FEDRIGONI RESPONSIVE// Illustration

On monday Ste and Myself met up to talk about what we had produced for the scene. We discovered that by going away and making these parts separately we had produced two sections that would not fit together; either in perspective or stylistically. We came to the conclusion that we should make two different scenes, one each. This way we can produce two books, that will look identical from the outside but contain different content inside, tailored for different clients. This was an easy task for me as all I had to do was follow my tracing paper layer plan step by step.

This is the full scene I have illustrated. There are 22 layers, A good number for the book which has text written for 20 pages already. I have added my own town, mill, a lake with fishermen and fields as well as tidying up the layers I made over the weekend. It is presented in black and white here because it gives a better tonal range than using colours for now. This way when we get around to buying paper we can buy from a limited stock and make sure the colours aren't to close in a more flexible way.

Here is an example of what a single layer looks like under all of the other content. This is the front layer of the town (town 1 on the plan). The leaf of the page here is the positive and the town sits within a standardised box within the page. This will allow the view of the scene to cut through every page.

Again a lot of small, fine details have been added to the design. These should show of the intricacy of the cut as well as the durability and creativity of the fedrigoni paper... In theory. I do still worry that these tiny details could be destroyed by the laser cutter. In response to this we have booked an extra session in with the cutter so that we can get some experiments going.

A detail is especially like here are these cuts in the lake layer, when finished they should appear to be water glistening in the sun, careful colour consideration is key here, layers like the two that will make the lake will now have to work chromatically with the others either side (Mill and Fields) as well as being the right colours to make up a lake.

I have also toned back the extreme South Park mountains. The snow caps are now more subtle and I have reduced the height of the hills and mountains creating a more realistic and gentle scene. I have also added in more trees and details into the hill villages.

 Overall I am extremely pleased with how the illustration has turned out. The scene is friendly and cartoonish, whilst being highly detailed and intricate. The audience will be able to see every layer and colour of stock within the book whilst looking at a beautiful italian scene. This screenshot details how the layers sit on top of each other in the layers toolbar. I have also added some placeholder text to experiment how text could sit on the page.

To get the laser cutter to work I have also saved every single layer to a different file. These have been named accordingly so that when we start the laser cutting process I can quickly add sheets and cut them, and generally save time further down the line.