Illustration & Visual Narrative - Task 3: Animated Composition

Illustration & Visual Narrative - Task 3: Animated Composition

WEEK 11-10 (11.06.2025 - 25.06.2025)

Felice Lee (0381272)

Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media - Taylor University

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INSTRUCTION

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TASK 3

Theme: Genesis - The Future (The Fusion of Tech & Art). Assignment also submission for honor competition.

1. Mood board

2. SKETCH

From this sketch, I have the idea wanted to create a city in the future world, where building is floating, sun is mad by human, flying cars, and the human figure standing in the middle lonely in the chaos city. I also used golden ratio for this sketch.

3. ILLUSTRATION

Element placement (composition)

In this, Illustration I have a cylindrical elements that is suitable with the golden ration grid. With the help of grid, I arrange my elements cautiously, to make them look visually appealing.

Next, I added some details to the elements.

Moving on, I enhance the atmosphere by adding glow, gradient, and some background elements like flying cars, flying city, and hologram cloud. Lat but not least, I put a honor talent text logo in my artwork for submission. Illustration done !

4. ANIMATION

Before I start to animate, I export my Ai file to Psd file so I can merge unused layers for animation also I can section my elements and layers. After that, I can import my psd file to after effect to start animating.

In this illustration, I have so many layers that I want to animate since I wanna make the car, cloud, and mechanical move 1 by 1, so i separate all of them in layer per layer.

Here is the effect I use to animate in after effects :

• layers of car - Position (left & right).
• layers of cloud - Position (left & right).
• layers of  2 front wing mechanic - Puppet, mesh, deform, rotation.
• layers of  cylindrical machine - Puppet, mesh, deform, rotation.
• layers of flying city - Position (up & down).
• silhouette - Puppet, mesh, deform.
• pole - Puppet, mesh, deform. 
• shine around the circle - Scale, rotation.
• sunshine - Opacity.  

5. FINAL OUTCOME

Animation

Illustration

Accessories

Template provided by Honor

6. RATIONALE 

This artwork is a vector digital illustration in a stylized cinematic style, created using Adobe Illustrator for the genesis theme. It depicts the future world that is dominated entirely by humanmade stuff and machines. The world is surrounded by flying cars, high rise building, flying city, humanmade sun, hectic environment, and hologram cloud. 

At the center a lonely figure symbolizing the cold society in future, not much human connection. People no longer need each other, but instead live independently with the help of machines and AI. The muted colors of sky and buildings reflect the soulless city. 

 The striking spiral circular machine is the artificial sun. In this future,  each city will have their own sun, eliminating the need of a real sun. This shift represents humanity’s desire 

to take over full control, even over nature.

Overall, the illustration is a conceptual projection of a possible future  where the worlds are full with technologies. This is created for the “HONOR Talents” competition that which supports digital creativity through the theme of genesis

 

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TECHNIQUE APPLIED

In this project, I applied so many effects in it. For illustration, I used the gradient, glow, and blur effects. I like to put gradient in the machine near the sunshine to make it not flat, and show where the light reflect. Glow and blur were used to create that shining and light effect for the sun. For the animation, I mostly used the effects in after effects that I learned from tutorial such as : Puppet, position, opacity, scale, mesh, deform ,etc. Lastly, I also learn about clipping mask and smart object in photoshop, by this technique, I could easily insert my illustration to the accessories template given by honor.

REFLECTION

What did you like the most in this assignment?

This is the most enjoyable assignment I've ever go through, each progress is so fun, I also get to choose to create something related to future since I have a lot of what if's in my thoughts about future, and I can pour that idea into my artwork. I also enjoy animating this so much, the outcome really satisfied me.

What can be improved based on your submission?

Based on my submission, I think I could improve more on the color palette, I consulted to Mr. Fitri and he said that the color is okay, but the thing is its a little bit too basic since they are neighbor color (yellow, green, blue, purple).