minor project - fan design research

To get some inspiration for a Japanese Fan-based story, below are a collection of designs so far .

@PHIL Minor project

Origami ideas

Research: The 1000 Cranes

An ancient Japanese Legend, which says that those who fold 1000 paper cranes will be granted a wish from a crane. Some believe you will be granted eternal good luck or a long healthy life. The crane is a mystical creature in Japanese culture, That is said to live for 1000 years.

The Crane is now an international symbol of peace, which came from an inspiring story based around a girl called Sadako Sasaki - An atom bomb survivor. She heard of the crane legend and began to make 1000 paper cranes, in order to wish to be well again and to live. She made 644 cranes, until she realised, after seeing other children dying, that she was going to pass away soon. So she aimed to wish for world peace instead. After she died from leukaemia, her classmates finished the cranes in her memory. 

“I will write peace

on your wings

and you will fly

all over the world” 

idea:

 Sick girl makes origami figures. She makes the Cranes, attempting to make 1000. She becomes too sick and [writes peace symbols] in the wings of the cranes, wishes for them to spread peace. and goes to sleep. In the night, the figures come to life and fly out the window. They spread out and (

narrow down to one crane? the crane returns to the girl, who has passed away. The crane climbs into her hands to rest with her forever. 

Paper Dolls

 A paper doll book is in [a girls room] [a shelf in a shop] [given as a gift to a young girl] but the girl doesn't want it and gets tossed somewhere. the page falls onto a paper doll . The doll and clothes are an old fashioned collection. The doll looks around, and pops out of her book and goes to steal the other dolls paper clothes out of their books. She has to climb up to their shelves. She tries them on, and finds that she looks just like the other dolls. She soon finds that the girl wants to play with her now and becomes her favourite.

[period of time passes - years?] and the little girl has gotten bored of the fashion dolls and [chucks them out/ or something] and plays with the older dolls again. quote on the back of her says something like ‘be yourself’ etc . 

Paper Fans

There is a shop selling painted fans.  The fans show different illustrations- A solitary bird, a mountain, the ocean, the sunrise. 

The bird is alone and has nothing to do in its fan so it escapes and looks for adventure..

The ocean fan invites the bird to come and live with it. The bird flies over into the ocean fan but nearly drowns from the waves.

The mountain fan invites it, but the bird is too cold and almost freezes.

The sun fan invites it but almost burns from the heat.

The bird gives up. Then a fan with trees and other birds see the bird beaten up. they come to rescue it and bring it into their fan where it happily lives.

not so literal paper design stories - signify delicacy etc

paper train - A conductor travelling through weathers to deliver …something (gift to another?) through different seasons.  Snow causes train to get wet and dampen, sun causes something to catch fire, wind blows train off tracks, autumn leaves cover train in leaves etc.

when he arrives ... gift is severely damaged but paper doll girl loves him for coming all that way. / (as a train conductor he can only stay for a short amount of time before he has to leave again)

other thoughts.. 

board game come to life

Ice Skaters

paper dragons

paper aeroplane

Ice skater.  - an alternate version of the red shoes?

an animal living in a jungle..

Tilt Shift Lens Effect in Photoshop

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Minor Project - helpful words

1) Family Stories

Grandad K  - working in the theatre/ as a guitar player / Growing up

Grandad H - Things i never knew

How grandparents first met

Parents?

2) Projection - projecting ideas of e.g. fears onto an object e.g. a doll, / dollshouse / Projection onto a fantasia style animation.

3) Grandparents christmas pop corn / train display

4) boxes of photos

5) old travel diary

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Story driven / List formation / Fantasia style


Possible imagery etc. .

Identity - Mirror imagery, masks, doll?

Iscolation - Barren landscapes/ empty spaces

Peace - blooming flowers etc

Sprialling shapes

Influece images

New ideas..

Character design and animation. 

creating a creature design, inspired by mythological beings etc to create either a monster or a god like creature, for example. A monster reaking havoc on a city or god character defending/using a magical power. 

Animated short ideas. . animation around the idea of being in an isolated place - trying to get out..

Cat animation short - based around my pets e.g. who think they are jungle cats etc.

A moving environment idea/ animation...

Developing an environment as if it were inside a characters mind e.g. a character from folklore - e.g. Little Red Riding hood; and using a (common?) psychological studies which essay writers have written on the character and use that as a base to create what might be going on inside the characters mind.

Below are example images from 'Alice Madness Returns' which treats the original story as if it is all tragic memories in Alice's mind.

Minor Project: Further Ideas..Secret Lairs

Another idea for my minor project would be to create a 'Secret lair' similarly to the project in year 1 - For a made-up goddess / princess / Head of something i.e Yubaba's Bathhouse in Spirited away, or the Goddess Aphrodite's bedroom in God of War.  I was thinking of creating a character as a concept drawing and backstory, And aim to build a Digital Set for them as if for an animated film environment.


Ive made a few strips of paper with different combinations to come up with some ideas:

Desert dwelling Shaman
Woodland Inventor
Ancient Greek Surgeon
King/ Queen of Underworld
Parisian Spy
Aztec Prince/Princess
Amphibious God/Goddess
Egyptian Apothecary
Mountain Dwelling Priest/Priestess

Minor Project Ideas

Ideas for...small 3D digital sets