My Graphic Novel

Critical Evaluation

My project for BA 8 was to create a 12 page chapter for my graphic novel called Black Realm. Within this chapter the main character called Daichi Kokon is in old almost abandoned office on his way to fight the Rat King. But on the way there he meets a prisoner held here, an experiment creature runaway named TX0090 nicknamed Tuqnuk. The chapter starts midway through the novel, chapter 12 I’ve called it, as such I needed to provide some back story, so I put all of this on the first page. I still think it’s readable but the reader may get bored reading through it because it may be too long. Furthermore this may be considered slowing down the story flow, however because it’s at the start I feel that it doesn’t get in the way.

In this graphic novel is my first boss fight scene and overall I think the storyline for it went well, mostly because it was straight into the fight not too much standing around although a couple for the pages the Rat King is still because he’s thinking. I actually like this because it provides the reader a review of the fight from the Rat Kings point of view giving the reader an idea of how this character is thinking and what his personality is like. The same I’ve done for the main character.

The other character Tuqnuk provides a somewhat important role in the fight due to him being a distraction for the bad guy, the artwork influence for this character I wanted it to be something odd and alien like, so a lot his designs comes from Crazy Bones and Pokemon. In the he turned out to be sorter spanner shaped and coloured, I also made him about 3 feet tall so he doesn’t take the lime light of the main character Daichi.

The Rat Kings influence was partly based on Splinter from Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtle although I have taken influence from many different artists I also took the skeleton structure from a meerkat. The structure of the rat king looks fine aggressive, strong as well as somewhat menacing. I have however had some difficulties getting angles right when draw him; I got round this by using splinter as a bases for my drawings.

Daichi Kokon influence is taken from two characters both of them taken from manga, the first is from Bleach the character is Ichimaru Gin. From him I’ve taken the robe idea as well as some of the body structure. The second character is Seto Kaiba from Yugioh from him I’ve taken the hair and his coat. My character overall design is to be an calm and collected individual that doesn’t panic in any situation. Again although I’ve had some difficulties the viewing angles but I’ve struggled through it.
My graphic novel influences come from combined ideas between manga and marvel comics, the artwork is mostly manga and the marvel part is colour and partly layout. I think though I might have made it a bit dull and may have too many dark images. The light source however is quite high up and is murky so generally the feel of it should be correct.

My showreel is designed in such a way that the viewer is seeing it as a real graphic novel so the pages really turn, the music I’ve chosen however maybe a little over theatrical and slightly out of sinc, It’s a classical piece from Bach and called Toccata D minor produce in 1709. In conclusion I’ve think a work well for BA8 although I’ve had struggled every now and then.

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Black Realm Graphic Novel

My BA 8 Project is creating a chapter from a project I did last year that was based on an RPG game called Black Realm.

Contents

1. Introduction - What the game is?

2. Storyboard

3. Character designs

1. Main Character

2. Rat King

3. Third Character

4. Graphic Novels and Manga Influences

5. Final Comic

6. Bibliography

Introduction – What the game is?

The game is a Role Playing Game (RPG) in which the main character is a student from this world that falls accidentally into Black Realm. His goal is to find away to get back home by travelling around the realm. One method in getting home is to build your own magical power and collect nine highly magical precious stones, and taking them to Lyranthion to do a certain ritual. Lyranthion is a small collection of islands surrounded by whirlpools. The player travels the realm learning new and many things with companions that will come and go, defeat varies stage bosses and generally making a name for himself. This will attract the attention of both sides of the war that is currently happening and both sides will either want to eliminate them or recruit them, the player gets to choose which one he joins or doesn’t have to join any of them. All three chooses advantages and disadvantages the player must decide on whether or not this will help him complete his goal.

Storyboard

For my graphic novel the story line is linear at the start but then will split into multiple alternative lines as reader moves forward in the plot. The part that I’m doing is in the linear section and will be one of the first major boss fights. The main character I’ve named Daichi Kokon, a tall and calm individual. The boss is simple called The Rat King who quick and crafty, and finally I’ve introduced a third character named TX0090 or more commonly known as Tuqnuk who is an experiment that ran away from its creators.