In week 10 of storytelling script to screen I did some more work on my production bible since I had recently completed some turnaround and colour ways sheets for the supporting characters in the story.
I used my personal mac as I had opened my production bible in the more up to date version of Indesign meaning it wouldn't work in the older version that the University has. I set to work importing the work into the bible and I took the time to write down the character descriptions from the sheet answering what questions I could then added in the pose sheets much like Joseph's and Elise's. I then added the character height sheet on a double page in the bible and showed it to Chris who liked the idea of incorperating head heights into the size sheet. I even added the blueprints, concept art and style frame for the shoe shop.
This was the time to show Annabeth my current progress on the production bible and she was impressed with the way it was coming on. I asked for a second opinion on my empty spaces in the sections about Elise and she suggested perhaps including a small description of the colour pallets for Elise's day dress. This I felt was a good suggestion as was having the blue prints on double pages and then the concept art/styleframes on the next page which I decided to follow. I would've continued further but I then did some work on my Animation 102 short story.
Over the last week I set to work on doing a style frame that I had sketched for the Opera Garniers stage, this was what I intended to use for the cover of my bible and feature length novel. I did the frame in water colour paints as this was the medium I was using for my style frames to fit the 19th century theme. In terms of the colours I studied my research images of the opera house, and the colours mainly consisted of red, yellow, gold and black. This was communicated into the style frame and shadowing.
This was then scanned into Photoshop and enhanced using the paint daubs filter in the gallery. I altered the curves to bring out the shadows and colours in the piece.
The piece looked more realistic in terms of the lighting and the presentation of the theatre stage and audience area. Separately I had done a sketch of Elise and Joseph studying from the original title cover sketch that I drew at the very start of this module. However I felt the position of Joseph when he's placing the ballet shoe on Elises foot wasn't accurate so I looked at a reference pose which was inspired from Disneys Cinderella which helped tremendously.
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| Inspiration/Refference. |
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| Rendered style frame |
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| Joseph and Elise sketch. |
This was then enhanced in photoshop bringing out the pencil lines using the channels and inverse options which I learned to get clean lines in my work. I coloured the lines using my turnaround sheets. Except since Elise was wearing what would essentially be her finale dress It was coloured with shades of cool grey 3. These were coloured as flat colours as I had an idea in mind for them when I introduced them to the style frame.
Whilst doing some browsing on Deviant art for tutorials, I found one of particular interest and that was how to do some shadowing for the equivalent of a sun set scene and seeing as how this was a similar instance I felt it was time to try it out. To begin I created a layer of black over the character layer, and using the magic wand tool isolated and deleted the areas around the characters and lowered
the opacity. The tutorial stated I needed to push in the black layer, however the transform tool in Clip Studio just scaled it down to size. Even the free transform tool was no good so I resorted to using the vector eraser.
The key to the faint glow was a soft colour of orange set on screen layer and when applied I could see the appeal. I felt that was it, however I couldn't help but add a shine of light to the piece and using the tutorial advice of layering different shades of orange setting them to screen and stretching it across to create an amazing shine effect that added to the theatre settings of the spot light. I looked at the finished result and added a colour dodge spot light in the background adding more and even using the blur layer to create the animated effect. I felt it worked well against the painted background like something from a Disney film.
I decided to use this as the cover for my production bible and for the book I would write in the summer. So I added my designed logo and my trademark illustration and some text such as "written and illustrated" or "the Art behind the story".
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| Book Cover. |
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| Production bible cover. |
Looking back at the final cover, I would think that I've done a very good job of the piece and in my own opinion this had to be the best illustration piece that I've done in a while and its shown me how to add a desired glow effect to scenes such as this. I may consider using this method later in the future. However I realise that I should've looked into alternative designs for the cover to see what other options that I had and how to apply them. In hindsight if I had more time I would've done more design options but given I'm on a time limit with the modules I decided to stay with my original design. In conclusion I am satisfied with my outcome and its overall appearance. In future I shall do more designs to see which one I am the most satisfied with before developing a final digital outcome.
Whilst doing some browsing on Deviant art for tutorials, I found one of particular interest and that was how to do some shadowing for the equivalent of a sun set scene and seeing as how this was a similar instance I felt it was time to try it out. To begin I created a layer of black over the character layer, and using the magic wand tool isolated and deleted the areas around the characters and lowered 
the opacity. The tutorial stated I needed to push in the black layer, however the transform tool in Clip Studio just scaled it down to size. Even the free transform tool was no good so I resorted to using the vector eraser.
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