Final Project / Cinemagraphs: Self-Titled

||  Shim Yi Xun
||  Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
||  0363292

Final Project / Cinemagraphs: Self-Titled

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INSTRUCTION

Theme: SELF-TITLED

Your final task consists of integrating the challenges from 3 different modules;

You will bring together the knowledge and skills acquired from three different modules: Typography, Illustration & Visual Narrative, and Digital Imaging & Photography. Your goal is to create an integrated poster that showcases your abilities in each of these areas. You will use a custom font you've created (Typo), incorporate a self-portrait (DPI), and weave a related motive (IVN) through the font and image, resulting in a visually compelling and conceptually rich poster.

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Part 1:
Idea Development

Write a biography about yourself.

I'm Shim Yi Xun, currently 19 yo, a student from BDCM. I usually spend time on ACGN, it's a comfort zone for me to take a rest when I wanna escape from reality. I also enjoy art and design, but compared to fine art, I prefer digital more, so that's the reason why I'm here taking the Creative Media course.

Write a statement about your work.

With the subject "self-titled", I wanna convey my personality. I think I have an average look, but I have a creative and imaginative mind. This inspired me to use a colourful tone illustration as my background which represents my inner world. The tone of my self-portrait will be black & white, to make a contrast between the real-life me and inner me.

For the theme of this project, I decided to use a new style I have never tried it before. So this would be a big challenge for me. I hope I can breakthrough myself through this opportunity.

MOODBOARD:

Part 2:
Design Direction

SKETCH:

DIGITAL POSTER PROGRESS:

Take a photo of myself. After that import the photo into PS.
Crop me out and adjust the colour tone.

I browsed for pictures of the eye and torn paper which could be matched together. Then import into PS, cropping out, blending them both and adjusting the colour tone.

I threw the photo elements into Ai when completed. Before starting to do the illustration part, I roughly arrange my layout just in case to ensure my concept can work and I won't get off track when I'm doing work.

Fill in the illustration part.

Lastly is the typography part. The font of my name is the font that I created by myself in the Typography class, I gave it a little distortion so it wouldn't look so rigid.

Part 3:
Execution and Post Production

Title: YiShim

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I want to contrast real life and the inner world, so I decided to use illustration style to represent my inner world. 
Therefore, I came up with the idea that there would be an eye from the real world looking into my inner world, like a feeling of breaking through dimensions. Plus, the illustrations all represent some of my favourite things and hobbies.

FINAL POSTER:

Part 4:
SUBMISSION

FINAL VIDEO LINK: 
https://youtube.com/shorts/QS8nnRo4Xzc

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  Feedback  

 

From Mr. Fauzi (DPI):

The artist's statements and the sketches look good. But something to note is the typography part, it seems less and you should add more to it. Maybe you can write your name or something.

From Mr. Hafiz (IVN):

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  Reflection  

The theme of this project seems easy and free, but not at all. Sometimes being too free is not a good thing, on the contrary, it may make one confused about where to start. This was a challenging task as it required me to consider what I wanted to showcase as well as the overall harmony and coherence of all three modules. All I can do is take it one step at a time and hope everything goes well (Gambling is not a good behaviour, but life is essentially a gamble).

Fortunately, in this project, I tried a new style that I'd never tried before and it was a great opportunity for me.  Additionally, my familiarity with Adobe software is a prerequisite for using them, allowing me to complete my work more efficiently and keep absorbing new skills and experiences.