Throughout my life, the love of art has been at the core of my personality for years. Ever since the earlier years of my development, my appreciation for drawing, books, and anything creative related has been the center focus for most of my creative endeavors. This will be the ultimate challenge as it requires something that I have had little to no experience doing, and that is coding. For my final concept, I will be producing an interactive graphic novel that will consist of 2 different endings. The plan is to learn how to use the Unity engine along with an asset that will allow me to create the novel in a stylistic manner that suites my expectations.
What I want most from this project is to enhance my ability to adapt to other skills than just drawing, and I feel that. Which was the main reason I decided to choose this major. As far as this project, my main inspiration for doing it is my love of conceptual art whihch toches many different fields. Concept art is a very important component in many media-related projects that involve telling a story because they offer a glimpse at the possible direction a project could take. I’ve been fascinated with the look and feel of conceptual art and not just in one category or style but a pretty of them.
My project aims to be different in style and substance, which is more than enough to make a statement. Graphic novels exist in the world in many different forms. Most made with paper and others online but done as a single digital page, and have some interactive portions been attempted? yes. but not in mass. An interactive readable novel is actually quite uncommon these days seeing is how most have no desire to click, but if the panels were created in a way that would establish some visual elements that could entice the reader, then it will be worth the chance to accomplish the goal of making such a book. My art skills are more than enough to see this project through, but the other skill required is something I need to pick up entirely. It won’t be easy, but I have faith that this will be seen through.
Testing will be done with these steps, Storyboard, concepts, dialogue, and programming. Al, the assets will be created separately and stored in a folder for further use when the time comes to put it all together. That is the plan so far and it will be done.