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Design Exploration

 


Park Hyoung Yoon (0325165)

Bachelor in Design (Honors) in Creative Media

GCD 6214 Design Exploration 



MIB





Introduction

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. Select one of the goals and explore and design based on chosen area of technological  specialization to achieve selected Global goals.. 

Quality Education were chosen to proceed with the project.






Quality Education


Wordless book was the main idea that fit into quality education. It encourage viewers to

- Understand that there is a sequence in the pictures

- Retain many imagees in their short-term memory because they do not know which are significant or what could happen next.

- Understand the choices of media and color and media that communicate mood and
atmosphere; the conventional meaninhs of gestures and facial expression, the various
uses of color and line and shape that point to important figures in pictures


The main story was built focusing on Empathy, Sympathy and Compassion

Compassion is important as it promotes meaningful connections, ÿacilitates problem-solving, and improves health and wellbeing. Compassion, at its core, is about putting aside
judgement and refusing to turn away from challenging situations. It’s about understanding the struggles of another people and wanting to help


Webtoon was chosen as the output media since its widely popular among the targeted audiences and easy to come across. 







Title - Finding Home


Story Overview

A story in a post apocalypse World. A Robot (Plabo) at the edge of its lifespan trying to find a home for a dog in it’s care.


Act 1
Plabo and puppy playing together, encounters group of scavengers 


Act 2
While running away from the scavengers, the main villain finds Plabo and the puppy.  The main villain smiles as he was searching Plabo robots to upgrade his mechanical arm and leg


Act 3
Plabo and the pup tries to run away, gets shot down by the main villains in the abandoned factory. There are markings around the walls outside of the factory. When the villains approached to claim their reward, a demonish figure comes out of nowhere and scares them away. Plabo tries to save the puppy from the demonish figure but shuts down due to damage


Act 4 

Plabo boots up and sees a young engineer, finds demon mask nearby and realize that she is the demonish figure. The engineer tries to calm Plabo and whistles out loud. The puppy all grown up jumps in. Plabo realize that the pup have found its home.







Character Development



Plabo - 21E

Robot made for gardening purposes. Made to be biodegradable allowing plants and mushrooms to grow on them for eco friendly environment when decomposed, and for display purposes by the company. It follows the main three laws. 

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law

A robot must protect those who are in its care and its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second laws


Plabo Reference images




Plabo Development

Plabo rough sketch img 01

No.7 was chosen to be explored further
Plabo line art img 02

Plabo line art from base model to carrying bag and worned out parts
Plabo color img 03

Colored version of Plabo. Feedback was given to explore other colors and patterns/ marks on the robot 



Plabo color variation img 04 


Color variation of Plabo. Decided to go with green and yellow since its eco-friendly robot designed to plant vegetation.


Final variation of Plabo design img 05


Final variation design of Plabo. Number 2 was chosen to be used in the final webtoon comics.


Final Design









The doggo, Humba

Mix breed, street dog found by Plabo (the robot) when it was a puppy. Named by Lucy after she took care of him. 

The name Humbaba comes from Akkadian mythology. Humbaba guarded the Cedar Forest where the guards lived. He was assigned the task of terrorizing human beings by Enlil. This demon was surnamed The Terrible as well.


Humba Reference images


Sketches

Humba sketches img 06

Color variation and sketches of Humba. The third orange-brown & white color was chosen as final color scheme of Humba. Humba will start off from puppy from Act 1 - Act 3, so puppy sketches were explored much more. 

Final Design












Lucy, The Military Engineer 

Her father was an spec ops soldier and were military weaponry and technology expert. He died when Lucy was young by illness. Lucy, an intellectual who mastered and engineered military weaponry and technology used by her father to defend herself from the scavengers. She became too good with her defend tactics and claimed her own territory, she began to be known as the Devil in the mountains among the scavengers.


Lucy Reference images




Lucy Development

Lucy line art design img 07


Lucy silhouette img 08

Lucy character design. focused on sharp edges and trangular shapes to have malicious and sinister apperance. Number 4 was chosen to be explored further.



Lucy outfit design img 09


Concept design in cape and when she's at her casual attire. More mask variation study were suggested. 


Lucy Mask variation img 10


Lucy Mask Color Study img 11


Rendering and coloring test on masks and face. Referenced Arcane Series on Netflix on rendering.

 



Scavengers 

Survivals of the post apocalypse world. They loot and steal from people in groups or sometimes alone. Only goal is to survive in the lawless world.





Purple Gangs - Extras




Street gang known as Purple Gang due to their purple leather jackets. Survivals of the post apocalypse world. They loot and steal from people. Only goal is to survive in the lawless world.


Villain Fam - Main Villain

As the appearance of villain fam is from Act 2 onwards, character concept art developments were not done. Only keywords of the villains were set.

 








Proposal Presentation





Final Presentation







Rough Story Board




Act 01 Line sketch
Final Outcome

Blogger-

Webtoon Eng- 

Naver Webtoon Kr-







Reflection

One of the Challenges were time constraints, but by focusing on just act 1 and prologue it helped to polish and explore as much as I can on this project. On artstyle,  i was planning to follow the  arcane series on netflix but it took too much time and energy. I've found all the webtoon art styles had simple lines and shape language which inspired me to have a simplified art style using textured brush.Onomatopoeia was very new to me and also expressing sounds in texts was very challenging as i ve never read English comics and did not know what kinds of words were used in certain sounds. Arranging the webtoon layout was fairly important too. It was critical to have well balanced  negative space so that viewers won't be overwhelmed with illustrations and emphasis on each scene.


I have learned that wordless books were important in education and how they improve literacy skills by constructing  visual narratives promoting viewers comprehension and vocabulary. I have also learned that creating webtoon contains lots of design thinking of character art, world building typographic design and techniques to control negative space based on scroll - friendly interface. It was a let down, unable to finish all the episodes but im glad with the experience i had making my own story to be told in webtoon format.





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