Klaus

all about research MA Sequential Design/Illustration Uni of Brighton

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animation. final version.

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the carrot will be changed to lettuce.

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notes for bookbinding

封面多于book cover（greyboard） 2 cm，要折进去。

bookbinding process：

1. drill. 8mm away from the content (picture)

2.sew. I use plain sew.

3. cut the spine.

5mm away from the holes.

glue the spine, strengthen

4. glue the endpaper.

5.measure the other 3 edges.

3mm away from the picture. cut.

6.  glue the cloth to strengthen the spine.

2mm away from the edge.

7.grey board size

greyboard width= book endpaper width － 2mm

greyboard length=book endpaper length + 3mm×2

8. spine width= book thickness + 2 book cover thickness

9. glue the greyboard on the book cover ( cotton canvas)

measure the margin between spine and book covers after you settle the book content between the covers.  The gap is usually 7mm or 8 mm.

10. cut the book cover.

20mm width.

11. glue the cover

broadside first,  long side second

press the corner

12. glue the cover with endpapers

endpapers may stretch a little.  I cut off 2mm endpapers.

13. put wax paper between the cover and endpaper, press overnight

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tutorial with Graham

15/08/2019

show Graham my book and animation demo.

1. book is good. I only made one copy. Graham suggested me to make another copy in case the book is broken or removed during the show. It is safer to have a replacement.

----I made another copy the next day.

2. animation is good. The second vegetable, Graham couldn’t tell what it exactly is, but he knows is one kind of vegetable.

---It is the carrot. Honestly, when I watch this scene, I also couldn’t tell it is the carrot, you can say it is ham or onion.

Graham recommended I draw a green leaf.

----I changed the carrot to lettuce.

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tutorial with Graham

14/08/2019

Send the PDF file to Graham before the tutorial.

feedback:

1. The age of the old man. Graham thought the old man still die too young(82 yrs). If it was him, he would like to live more than 90.

---So I changed page 100. “52 years later” change to “62 years later”.

2. number is different.  The number on page 30 is 1420062627, the next page when he uses the number to do the math, the number is 1420060600. why? If there is any mistake?

---No, when he uses the number to do the math, time has past 27 seconds.

3. How does the young man know people with a grey number should go to the sea and people with a red number can go to heaven?

---My mistake. Later I add the number 0 over people on the ads.

4. the speech bubbles are white, they are too poped out in some dark frames. You can change the background colour of the speech bubbles to make it not that obvious.

--In some really dark pictures, I change the bubbles to grey.

before:

after:

5. Last time when I have a tutorial with Karen, she said my text size is too big. So I shrink it down to 20pt. I ask Graham if it is ok now. Graham suggested maybe a little smaller. Try 16pt or 18pt.

20pt:

18pt:

16pt:

I chose 16pt.

5. choose the paper. 100gsm coated or 160gsm coated?

--160gsm coated.

6. Graham helped me with the text proofreading.

7. plan for next week:

  ① finish my final bookbinding next week.

  ② make the animation. Remake the sequence I have made in March. The ending part with a lot of hearts, Graham said it is too cliche. So I will change this part and remake this sequence with my new drawing style.

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tutorial with Ben Branagan

31/07/2019

I show him all my drawings.

1. Ben thought now my drawings look like an animation, I should adjust the size of the images to set the reading speed for readers.

He recommended La Jetée ( a book by  Chris Marker ), it uses different size pictures and blanks to adjust the pace when people read.

2. He recommended me to make a graphic novel, like Persepolis Graphic.

3. Think about where to put the text. Now I put the text in the picture. He said maybe put the text outside. 

4. Ending. The story should end when the old man gets on the train, you don’t need to twist it. Otherwise, people may get confused. 

---I explained why I choose this ending in my report.

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drink

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smoke

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head rig

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book sample

13 August 2019

I made a book sample.

The scratch is so obvious on the cover.

Helen said it is because you print the black cover, it is easy to see on black cover. 

I sprayed the matt varnish on the book cover trying to protect it from stretches. Matt varnish helped a little, but still not a very good solution.

