MEL STOREY

Panel Plan

Film Grain

Film Grain

Film Grain is the effect that I would use for the cartoon style. It isn’t too harsh and gives a texture to the image. It does make the colours bright but this can be adjusted in the Brightness/Contrast setting. This is a good effect to use under the Threshold as it brings out detail and colours in a good way. Too much Threshold makes the detail darker and merged which could be a bad thing if your trying to create a light-hearted story.

Cut Out

Cut Out

Cut out resembles a cut-out of paper shapes or blocks of colours. This effect is used a lot in the cartoon effect as it gives off the block colours and shades used in the cartoon novel panels.

Again the Threshold over the top gives the effect more detail. The cut out effect can be altered in the Filter Gallery. Here the post production of the image can be made to look more realistic or abstract with colours and shapes crashing into one another. This is an easy way to achieve the effect needed.

Panel Idea

Panel Idea

This idea is taken from panel 2. The white rabbit in a waist coat is typically impossible for me to photograph so to test out the page I used images from the internet and using the Polygon Lasso Tool I picked parts from images I wanted to use and put them on one page.

My thoughts about this test page are that first of all the background is too bright, but when I will be photographing the background the location will be a forest therefore it will be a lot darker. Second of all the rabbit will not be like this, he will have been illustrated then rotoscoped over, he will look more cartoon like rather than animated which I believe will look better.

This panel also includes a text box which let me practice and learn where to position it and what font and size I will need. I will be using a font from DaFont.com called “Alice in Wonderland” which I decided to use after completing the panel.