Illustration + Storytelling

So now I want to kind of bring attention to Narrative Design with the use of good Illustration + Story telling.  One topic I want to discuss is some of the more compelling ways that “Asterios Polyp” by David Mazzucchelli demonstrates storytelling through illustration. Before words are even given you feel this since of darkness or foreshadowing because of the use of the panels, as well as what each panel has to offer. The thunder and lighting, the messy room, even him laying on the bed in the beginning all sets to mood to be a bit darker giving us our introduction. Moving on to the middle of our story. We start to see how the character became the way that he was in the beginning of the story. His life was given new meaning or new style of life, sense the woman that he’s now with adds more of a rougher non “structured form of life. And towards the end they so of mesh together and have a happier ending through all of the struggles and darkness that was in the beginning. Over all it was a wonderful story to get into.

Story telling is a huge part of most peoples daily lives and not many are aware of that. As a Motion Designer our main goal is to tell some type of story whether it’s big or small. We give viewer’s a new perspective to what can become a story through abstract images and even objects. A Story doesn’t always have to be based on a human subject, because someone can make a flower travel through time and space and the story behind that is everything has a beginning and end.

So tell me what you think, is Story important or not?