I also thought about using a light colour book cover. But I still prefer the black one.

The front paper stretched a little when I glue it. Maybe I will cut off 1 or 2 mm before I glue it next time.

The board bend a little because I didn’t press it long enough. Usually, the book should be pressed overnight. As I need to use it for the tutorial, so I didn’t press overnight.

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Pull strip pop-up sample

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pop up book cover

I had thought about making a pull strip pop-up structure for the book cover. When the book is closed, the cover shows the front view of the young man, and the grey countdown is over his head. While the cover is opened, the pop-up structure will show the young man heads up and looks at the red countdown.

I tested this idea and found out it contains many crossed structures, which worries me because I am afraid the overlapped papers will get stuck. Therefore, I think about using this pop-up structure in the postcard or business card for the exhibition.

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World Illustration Awards

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Manga Exhibition

Manga Exhibition at the British Museum

How the manga use the bubbles

I use the speech bubbles and thought bubbles

How manga uses a special background

How I use it.

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tutorial with Karen （10th July 2019）

1.

consider the name of the station (Heaven Station), because the station leads the people to heaven and hell, maybe choose a neutral word.

-- Afterlife station? Limbo?

2.

the people on the boat or train are in different ages, maybe they should be the same age. and human sizes are different now.

3.

the angle of the countdown on page 17&18.

4.

the font of “door of rebirth” on page 21\22\23 is not easy to read, recommend Trajan.

up--old, down--new

5.

the text on the pages should be smaller. 

The font of the text you choose to use for texts ( Calibri) is easy to read and fit your story.

6.

the audience needs some simple texts to help them understand your story.

7.

Do people have the patience to read my story if there are a lot of texts on it?

-You need the texts to help them understand.

8.

design for the countdown

how to express the countdown is shifting quickly?

your current design works (up). or you can try ...(down)

9. 

remake the circle around the beer

up--old, down--new

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还有耐心吗

RCA Graduate Exhibition 2019

上周去看了皇家艺术学院的展览，Master作品。

有一个插画方向的作品让我影响深刻。看他的布展，可以看出他花费了很多的心思。布展非常的细致，有作品的storyline文件挂在左侧墙上，故事内容相关的场景实物，如滑板、水瓶、自行车轮胎和手套等等，甚至画了布展空间的设计图并标上数字提醒观众看他作品的顺序。当然他的主体----漫画书本身也很优秀。

只是，我觉得现在的人不怎么有耐心能看完他的漫画书。

或是说，对我来说，我的耐心不够。

翻他的漫画作品，可以马上感觉是好作品，但是漫画中的文字让我无法静心当场看完他的作品。如果是一个安静的舒适空间，我觉得我会看完。但是在展览现场，我觉得看完一本有很多字的漫画是对耐心的考验。

我注意到皇艺的展览很棒的一点——UAL和Kingston的展览都没有注意到的地方——可能他们也意识到观众的耐心不够，所以在布展的时候，他们都会在自己的作品前放一把椅子，或坐垫。总之会贴心的为观众营造一个舒适的氛围来，可以让他们好好的观赏作品本身。

我觉得展览中最吸引我，让我愿意画时间去看的是动画作品，即使我看到中途觉得作品并不十分有趣，也能有耐心全部看完。

在展览中让观众读的信息量太大（包含纯图片）或文字，我觉得是在布展/做作品时要考虑的东西。

去年看LCC的master展览，有一个人的作品很棒，画面内容轻松简单，但是页数有一两百页，即使简单也很难看完。

相比剑桥艺术学院的master展，他们的童书作品也是轻松简单的，但是页数少，大部分就16或32页，对读者来说就很好消化。

我自己的作品怎么办？

自己的作品估计会有115页左右的画，我觉得如果观众也是我现在这样的耐心，应该也是不想看的，也就翻一翻就过了。文字，我的作品是需要的，我现在考虑只能配少量简单的文字，现在真的没有人有耐心读密密麻麻的文字了。我只能寄希望在画完115张图后，能有时间做出一个小动画作为picture book的补充，来吸引观众看我的作品。115页的书，没有人看的。