Blog 5 - Story & Working method

Theme: Alice's Dream

Description of story: A story of what Alice sees in her fantasy dream.

Story line:

Panel 1: Down the rabbit hole

a girl falling down.

Key elements: Stopwatch, Alice, books, vase & flowers, teapot and tea cups.

Panel 2: The smoking caterpillar

a human-caterpillar smoking in a mushroom forest.

Key elements: Human-caterpillar, cigar, smoke, big mushroom, small mushroom and flowers.

Panel 3: The grinning cat

alice pulling the cat's mouth making it grins

Key elements: Alice, cat, fern, curve moon, and water flow.

Panel 4: One mad tea party

alice bathing in a teacup poured with tea.

Key elements: Alice, water flow, tea cup, teapot, cloth, muffins, flowers and mushrooms.

Panel 5: Playing cards

alice holds the cards of J, Q and K in her hands.

Key elements: Alice, poker cards, J, Q & K, roses, vines with torn, sun and flowers.

Panel 6: Just a dream

alice wakes up from her dream.

Key elements: Alice, teapot, tea cups, sun, leaves, mushrooms, book and flowers

Working method:

Imaging:

1. Choosing the elements from the story of Alice in the Wonderland for each panels.

2. List all the elements out.
3. Plan out all the composition of the panels in a small thumbnail. 

4. Detail sketches

5. Inking the sketches with sharpie

6. Digitize in Illustrator

7. After digitizing in Illustrator, bring the panels to Photoshop for further edit such as colour correct and texturing the image.

Sound:

1. Research about the Japanese sound.

2. Search the tabs of guitar that is similar to a cultural Japanese music.

3. Compose the different sound with a recording in a recording studio record in Audition.

4. Listen to each of the sound, arrange the sound in different layers and pan the sound to create more depth.