Before I got onto character designing, I took Sara's advice and began to make a mood board of all things related to our topic - farm animals. In Sara's lecture, she said that for her projects, before she planned anything, she made mood boards of anything and everything that related to her story so that she could form new ideas and motives based off simple objects. So before I went straight onto designing my characters, I took her advice and found pictures of every thing that is farm related. I looked at food, to clothing to farm objects, things that come out of farms, etc and I found it really useful. It made me come up with new ideas for our narrative/script. For example, food is not something I had thought about incorporating into our dialogue, but what does happen to the crops and the vegetables during climate change, floods and droughts? It is so obviously effected, and something I want to research more into so that I can incorporate it into one of our personifications, but I probably would not have thought about this without having put this mood board together. Also from milk, I began to think about the farmers businesses'. The economic side of things is another factor I did not think about, but surely climate change takes a toll on how well the farmers do financially. Again, I will be looking into this and making sure we involve it in our narrative!
I then opted to look at the first character I was going to designs - pigs! I wanted to make a mood board of several styles and photographs of pigs, because I wasn't sure how to design our characters yet. Especially since these designs will be for both Hayley and I to manipulate our models from. I looked at very, very cartoon like pigs to more illustration like images, and then to of course real life references. I found that although this mood board was inspirational, it didn't really give me any direction for designing the characters, and I think it will be more a case of experimenting with different drawing styles first, finding one that I like and then expanding on that for the rest of the animals. I have not really experimented with character design yet, so that stage will be interesting to look back on in the future, but hopefully it will strengthen my drawing skills and some confidence too.
Lastly after talking with Hayley I made a board of all reference photos I am going to use for my designs, and of all the animals that we could come up with. Some of these for example, worms, birds, and field mice, were ideas that Hayley cam up with that I would have never have even thought about because my mind went straight to the more obvious animals. I think this is so creative to have animals that are not in conjunction with your automatic response to farm animals, because it opens up more opportunity for us to have more facts and figures that are less obvious and more relevant. Though this means that it will be trickier for me to make designs for animals that are less common, I am excited for the challenge, I just hope that I will be able to draw some clear designs that Hayley will also be able to work from.
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