Minor Project

   29.8.2023 - 12.9.2023 (Week 1 - Week 4) 

Teo Javin 0349352

Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Minor Project

Instructions

Figure1.1 MIB

Task 1

We were tasked to present innovative concepts and give solutions to our clients. Firstly, Mr. Choong gave us multiple options of projects we could go for and I picked the 'Sang Guardian' project as it includes my specialization of concept design.

We created personas for the project and necessary information like the problem statement, insight discovery, contextual research, and interviews before proceeding to our creative process.

Figure2.1 Persona 1

Figure2.2 Persona 2

Figure2.3 Persona 3

Figure2.4 Persona 4

Figure2.5 Contextual Studies

Figure2.6 Contextual Studies

Figure2.7 Contextual Studies

Figure2.8 Contextual Studies

After a long week of contextual research, we started with conducting interviews. Designing questions are quite challenging as we need to both make the questions that answers our problem statement while engaging enough to prevent the kids from losing their attention span.

Interviews

Initially we went for a survey, however Mr Mike warn us that surveys might take so long that the kids might lose their attention and not finishing it, therefore we changed it into an interview. Me and Junzhe are in charge of presenting the bedroom questions, Trinity with the Bunis, Lee Ren with the cakehouse, and lastly Hadiya with Salmah's mother.

Figure3.1 Survey questions

Figure3.2 Updated interview questions

Figure3.3 Interview slides 

Data Analysis

After the interviews, we started compiling and analyzing the answers to enhance our knowledge regarding our problem statements.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c4ysc80Pq3dV5R4PMd7-jvLGAJ5UtMjK9ZuyRdPhFI4/edit?usp=sharing

Figure4.1 Data Analysis

Figure4.2 Data Analysis in PDF

After weeks of researching, we finally started with our designs. I was in charge of producing bedroom designs for the characters. I started off with some visual references from Pinterest and other websites.

Figure5.1 Visual Reference

I then create multiple sketches for both sketches, looking for the best composition and angle.

Figure5.2 Early sketches of bedrooms

Alya's room

Figure6.1 Initial sketch

Figure6.2 Greyscale

Figure6.3 Coloured Alya's bedroom

Maisarah's room

I initially thought that Maisarah would be someone who lives in a condominium, but after some feedback and research, I then changed it into a wooden longhouse.

Figure7.1 Initial sketch

Figure7.2 Final sketch

Figure7.3 Greyscale

Figure7.4 Coloured Maisarah's room

Some "side quests" of this project includes playing around with the appearance of the Leaf Buni and the character turnaround as my groupmate Trinity was struggling with it, hence we switched tasks as it is nice to do something different once in a while. I did the turnaround while Trinity helped out on Alya's room.

Figure8.1 Character concept development

Figure8.2 Character turnaround for Bunis

 Lastly, we created the slides to compile all our final work and present to Ms Han, hopefully she likes it!

 Figure8.3 Final presentation in Canva

Final Outcome

Figure9.1 Final result of Alya's room

Figure9.2 Final result of Maisarah's room

Figure9.3 Final presentation slides

Reflection

I would blame myself for my bad time management as I was not able to submit everything on time. However, I am trying my best to get rid of this habit. Self-reflections aside, I really enjoyed working on some interior design even though it was not my strong point but it was good to try something new every day.