Computer Arts Honours Project: Semester 1: Front Cover and Main Comic Thumbnails

Dagon Adaptation Front Cover Mood Board

To begin with, made some quick front cover iterations to explore what elements that the front cover should include. Some iterations were minimum whereas others were just aspects of locations.

Dagon Front Cover Ideas

I really liked this thumbnail I made of Father Dagon under the waves of the ocean while a ship passes over it and using the idea of depth and scale contrast to highlight an eerie effect to suggest that something of this size lurks within the depths of the sea. After all the seafloor still remains unexplored. I was inspired by his piece to develop this idea for the Dagon story.

http://shadow-net.deviantart.com/art/Cthulhu-93988981

This is a photograph that I took on my train trip from Dundee one night. I found its composition and lighting to be inspirational for the front cover as a thumbnail idea. My plan for the next semester is that I will be using these thumbnails as a starting point. I will also make amendments and iterations based on them for the final comic pages. Once I have achieved this stage, I will consider to add additional detail unless I become restricted by time constraints. At one point, he photo itself was considered as the front cover.

Progress

As my project is focusing on how visuals can tell a story. I decided to begin production on s. I used the original source materials as the "Screenplay" for the story as it helped build enough ground for me to begin developing ideas. I also considered how some of the environments was described in the book. These designs that are shown in the following thumbnails will not the final designs. Furthermore, I have not fully developed the main character and the monolith.

Comic Thumbnails