Illustration & Visual Narrative - Task 3
(Week 10- Week 14)
Ataka Lukman Hamzah / 0350012
BDCM / Illustration & Visual Narrative
Task 3
INSTRUCTIONS
So for the final project, we are expected to create a webtoon using
Illustrator and animate it. The theme of this year's webtoon is horror. So, I
started off by thinking of horror stories that can be made into a webtoon. The
process of finding the right story is a bit long, and at last, I decided to
ask my family members to tell their stories or stories that they have heard.
Whereat the end I found the right one.
My story is a combination of two different stories, the first part is a ghost
in the bathroom peaking inside one of my sister's friends. The other part is
my sister's friend was woken up by the ghost. Bed shaking and the ghost in
front of him telling him to wake up. So I combined both the stories, which
results in this story:
STORY
Dimas and Aditya went back to their room after another exhausting day at
boarding school. “Man, I’m drained,” said Dimas. “You still down to continue
the audiobook?” asked Aditya. “Hell yeah. I couldn’t pass up Stephen King,”
replied Dimas. Both boys sat on the couch, turned on their audio player, and
continued listening to Stephen King’s “The Shining”. They listened for
hours, not paying attention to time. It’s almost midnight. “Man, I’m getting
goosebumps,” said Dimas. “Yeah, this might be the scariest book King has
ever written,” commented Aditya. Just as the suspense from the book was
building up, both boys heard a loud creaking of floorboards outside their
room. It was odd because no one was allowed to wander in the halls at this
time. “Yo, what was that? Did you hear that?” asked Dimas. “It’s probably
just the wind,” replied Aditya. Dimas panicked. “Yo, yo turn it off dude
this is getting scary.” “HAHA ok, we have another school day tomorrow
anyway,” Aditya agreed.
The boys fell asleep almost immediately, too tired to worry about the weird
noise earlier. Three hours later, Aditya awakened as he needed to go to the
bathroom. Just as he was about to turn the doorknob to go outside, Aditya
got frightened and turned around to wake Dimas. “Dim, I need to go to the
bathroom but I’m too scared to go alone,” said Aditya while shaking Dimas.
Dimas groaned. “Ugh, don’t be a wimp. The bathroom is just outside our
room,” said Dimas weakly. Aditya let out a sigh and gave up convincing his
friend. He opened the door of his room, looked around to see no one in the
halls. He entered the bathroom and did his business. While washing his
hands, Aditya looked at his reflection in the mirror. His eye bags were dark
and droopy. Attempting to freshen himself, he splashed water onto his face.
As he lifted his head from the sink, in the mirror behind his reflection, he
saw the head of someone peeking inside. Adit turned around in a flash.
“Who’s there?” he called out. But as he turned around to face the door,
there was no one there. Walking nervously to the door, Adit called out
again. No response. He ran back to his room and shut the door. He looked
over to Dimas’ bed. Dimas was sound asleep and didn't move an inch. It
couldn’t be Dimas in the bathroom. “It must have been my imagination,”
Aditya said to himself. Feeling a little bit relieved, he decided to go back
to sleep.
Shortly after closing his eyes, he felt his bed shake. All of a sudden, he
felt someone pull his blanket. “Bangun bang, bangun.” His eyes immediately
flew open and right in front of him kneeled a little boy, smiling eerily.
Adit jumped out of bed and screamed at the top of his lungs. He ran straight
for the door as fast as he could, grabbing his cell phone on the way.
Without looking back, he turned on his cell phone to dial Dimas. Just as he
was about to hit the call button, a text message appeared. It read “I will
arrive shortly, make sure you unlock the door for me”. It was from Dimas.
Adit immediately came to a halt. “What? What does he mean he’ll arrive
shortly?” he asked himself. With adrenaline still rushing through his body,
he tried to remember last night’s events and what just happened. Dimas was
with him last night. What does this text mean?
PROGRESSION
After finishing up the story, I decided to create an events timeline to start
the webtoon. For me, it would be easier to determine the flow of the story
later on in the creation of the webtoon.
Scene 1
- Boarding School
- Dimas & Aditya
- Walking to room
Scene 2
- Room
- Listening to audibook
- show audiobook
scene 3
- hallway (creak, stomp)
- talking
- talking
- sleep
scene 4
- adit wakeup
- ask dimas to accompany
- no answer
- to toiliet
scene 5
- blank (doing his business)
- wash hands
- ghost appear on the mirror
- frigthened
- talk
- back to room
scene 6
- sleep
- blank (couple hours)
scene 7
- bed shake
- adit wakes up
- sees boy figure
- shocked
- take cellphone
- run
- dimas chat adit
- adit surprise
After creating this timeline, I a have a review session with Ms. Anis and Ms.
Jennifer, they reviewed my story. They approved of it, however, there are some
changes that could be done to connect the story better. Ms. Anis suggested I
create a scenario where the ghost would come for them if the story of the boy
listened during a full moon. I understand what Ms. Anis is trying to say so I
implement her suggestion to my story.
From here, I proceed to create the sketch for my webtoon based on the event
timeline that I have created.
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| Fig 1.1: Sketches |
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| Fig 1.2: Sketches 2 |
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| Fig 1.3: Digitized Sketch |
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| Fig 1.4: Digitized Sketch |
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| Fig 1.5: Final Webtoon draft |
After finishing the webtoon, I published it to webtoon. Before publishing it,
we need to give a thumbnail for the chapter. Back again to the decisive
moment, from here I chose the best that could go well with the description of
the webtoon. So I chose the panel where Dimas is half awake looking at the boy
figure.
Then after choosing the thumbnail the webtoon is uploaded. Then from here, I
moved on to make the animation for the webtoon. Before moving it into After
Effects, I created new files for each of the pages. This will make things
easier to sort out. For example, eyes, mouth, or any details.
Final Outcome
Webtoon Link:
FEEDBACK
To change some parts of the story to give it more of a connection in between events.
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