Chance Gayles
Project concepts
1.Digital manga and Marketable material
Using the skills I’ve been gaining the past year (and while in Japan) for my thesis, I will create high quality chapters of a digitally created manga (using photoshop / clip studio paint & various techniques and digital methods) along with character sheets, cover, marketable materials such as Poster (photoshop), Video Advert (adobe after effects), Merchandise, etc.
2.Digital Lookbook
A large collection of digitally generated character sheets, altered photos, and motion graphics made print-ready and marketable with the possibility of presenting a physically printed book.
3.Audio project
Creating an album along with Visual assets and video with another IMM student. This would include production, mixing, mastering, shooting, editing, and conceptualizing artwork for digital platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, etc
DIGITAL MANGA AND MARKETABLE MATERIAL
What makes this innovative? What makes your work and your skills stand out from decades of existing manga? I don’t know that your project would stand out if it’s *only* manga, but I’m very intrigued by the possibilities of the entire package presented together, and I think there’s an opportunity to do something distinctive with that. Your project really hinges on a unique and engaging presentation of the entire interrelated package of materials. You’re designing not just the individual components, but the user/reader/visitor’s experience of your work taken all together. While you’re in Japan I’d suggest really exploring how manga is being presented in these various forms, and perhaps how that approach to presentation is unique to Japan. This idea offers a great opportunity to really capitalize on your experiences and insights abroad.
LOOKBOOK
I do like the idea of a well-designed *printed book* for an IMM thesis project. But while I believe it would be a first for IMM, it’s certainly not a first in the wider world.
AUDIO PROJECT
Like the Lookbook idea, I have no doubt your work for this idea would be high quality, but it would be challenging to truly innovate in such a well-worn form and crowded field.