Project2

Week 5 | Week 10

Mohamed Hammam Chebel (0342483) / B'des. Creative media (hons)
Illustration and visual narrative
Taylor's university lakeside campus

Project 2 | Decisive movement 

Instructions 

In this Project we were asked to create a movie poster of a famous Hollywood movie, the final poster should be animated (minor animation).

The poster should be original and simple, the animation has to have a meaning so the observer can understand the topic brought in the movie easily.

I have chosen Deadpool as my reference.

My idea is to make a fan art of the main character.

Reference

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In order to come up with Ideas for the poster I’m making, I did some visual exploration on Pinterest. I basically observed some of other artists work to find inspiration.

Sketches 

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Sketch in Photoshop

Adding Color 

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Color exploration

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Colored illustration 

Final poster Static 

After I was done with the illustration, I went ahead and started working on the poster. I used a yellow background and added an orange shadow to deadpool image to give it a three dimensional feel to it.

For the title and typography I used a bold font with a red color similar to the character’s suit, and made blood drops to the texts using the brush tool because the character tend to bleed a lot in the movie.

I added a famous saying of deadpool the below the headline to give a glimpse on the content of the movie.

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Final poster JPEG

GIF Animation 

I decided to make the poster as simple as possible, The main character showing in the middle of the poster with a background and some typographical elements for the title and other information.

For the animation part, I’m thinking about making either the background move, or the character’s eyes make a gesture, like a blink for example, since deadpool is known of his cute and funny facial expressions.

The animation will express the mentality of the character, people will understand that this will be a funny movie. 

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Animation reference 

For the animation I finally decided make the character look amazed because he always do funny facial expressions.

For that I used Photoshop, I masked the image of the character and applied the puppet warp tool, it was time consuming but I was able to achieve the result I wanted.

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Animation in Photoshop

Puppet warp

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Final Animated GIF

You can refer to my sketchbook for this project by clicking HERE.