Chosen Plot Points

In my last post i made a list of plot points that would tell the whole story in the graphic novel. Due to time demands its recommend to only choose a section of the story this is why i am only going to create point the first chunk of the story.

The chosen section i have picked to do is:

- Beginning on the novel a man is on the hunt

- Walking through the overgrown jungle like like location. he seem is curious.

- A creature soon spots him and makes its moves. Its well hidden.

- It swiftly attacks and the man finds himself in danger. he arms himself.

- During a quick fight he injures the creature and it falls and drags with him down off a small cliff.

- Landing in a old building he reaches and pulls himself up as the creature lays dead.

- As he pulls himself up he activates an old hologram.

I feel this might grasp the most excitement and allow me to explore twists. This choice also means that i will only have to create 2 characters. The first is the main player, the other is the creature that attacks. It means i don't have to focus to around lots of character designs as with limited time it would make it hard to get the project finished in time. Actions i see the character doing in pushing through leaves and plants while looking around.

Enviroment in these scenes is mostly all forest/jungle with new plants and maybe deformed plant creatures or new spices of plants. I want it to look well overgrown in parts with large leaves and trees. Maybe lots of vines connecting trees together to make it more trapped. During the fight i might create a more open space in this setting to show room to fight. The room the main character enters will be almost pitch black other than light coming from above as he will most likely smash through glass that is covered in plants.

I like the progression of this part of the story as it isn't very informative, more pictures and action rather than text and speech which allows people to make up there own mind of whats happening. Also means that i can twist their minds with the part i will develop as they may believe its all about hunting rather than science fiction.

Work Update:

Yesterday i forgot to mention that we had a lesson in After Effects to help us in creating our portfolio. We learnt the basics from simple uploading images and motion to importing multiple layers and a adding effects. We also learnt about vectors and masking work. I found this software tricky at first but also very good. I can see myself using this software for my final piece of show real. Also i like how slight movement could be created with one image with multiple layers to create an effect that makes it look like a camera is panning in an environment. I might implement this into my graphic novel.