illustration and visual narrative Project 2 | Decisive Moment Poster

14/04/21 - 26/05/21 (Week3-Week9)

Heng Yuan Wei | 0347739

Illustration and Visual Narrative | B' in Creative Media
Project 2 

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INstRuction 

Visual Research 

The narrative that I have chosen is Stranger Things, the scene when Eleven saved Mike from jumping the cliff by using her power(click here to watch a short clip of the scene). The reason why i features Eleven (El) is because she is one of the main protagonists of Stranger Things. Eleven was kidnapped and raised in Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on for her inherited psychokinetic abilities. After escaping the lab, she was found by Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. Then, slowly discovered her power to go against her enemy (Demogorgon)

Demogorgons are predatory creatures originating from the Upside Down and one of the Main Antagonist in stranger things along with the the mind flayer . All Demogorgons encountered thus far are assumed to obey the mind flayer, and make up part of his hive mind. Under his influence, Demogorgons are murderous, violent and have limited intelligence.  

• Character featured: eleven nose bleeding (iconic scene when she use her power) and shadow monster, also known as mind flayer. 

Fig 1.0 Mind Flayer or Shadow Monster

I will also include the lightning on my GIF as it comes with the Mind Flayer in the Upside Down world, like below:

Fig 1.1 Mind Flayer or Shadow Monster and lightning

                        

Fig 1.2 eleven from GIPHY

Fig 1.3 Stranger Things Logo

Idea exploration

First, I sketched on procreate:

Fig 1.4 Sketches

Then, I proceed to Adobe Illustrator to draw a minimalist illustration by using pen tool:

Fig 1.5 Vector in Progress

Fig 1.6 all the Layer of creating eleven

Fig 1.7 Mind Flayer/Shadow Monster

To create the logo by myself, I search some Youtube Tutorial (click to watch the tutorial) to make it.

Font: Benguiat

Color text: #961115

Fig 1.8 Stranger Things Logo

Fig 1.9 all the layer of the logo

Final Outcome of the Poster（vector):

Fig 2.0 Final Vector Poster

After finishing the Vector Poster, I started animating it by using After Effect:

Fig 2.1 animating on AE

I layer mask the blood and use the function of mask expansion to make it looks like bleeding:

Fig 2.2 mask expansion tool 

Fig 2.3 Eleven Nose Bleeding

Fig 2.4 changing the Opacity of the lightning

Fig 2.5 changing the Scale of the Mind Flayer/Shadow Monster

I also select all movement and click F9(easy ease) to make everything smoother

Fig 2.6 stopwatch

Final Animated Poster：

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REFLECTION

This was quite a wonderful experience for me to make a vector artwork as I have never done a movie or series character before, but I quite enjoy at the time when doing it, like I finally have an excuse to do it haha. I was confuse how to create a nose without really drawing out a whole real nose (👃🏻this) but then I realised I can use the shadow to create it (design principle:black&white space). By the way, I can also improve my adobe illustration skill! At the stage of animating the poster, I was about to use Photoshop to complete it but I found it very annoying and have little function for animation so I gave up on doing it at Photoshop, I jumped to After Effect to complete it which is way more faster as I have done several animated social media posts during my diploma internship. Also, I added some short clips (reference or details of my animated poster) to GIPHY to make my E-portfolio more easy for our lecturers to review.