PART I – Climate change
Project Duration: 3 Weeks
Submission Date: 23d November 2020
1. MOOD BOARD
Firstly, I realized that human beings mainly cause climate change. People try hard to make the new materials to lengthen Earth’s overall life span, but it turns to failure and brings more significant catastrophes. For example, in the movie Snowpiercer, human blasted the target to the sky to release the overall temperature. However, the Earth turns to super cold that no one can hide from coldness.
Secondly, climate change by natural factors—for instance, volcanic eruptions and ocean currents. However, there are limitations in describing relations and interactions between humans and nature, which lose concentration.
Bibliography
CLIMATE-CHANGE NOUN – DEFINITION, PICTURES, PRONUNCIATION AND USAGE NOTES | OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER’S DICTIONARY AT OXFORDLEARNERSDICTIONARIES.COM
In-text: (climate-change noun – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com, 2020)
Your Bibliography: Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. 2020. Climate-Change Noun – Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation And Usage Notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary At Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.Com. [online] Available at: <https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/climate-change?q=climate+change> [Accessed 11 October 2020].
2 – 1. PRIMARY RESEARCH
I visited the Botanical garden as a primary study. In this study, I would like to focus on tropical rainforests located in South America.
Contact sheets
Before jump to climate change, I have to get a sense of peace of inspiration to use them for final projects. Therefore, I visited two prominent natural places in Cambridge: Paradise local Nature Reserve and Botanical garden. In Paradise local Nature Reserve, I took pictures of both animals and the natural viewpoints surrounding them. When I visited the Botanical garden, I could see the small gallery where displays various scientific exhibitions. I first saw that site on the BBC broadcast. Furthermore, I heard that that place is for researching natural features and make new eco-friendly products assembling DNA.
2 – 2. SECONDARY RESEARCH
Books and documentaries that I read and watched
Through the above data survey, I confirmed that plants are one of the ways to solve climate change. Therefore, I think that if I use these elements in reverse to construct the story, I can develop a bizarre story.
3. SYNOPSES of my story
4. Concept art
4 – 1 . Thumbnail drawings – Watercolour
I visited Paradise local Nature in Cambridge to get inspiration. It was a great opportunity, but as I don’t know the basics of plants, It would better to research in detail later.
Photo by Seokwon 
Inspired by the round cactus, I painted a cactus monster that quickly sprouts thorns when threatened, protecting it from predators.
Photo by Seokwon 
These types of cactus are made up of many stems, so I’ve attached countless eyes.
Photo by Seokwon 
Cactus made of jelly like aloe has a abundant effect, but it was intended to express a cactus withered yellow because there will no water as a cactus monster.
Photo by Seokwon 
Crocosmia(?): They have colourful inflorescences of 4 to 20 vivid red and orange subopposite flowers on a divaricately (horizontally) branched stem. -WIKI
This plant with intense reddish colors is reminiscent of a sharp knife.
I considered the humanities factor. Tree leaves are similar to fan leaves, but I thought they were closer to hair. It would be interesting to realize the image of a tree monster washing his hair with rainwater.
All of the plants pictures above were taken with a digital camera myself in the Botanical Garden. I then drew the foundation on watercolor paper with ink pen and then painted with watercolor.
Before producing the final game for Part 2, I drew the concept designs in thumbnail size. The basic idea dealt with trees parasitic in the human body. Although the illustrations are bizarre and childish, they have been a great help in forming the overall idea.
I discovered one of the new ways to create animation. It is an animation using Photoshop, and unlike the previous method of drawing frames one by one, it was a more convenient method because when I draw one, the next frame to be drawn is immediately visible.
I mainly focused on the simple bizarre image. The process of turning an ordinary tree into a monster was drawn within 12 frames. Unlike animation using a puppet, it was cumbersome that I to have to paint colours one frame by frame.
Thumbnail ideas
To draw a new concept art, each piece of paper was cut and pasted on one piece of paper to create a layered effect.
