Designs for final presentation

Queen of Hearts

Aspects of the Queen of Hearts looked at:
- powerful, loud, extravagant



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The Hatter

Aspects of The Hatter looked at:
- nonsensicle, eccentric, formal yet scruffily absent-minded



Top image referenced from

Duey Learns Ballet & artefact work

Kept forgetting to post over the past couple of weeks, but my client animation, Duey Learns Ballet, is on YouTube!



As for artefact work, here are some more finallised designs for Alice based off the feedback from the presentation.



And some designs for the Cheshire Cat.





Had a much tougher time with this. Trying to recreate the feeling of the Cheshire Cat while making him look as 'odd' as possible. I preferred the 'slinkier' look on the second set of designs, it makes him seem more sly like he can slip about here and here whenever he wants, which is what he does in the books. Whether this is agreed on remains to be seen.

Halfway through artefact 3

I've changed the theme of my artefacts. For the rest of them I'm going to choose characters from Alice in Wonderland and redesign them while keeping the feel of the characters the same. I think I'm going to make them in a more modern setting, but when designing their face and body shapes I'm going to use a simple version of their original design.

So here are my designs for Alice so far, along with the shapes used.

I'm going to pick the designs that work and develop the other aspects of their design such as hair, clothes and body language, then colour comes afterwards. By the end of it, I should be able to draw conclusions about which shapes, colour and other such character aspects work best for each character.

I'm going to post comparison pics between other renditions of Alice soon so I can further my ideas.

Jungian archetypes in Lord of the Rings

Found a fascinating video yesterday about how Jungian archetypes can be placed within different stories. Since I'm looking at these archetypes for my artefacts, it was more than helpful.

Mythological Structure in The Lord of the Rings from Chris Boulton on Vimeo.

For my artefacts, I'm going to pick 6 jungian examples and create 3 different characters for each one, varying in style and dividing them into variations of their archetype. This video helped me realise this much easier than reading about it.

Maybe a change to the question

As I'm getting further into the PRP, I think I need to change my question a bit, otherwise I think I'm gonna miss the goal completely. So, to be able to keep myself on the right topic, I want to change my question from

Have character archetypes affected the development of characters through various forms of media?

to

How are different character archetypes used throughout various forms of media?

I think with this question, I can more easily give the examples I was hoping to give in the first place while still being able to identify what archetypes are used more than others and expanding on how current archetypes can be used to create new experiences for readers/viewers/gamers.