Redesigning Taiwan

April 12th, 2006
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So this week has been pretty chill for some reason and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the calm before the storm, storm being final projects and finals and scary stuff like that. Anyway, this is the last thing I did before this calm.

The idea was a tourism poster. Actually, we had a choice of either tourism, sports, social issues, and something else, but Henry and Jenny told me to do tourism. And since I do everything that other people tell me to do, I went for tourism. And like any good Taiwanese kid, I chose to do a tourism poster for Taiwan. Here it is, pretty much step by step:

Left: this was me just messing around with ideas. If you’re not from Taiwan, there’s nothing really too special about Taiwan. But one thing that IS special is Taipei 101. So I tried to incorporate that building into my idea. Really, this wasn’t even an idea.

Right: I came across the boba idea while doodling and sketching. When boba became popular, it was described as “an exotic drink from Taiwan,” or something along those lines. So I wanted to remind people that Taiwan was more than just boba. This was really just a sketch… using 101 as the straw and putting stuff into the boba. Of course, you can notice that there are a lot of technical problems with this sketch.

Left: I began building upon the boba idea. First, by fixing up the lame dark grey background. I also needed to make everything look flat and fakeish… because there was no way I could have a realistic looking 101, and cup and boba and stuff.

Right: At the same time, I rendered a slightly different style… which reminded me of anime I guess. I kinda liked this one because it looked “asianish” but lots of people said that it took attention away from the subtleness of the boba cup and just my message in general. I agreed.

(click on it for a close up view)

Finishing up, I rendered boba’s with transparency, because boba’s have an outer layer and an inner layer with more chewy stuff. And I flattened out the insides. Note: I did it on purpose for the “straw” to be piercing the lid so that the punctures went on the OUTSIDE of the cup. Reason being that since my lid isn’t transparent, an inner puncture wouldn’t be very clear. And plus, the pointy end of THIS straw is on the top. Ouch!

Whew! Finished!

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