Storytelling-Character Design Review

I like Danniel's character design. Her characters were details that showed different facial emotions on each paper. Additionally, her story was interesting as well, I really looking forward to see the final animatic of it. 

Research about the Vietnam War

As I  got genre Documentary, I decided to do a short war documentary based on Vietnam War

Research 

This is a short documentary on the Vietnam War, all its factors and how the people suffered.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhhbmk-akk

Short Summary of the Vietnam War

During the 1950s and 1960s, the United States fought wars to stop communism Vietnam had been a French colony since the 1880s. The Vietnamese fought for independence and won in 1954. The country was split into communist north Vietnam and non-communist south Vietnam.

Story telling and Script

Description 

In first week's storytelling session, we used two techniques: 

• Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse also know as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of works or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence. 

• Geometry Reflection 

Using geometry to create the character by overlap the shapes or adding facial expression 

Feeling 

I liked the Exquisite Corpse technique because each participant would take turns adding onto each other's drawing and collages resulted in fantastic composite figures. The drawings below are some particularly interesting exquisite figure that combines a humorous and absurd array of features such a girly head combined with bug's abdomen and a pair of claws. I personally think it was a perfect parlor game, involving elements of unpredictability, chance, unseen elements and group collaboration.

Evaluation 

The good things about this session is that we been taught to create a character with different methods and it's entertainment too. However, I didn't like the second technique, which is geometry reflection. The reason I didn't like it was that it kind limited my mind. For example, when I looked at a triangle, my brain would automatically links to house, trees, hat ... anything that based on triangle shape. This is bad as it limited the imagination and I could nerve jump out from this logical zoom to the creatively and unpredictability zoom. 

Analysis

Because of my logical mind, I could not expand more on the shapes, I knew that rather than think about character, it was more about react to the geometries. To make a better situation, I could have looked at other's work and get some idea inspiration from them, it might help me with character invention.

Conclusion

In addition to refer to other's work, I could also draw more shapes. 

Action Plan

If I lack idea again, I would refer to other classmate's work and create my own character.