UNISA ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION
GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2018
MELANIE CARLIN
Illustration + Animation
Born and raised in Adelaide, I am a quiet young woman with bold and colourful pieces of work. I always strive to produce my best work for any project I am working on and devote a lot of my time to my passion for illustration. I express my emotions and vivid imagination through my work and pride myself on my creativity, which comes in handy when creating a fringe poster or bright and vibrant Mural.
My strengths lie in traditional medias and simple digital cartoon characters/ designs. Particularly for websites, editorials, 2D character design, and children’s/young teenager’s book characters. I also focus on posters, flyers, postcards, book covers and more creative pieces of work for magazines and different forms of print.
I returned to university this year to focus my digital skills in animation. Creating 2D animated shorts, frame by frame, are a strong skill for me currently, but I am experimenting with 3D animation and design to further develop my skills in the animation field.
Poster Design Medium: Digital Drawing An entry into the 2019 Adelaide Fringe poster competition. The entry is fun and different and expresses the creativity of the fringe through its bold use of colour and odd object selection.
Book Cover Design Medium: Watercolour & Digital Editing In conjunction with Unisa English students, this book cover was created for a story aimed at children about how sometimes food can be yummy put in a different context.
Narrative Medium: Digital Drawing A short story written by Melanie that was developed into a small comic book. The comic style was chosen specifically to practice layouts for comics and producing multiple frames for a single illustration.
SALA Exhibition Piece Medium: Watercolour This illustration was created for a competition run by Unisa’s student association. The prompt was ‘Mind Frame’ and was chosen with 38 other students work to be exhibited in the SALA festival
Medium: Digital Drawing A poster, flyer and postcard created for the Media Arts Festival in Study Period 2. The three deigns had to be coherent and follow a strong design language, that effectively advertised the festival.