some time back, i did a drawing of suzumiya haruhi (albeit my own intepretation) using traditional inking and screentoning. The screentones are digital btw :P, since its much cheaper that way.

I am not going to spoil it for you if you haven’t read the novel (like why is she wearing something different). I have read up to “Live a Live” 「ライブアライブ」, which is in the 6th novel. It means I already know what’s going to happen in the movie, which is actually the 4th novel…. but yeah still cant wait for it to come here……..

I would just like to post a brochure i did for LSM1302, which is supposed to explain the process of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The grading for this was pretty screwed… the brochure is only 10% of CA and originality is 10% of that…. so basically anything i design is only worth 1% of CA… wtf -_-

I was intending to do some shit job of this using MS Word, but in the end I couldn’t stand how ugly it looked and fired up my illustrator once again. muahahaha.

The inside

The outside

Throughout this module, I have gone from zero to somewhat of an intermediate in illustrator. My photoshop skills have improved quite alot too, being able to create water, reflections and to do photomanipulations. But in the end, for any serious line work…. for me pencil + paper is still the best :) Inked with pen, 100% traditional, 0% digital :). Though the expressions look off and positioning looks wierd . LOL :P… I am still learning … a lifelong journey …

Beyond NM2208…. we shall see.

I really did not know what to do for the colour scheme and I felt that this was the best choice already. But i decided to tinker around….. and the more I tried the more combinations I felt that were good. It ended up being quite hard to make a choice…. so I made a giant grid to make things systematic. (Warning: Large file)

2nd iteration: (Warning: Large file)

And finally managed to come up with my colour scheme. I was abit hesitant with this idea at first due to the use of photography and in choosing a colour scheme I would be limited by the browns of the tea already. But it ends up I was wrong and I managed to get some nice colour schemes for my postcard. And I decided to go with the following

The brown tea/teapot on red background gives it a slight oriental feel. And the touch of green gives a refreshing feeling. The green text on the red background also screams out to people and helps to grab attention.

Some interesting stuff: Alot of photomanipulation was done to the photos to make them look like this. Here are the originals :P

I am so happy :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) wheeeeeeeee….. I have never realistically manipulate a photo before so this makes it my first.

And this is the one with motion blur,

Colin and I decided to go with the version with blur to enhance the effect of movement.

Meng again. This time round, I added some dark sand to underneath the rocks in the background. The reflections are changed too (Can you tell the difference? Lol). For this compared to the 2nd one, the reflections were painted in rather than using automatic effects. Personally I prefer this. I probably would not have time to add texture to the rocks (I tried and failed), as I need to redo assignment 5: colourful asia which did not address the assignment requirement.

Colin commented that the rocks look very nice. If your wondering how I did it, it was using Illustrator’s gradient mesh tool and coloured by myself. I do not know if there is a effect to do that for you though.

Zhixiong also commented that 8 would be a big risk if it was not readable when printed out. He also said that there is a lack of emotion in the story. (3) would be better with a facial expression instead of just a watch.

Motion blur would be added to some of the pictures to see if its a good effect to add.

This infographic would be used as an overview of the overall process of anime production probably in the middle or end of a book or magazine article and serves to give the reader a glance/summary of what he has read through.