To
give a brief overview of what my first project would involve I'll just
go through what I have to submit for my deadline. So as the title
suggests the main focus would be 'Caricature' and more specifically
caricatures of ourselves. For some of us this concept seems quite
daunting when we have to analyse ourselves and our personalities but for
me I didn't find it too bad. It was quite interesting to think about
what makes us special and how we could interrupt this into our work.
Now
I have gone through what the theme is you might still be wondering what
I actually had to do, well, for my submission I had to use all my
caricature research and sketches to create a clay model that would be
later used in Maya to rig and animate. That's all I'll say so far and
hopefully as my posts progress you'll get a better idea of the process
and how everything comes together.
To start the project I needed to explore my personality and my lifestyle in order to create a character with strong emotion.
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| Figure 1: A mind map I created to explore my hobbies, lifestyle, family and also physical features. |
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| Figure 2: Notes |
Once i had done the mind map it really helped me to separate the strong ideas from the aspects i didn't want to include in my final character sculpt. On the page after i noted some of the key points i discovered and some possible ideas where floating around in my head. Some of the themes i discarded right away but it was good to note them down to help show my progression to my final idea.