To give contrast, the main character (player) was painted blue, and the wood monster was highlighted in red.
4 – 2 . Thumbnail drawings – Digital
I drew several drawings to get different inspirational images. It was successful in forming different characters. However, as it indicates the whole various topics, it was inappropriate to develop climate change-related characters. As I created potential characters, I’ll use five of them and make them in detail. I chose a soldier with a tree arm, grotesque fish that has humanistic body parts, moving furniture, and the polar bear with female body parts.
5 – 1. Character designs
5 – 2. Character designs
Besides, I drew an Australian soldier who exists, not the character I imagined, so if I select it as the final character, I have to change the design and face.
6. Final character
The inspiration for the use of color came from Akira. The use of achromatic color made the overall atmosphere of the film dark and bizarre.
The skin color was inspired by the Japanese anime’Akira’ and’Ghost in the Shell’. When painting, by deliberately lowering the saturation than the basic color, I was able to increase the realism and concentration of the painting. The skin color was infected by the tree and turned purple, and the eyelids and lips were emphasized with red. I thought that the overall face shape would be between Asian and European. The eye design inserted the typical British eye (William Laud’s eye). I like the final design quite a bit, and I plan to draw more illustrations in various poses.
The banyan tree’s height is about 30m, and not only the branches constantly spread from one tree, but also several roots from one branch come out and quickly become like a forest. In other words, when a branch is stretched out and bent and touches the ground, it will take root and grow again. So, it looks like a bunch of trees, not just a single tree. In India, it is usually regarded as a Buddha.
Bibliography: En.wikipedia.org. 2020. Banyan. [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan> [Accessed 19 October 2020].
I designed a tree infected person. The host’s body inflates like a balloon, and trees grow on it.
I drew a monster whose branches of a tree turned into human hands. The use and composition of colors is boring and not fun. It would be good to recreate it later with a similar concept.
7. LOCATION DESIGNS
Environment drawing – digital
Glacier melted, the quantities of oxygen increased. Therefore the giant insects appeared and attacked human beings and their inhabitants.
Inspiration from HIVE
The story is about climate change, and it was a good webtoon to get morphs in environmental design because the buildings and people who became hosts of bugs appeared through the story.
BEFORE MAKING STORYBOARDS
7. Story board
Rough Story board
Final Story board
The final mood board was intended to end with a bizarre image of a tree growing on the body of the main character who is fallen. It consists of six frames, two frames showing the upper and lower body of the character, and four scenes close-up of the scene where the character becomes a tree.
8. ANIMATIC SEQUENCE
Drawing style:
In the drawing style, I was inspired by the storyboard of Matrix. I believed that the clearly contrasting black and white highlights the strong image and allows the use of cartoonish elements.
Poses:
Almost all of the poses for the main character were taken from my full body photos. In particular, in order to implement a falling scene, I pose as if it instantly hits the floor. In order to draw more dynamic than the actual poses, I used perspective, such as drawing the feet larger.
Evaluations:
The sequence was successfully constructed. Although the storytelling process is quite complex and difficult to understand, the final sequences and bizarre sound effects were effective. The point to be supplemented is that the illustrations in the middle storyboard are not described in detail, so I need to correct them, and I can maximize the bizarreness by inserting completely contrasting music like classical music for the last sound effect.
9. Final outcome for part one
Expected result: A person’s face is tracked, and a virtual mask is placed on the face. The mask looks like the root of a tree, and when I make a motion, such as moving my jaw, the tree comes out of my mouth.
To do this, first of all, I downloaded ‘Spark AR Studio’. I opened the software and hit the camera icon in the top left corner. I clicked the ‘Assets’ and added ‘face mash’. Then, I able to see my face is tracked by the software AI system.
What I feel after this work is that the software develops rapidly and is easy to handle, so even people who lack computer-related knowledge can produce related content without any problems. Now I have to focus more on the ‘idea.’ In addition, I feel that constant research is required to come up with good ideas.
10. PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT
SEOKWON 