Illustration and Visual Narrative | Album Cover
Week 8 - Week 11
Nadia Chong Wen | 0355736 | Bachelor's of Design
(Honours) in Creative Media
Illustration & Visual Narrative | Album Cover
Table of Contents
I.
Instructions
II.
Task
III.
Further Reading
Instructions
Assignment 1 | Album Cover in Adobe Illustrator
Cover Information:
Chosen Song: Fly Me to The Moon
Art Style: Art Deco
Size: 30.48 * 30.48
Reason and Relevance:
Art Deco was an international decorative style than ran from 1919 to 1939. Known initially as "le style moderne" or "Jazz Moderne," the style received its current name in 1968, during a period of scholarly reappraisal.
I thought it would be fitting to use it for "Fly Me to The Moon" because of the uniqueness of art deco and its romantic and jazz feel that it has. "Fly Me to The Moon" is a love song after all, where a man is deeply in love with a woman.
References:
Figure 1.0 | Moodboard with examples of art deco
For the references, I tried my best to see art deco pieces that are done in posters as well as how they are shaped in general in order to get a good feel about it. I realized that the style is often associated with gold and black and so decided to use that as the colors for the artwork.
Sketches and Rationale:
Figure 1.1 | Sketches and Rationale
Originally, the finished artwork was bigger than the final artwork shown here but I decided to go for the final shown here instead due to the bigger artwork looking more like a poster than an album. As I explained in the rationale, I wanted to draw a romantic scene between two lovers dancing underneath the moon with shooting start to encompass the romantic feeling of the song.
I also couldn't find a default font that would suit the album so I decided to download one from adobe fonts called Fairwater in order to use it for the album.
Final Album Cover:
Figure 1.2 | Final Album Cover
Animation:
For the animation, I often looked up on how to do the animation that I wanted on Youtube since before this, I have never used After Effects before. It was an entirely new experience for me and I didn't know what to do, so I searched up specific things first to familiarize myself with it.
Figure 1.3 | Making blinking stars
First, I started by making blinking stars by getting an image of a starry sky and making a curves adjustment to make sure it only shows the brightest stars in the image. Then, I made a turbulent noise layer and adjusting it in order to animate the stars. After turning off the visibility of the turbulent noise layer, I set the curved layer to screen and placed in on a luma-matte so it can follow the movements of the turbulent noise layer. I then increased the intensity so you can see the stars better in the background.
Figure 1.4 | Shooting Stars
For the shooting stars animation, I went into the transformation of the lines and went under taper to adjust the the edges of the lines. Then I trimmed the paths in order to dictate how it should move. Then I used easy ease in order to make sure I can manage the time between the lines because it felt unnatural.
To make the words have a golden like sheen and people, I used the CC Light Sweep effect and changed the colors of the light in order for it to have a more natural and grand feel. As for the animation of the people, I still wasn't familiar with animating traditionally with After Effects so I went with moving the couple in order to display the movement of dancing.
Final Album Cover (Animated):
Figure 1.4 | Final Album Cover (Animated)
Further Readings
How to Create A Light Sweep (Shine) Effects - https://youtu.be/_U0HHLX4EZE?si=ft4jfd3xo07Iz_7e
Twinkling Stars and Falling Stars Animation in After Effects - https://youtu.be/Uhi2FcPBS3k?si=vSKxSdO5NhK73b-R
Make Stars Twinkle! | After Effects Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo4R0wtas4M&t=203s
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