🙁

I reduced the lines and number of tones to put the characters more in place with the background characters of both posters, but hopefully still in line with the look of the other assets.

COMEEEEE TO PROMMMMMMM… COMEEEEEEEEEEE

I initially wanted to use Live2D and break down the characters by body parts but Live2D crashed my PC multiple times… so I guess I’ll have to settle for Adobe’s animation timeline. This gif is 100+++ of layers and I had a major brainfart at some parts when I couldn’t find the layers.

I did a little ref to the standard animation for seaweed cycle for his wriggly tail hehe.

The pink demon’s skin didn’t export well – noooo!!! D:

There was also another issue with export because there were so many colors. So the colors exported all over the place and I had to try a few different settings. Thankfully I had some foresight to do the invite on a much smaller file (1000 x 1000 px) so that I could keep it a pretty small file and not have to deal with sizing issues – but still have decent quality to the illustrations eep. BUT ANYWAY, IT WAS FUN WORKING ON MOVING THINGS.

I did wish I have more time to bomb on paying more attention to color and linework and making them more consistent – but overall I was super happy working on this project since it was so fun!

— Links —

Assignment 3: Part 1 (Week 11-12 Progress): https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/laum0005/illustration-for-designers-assignment-3-week-11-12-progress/

Gallery of research and past works: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/laum0005/illustration-for-designers-gallery-academic-blog/