Album Cover 01

This is the album cover for Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory album, the album itself was released in the year 2000.

Hybrid Theory Front Cover

The cover front cover has a solider character in the center of the cover this could sybolise a 'bold' and 'confident' look to the band. The compsosition of the cover seems to use the rule of thirds, "[HYBRID THEORY]" is in the bottom right of the cover and take up approximately a third of the cover's width.

Hybrid Theory Back Cover

What is a Digipak?

• A Digipak is a style of Compact Disk (CD) or Digital Video Disk (DVD) packaging, often accomponied by a poster or magizine advert is used  to promote a particlar artist, and often uses the artist genre conventions to give more of a 'meaning' to album covers artwork'.

the main conventions of a digipak are:

• The artist's name
• Album name
• Track list
• Graphic
• Website
• Producer
• Record Label
• Coryrights
• Barcode
• (Sometimes) Sticker to promote a widely promoted song

The conventions for the genre Alternative Rock which The Pretender falls under are:

• Dark (sometimes deep lyrics)
• Loud instrument/audio
• Screaming (often to get a narrative impact point across)
• Violence (physically, or verbally)
• Drugs (blaitent or implied)
• Sense of rebellion 
• Breaking guitars
• Loud

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Character Development

This character that I have developed is of the guitarist that has been based on the character Maka Albarn from Soul Eater.

This is the initial sketch of the guitarist

This is the digital sketch of the guitarist

This is a variation of the guitarist with the coat open

This is an updated version of the guitarist

This is the basis of the guitarist animation, it shows progression from the original sketch. the picture bottom left shows the arm movement for the animation.