1.26 Reflection on creative journey and idea development

At the beginning, I copied some characteristic animated images in my sketchbook. In the process, I want to create my own character in my project. And according these characters, I know that my character”s emotion would be rich, that will express his feeling better.

After that, I started thinking about how to create characters. Since I wanted to study animal rights and cruelty to animals, I came up with the idea of reversing the relationship between humans and animals, so I drew characters like the following.

Next, I had four outcome ideas for this project, and I created storyboards for each of those ideas. Finally I chose my first idea, the animals in the laboratory.

Then, I considered that what kind of story and what kind of painting techniques should I use to express this project. And I watched An animation on Youtube, it gives me lots of inspiration.

So I decided the “silhouette” to create my animation.