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"Yeo Jing Yee" is my name
seventeen is my age
Nanyang Polytechic is my school
Motion Graphic & Broadcast Design is my full-time diploma course
Graphic design is my interest
Typography is my favourite design style
Monday, June 30, 2008
10:56 PM
Inner landscape [alter state of mind]
Robert Sabuda
He is a well-known pop-up book artist and also a paper engineer. He started his drawing since young and his bedroom was a constant whirlwind of pencil shavings, drippy paint brushes and mounds of paper scraps. When he graduated from Pratt Institute in New York City, he began to work with very small jobs illustrating coloring books. His jobs led to other book projects and slowly discovered that he was a children's book illustrator. He began to write his own stories and illustrate those as well. Picture books were wonderful but he always hoped that one day he could create a pop-up book, too. So he pulled out his old pop-up books and taught himself how to make even better ones as a grown up. Now his best known pop-up books are The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the recent work The Chronicles of Narnia.
Edward GoreyHe was a writer and artist well-known for his ghastly atmosphere like feel, a symbol of death illustrated books. Not only horror illustrated books, he also draw children's books. However Gorey's books were popular with children, he did not associate with children much and had no particular fondness for them.
One of his famous works wasThe Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely demise in rhyming dactylic couplets, such as "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears." The book takes the reader through the complete alphabet, accompanied by Gorey's black and white illustrations.
My concepts:
I choose fourth central message "The emperor wears his invisible clothes walking proudly in his kingdom capital full of dogs and monkeys." for this assignment. The first thing that came into my mind was the fairytale story "The Emperor's New Clothes". A vain emperor being taken advantage by two scoundrels. In the end, got embarrassed among the whole city without any clothes which is naked. I realized this story actually can be fitted in the central message with some more alterations. Dogs were always classified as loyal and monkeys were classified as mischievous. I decided to combine the story and these 2 animals together. I changed the emperor to a cunning fox. A fox always does things cunning in order to get its goal. This time it wanted to be the king of the whole animal kingdom. In order to strive for its goal, it decided to disguise itself as a special animal with a combined layer of tiger skin and lion fur which are the kings of animal kingdom so that to let all the animals thought that it is more powerful than the lion and tiger.
My own central messege for this story:
" Support authentic "
Synopsis outlining mood / Tone pace / Key moments
Fake can never real. A lie cannot be the truth as it will be revealed one day. It has a kind of royal feel to the character at the beginning of the story but in the end, it shows a sense of embarrassment and funny. The tone pace will be slow to show more sense of royalty in that character and to the end, it will be in fast pace. The key moment will be when the animals were laughing at the "emperor".
5 sets of thumbnails sketches:
Set 01
Set 02
Set 03
Set 04
Set 05
Artistic Influences:
Im influenced by Edward Gorey's drawing. His drawings are almost all in black and white style.He had used black ink pen strokes to complete every horror workpiece, watercolor, and preliminary pencil illustrations for children's books of his own creation. I could maybe drawn in a simple way using simple black ink pen strokes.
Im also influenced by Robert Sabuda's cartoon like drawing. His cute drawings give the audience a lively mood and a urge to continue reading his pop-up books. I think most of his pop-up books are all fairytale stories. I could maybe made my whole story in a fairytale like style if possible.