The Seat with the Clearest View

This is the final product of my Senior Project and Directed Studies classes in my final quarter at SCAD. Set to the tune of Space Oddity by the magnificent David Bowie. The tangible version is a bound book.

 The pages are meant as a dual narrative, with every lyric of the song you see Ground Control's point of view in that moment side by side with Major Tom's. So they're meant to be seen in pairs. I prefer silent narratives, so I omitted the lyrics in the final. The song speaks volumes anyhow. 

Listen to it HERE to enhance your viewing pleasure as you scroll through:

Ground Control to Major Tom

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground control to Major Tom/ Commencing Countdown, engines on

Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is Ground Control to Major Tom/ You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know who's shirt you wear

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control/ I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way/And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can/ Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still/ And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much (She knows)

Ground Control to Major Tom/ Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you--

--Here am I floating 'round my tin can/ Far above the Moon

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Watercolors, graphite, some digital editing/coloring.

...MORE silhouettes...

...in my head, that's said like Samwise Gamgee "More...lembas bread."

Second rounds of silhouettes, developing assets, costumes and value studies. I'm fond of the fish, though it's hard to make fish that don't look...derpy. 

Visual Language

Last week we had a lesson on visual language, and how to create a cohesive world by finding commonalities that you can echo in the characters, objects, environments, creatures, etc of a story. Think about the triangles in Atlantis, the shapes throughout Cinderella, or more difficult with live action you can find colors. Shapes in the environment but altering someone's physical shape might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
Unless you're Peter Jackson.

So, we were split into groups of 3 and chose the worlds out of envelopes and ended up with Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Mononoke, and Doctor Who (WHICH I ALMOST FLIPPED MY TABLE ABOUT). The three of us each chose a character from one of the worlds, and after we found common languages throughout the 3 worlds, created characters based on what we scratched out.
We ended up with elongated limbs, triangles and circles, big eyes, cool vs. warm colors (mostly blues vs. yellows), and saturated colors.

I GOT TO DRAW THE DOCTOR FOR CLASS. Sometimes...college, man. College.

Here's the end result:

Some silhouettes..

Learning different techniques for concept art, here's a slew of silhouettes for a story. A story about goldfish.

We had to study the environments and characters at first, and work on the assets a little later.