timmy and the blue beanie

so finally. the big one.

it started off strangely enough... our group had 4 people. i was already a team with pegan. then we were trying to pull kayvern into the fray. then fransca came along cos she was with kayvern. all in all... rather amusing.

in any case... the first presentation we did using kayvern's fly story and pegan's nursery rhyme.

http://kayv-man.blogspot.com/2007/04/re-god-created-fly-but-he-forgotten-why_3188.html

both of which were not exactly very well received so we all did a brainstorm again, i had the opportunity to re-sell my ideas again. i had created two story boards. not very good with drawing so i ended up writing both out instead. in any case the group really liked my second story (the other one being meant for children and was really graphics intensive and hardly even logical) and we haven't looked back since.

Timmy - Storyboard + Flips

the story took a great deal of time and effort to write (and re-write; there were almost 7 ammendments to it)... and i have to thank pegan for helping me with some of the harder rhymes. (this was after siti pointed out some lines needed re-rhyming)

the main idea of this idea (Timmy and the blue beanie) was for the story to have one meaning for the children (which was highly visual and simple in nature) and a much deeper reflective tone for adults. i wanted to encompass all the ideas into a poem: i fixed the number of syllables in each line and i made sure each stanze was really short. in the end each stanza had only three lines and the third line being dedicated to the adults.

the hardest part of writing this story was in building the double story... the problem got compounded when we all decided to do flips ups for the book. kayvern and i spent quite a few hours just conceptualizing the entire book.

once the photoshop and illustrator got started, I took up all other tasks other than the graphics because I really still am quite a retard with those programs. (not to mention my eye for color still isn't exactly up to scratch) in any case i started work on the grid and design document.

Timmy Design Doc

i had the idea to combine the grid with the rule of thirds principle - which later became one of those ideas i should have kept my mouth shut about because it became really hard to accomplish. in any case this grid that we ended up using is special because while foreground characters tried as much as possible to align with the rule of third (already measured out in the grid) the text would follow traditional layout rules of the grid as stated in the lecture.

furthermore our decision to join grid and rule of third actually meant we had to separate words and pictures. our eventual decision to put both together made producing the design document all the harder.

kayvern and i also spent quite some time putting in elements of the golden ratio into the book, the paper is actually scaled down from an A4. while original intentions were to make the book flip in the center, last minute changes to make it flip by the edge not only made the book simpler to produce but allowed the golden ratio proportions to show better as well.

http://kayv-man.blogspot.com/2007/04/timmy-and-blue-beanie.html