After going through my sketchbook and character development extensively, I have identified a new set of characters that I am happier with. They are much simpler in their shape and form, reduced from outfits and unnecessary details, which will make them easier to translate into 3 different mediums when it comes to GIF building. These characters also have an individual, quirky charm to them where each could stand alone and have a story to tell - whereas before. the Jungle Jazz band worked much better as a set.
I numbered my top 4 to give myself a preference of selection. I will need some feedback and critique from my peers to help me gravitate towards a final character solution for my GIF.
I'm pleased with my ability to no longer settle for the first idea, or even the first few ideas, and to keep pushing and iterating and trying new forms and techniques of character design (cut shapes, vague scribbles with dry ink to form outlines, wet media to make marks that form into characters) to get myself out of my comfort zone, find new systems of making and discover work that I am happy with that hasn't just been selected for convenience.
Storyboards
I really considered what Dom Kesterton had told me about having a simple action and a silly consequence so that people can easily understand the situation and have a laugh along the way. The good thing about creating a GIF is that is transcends language barriers and we can all identify a silly and quirky situation. With my chosen music being quite strange, I wanted to create an equally strange set of environments and situations. I have never done anything like this before and had a heap of fun coming up with weird scenarios:
- Jazzy Cat grooving so hard that she knocks a coconut out of a tree. It hits her in the head giving her a huge lump - but this pleases Jazzy. She is happy with her growth!
- Laurel Loris finding a random scarf, which then wraps itself around her like a snake.
- Button M. Room feeling lonely in the jungle but happening across a field of mushrooms! Unfortunately they are all dead and he is the last of his kind. Button M. Room has an existential crisis.
- Squishy being inspired to curl up by a strange shell plant in the jungle, finding he isn't very athletic and eventually falling down and questioning his decisions.
- Jeff finding some funky leaves, picking one out of the ground to keep, and floating away.
I numbered my top 4 to give myself a preference of selection. I will need some feedback and critique from my peers to help me gravitate towards a final character solution for my GIF.
I'm pleased with my ability to no longer settle for the first idea, or even the first few ideas, and to keep pushing and iterating and trying new forms and techniques of character design (cut shapes, vague scribbles with dry ink to form outlines, wet media to make marks that form into characters) to get myself out of my comfort zone, find new systems of making and discover work that I am happy with that hasn't just been selected for convenience.
Storyboards
I really considered what Dom Kesterton had told me about having a simple action and a silly consequence so that people can easily understand the situation and have a laugh along the way. The good thing about creating a GIF is that is transcends language barriers and we can all identify a silly and quirky situation. With my chosen music being quite strange, I wanted to create an equally strange set of environments and situations. I have never done anything like this before and had a heap of fun coming up with weird scenarios:
- Jazzy Cat grooving so hard that she knocks a coconut out of a tree. It hits her in the head giving her a huge lump - but this pleases Jazzy. She is happy with her growth!
- Laurel Loris finding a random scarf, which then wraps itself around her like a snake.
- Button M. Room feeling lonely in the jungle but happening across a field of mushrooms! Unfortunately they are all dead and he is the last of his kind. Button M. Room has an existential crisis.
- Squishy being inspired to curl up by a strange shell plant in the jungle, finding he isn't very athletic and eventually falling down and questioning his decisions.
- Jeff finding some funky leaves, picking one out of the ground to keep, and floating away.
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