Sadly, almost all the original pages of 'Zak's Fantastic Daydream Machine' are lost forever, victims of both malfunctioning flash drives, & my terrible (at the time) organisational skills.
What's left are a number of my original scanned pencil sketches, & a few of the actual finished (or, near-finished) pages. This was (I think?) a 2nd year university module.
I can't quite remember if it was specifically to create a story for children, or if the scope was broader, & I chose to create a story for children? Either way, this was really the first time I'd started experimenting with using 'real-life' backgrounds (paper, card, fabric etc.), photographing them, then importing into Photoshop, & drawing characters, foreground objects etc. over them. It was a time-consuming, & fiddly process, which is why, subsequently, I have done all the background creation in a digital environment too.
Whatever the story was, I can't really remember, but it was almost certainly rambling, & lacked focus. Something about a bright kid who creates a machine out of junk, which enables him to travel to a weird & wonderful land. In fairness, my attention was all about the visual fun & whimsy.
I think I'd like to revisit this idea, in the future.
Some stand-alone designs, based on sketches I'd made for the story, but finished entirely in Photoshop, after the project was over.
