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Minor Project Proposal

For my final year project I would like to design Characters being an adventurer and a creature as well as an environment of the world for a a fantasy based RPG game.

Adaptation - Idea, Research and Influences

For my main project of Adaptation I intend to take a Coat of Arms and personify it into a character, Through research I found what certain parts on a coat of arms symbolize which I will use to help me personify the coat of arms and design the character.

Looking through book on heraldry I found parts that could be quite useful helping me know what time the coat of arms was created and the origin of its creation, there was also a part on colours that are used in a coat of arms, which can help towards picking out a colour palette. 

I intend for the design of my character to be less on the serious side and more humorous, Which lead to me finding inspiration from the artist David Colman who takes animal and exaggerates them creating unique fun looking characters, as well as that in some characters he incorporates designs into their fur/ body to make it look like clothing which gave me the idea to take parts from the coat of arms to incorporate it onto the character.

Adaptation (Main Project): Initial Ideas

Before my tutorial I did research on mythological creatures as I know that I'd like to do something character based. I looked at different cultures and mythical characters that they had, these are result of characters that I found interesting to adapt to:

Isis- one of the most prominent goddesses in Ancient Egyptian Mythology. She is said to be the patron of nature and magic, a friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and wealthy alike, and is also revered as the "ideal" mother and wife

Represented as a goddess wearing a headdress, representing a throne.She was also frequently depicted as a human queen wearing the vulture headdress with a royal serpent on the brow. In these two forms she occasionally carried a lotus bud or the Glyph of the sycamore tree.

Isis was also depicted as a winged goddess or a kite. In this form her wings spread a heavenly scent across the land and brought fresh air into the underworld.

Bakeneko- Secifically, bakeneko are able to take human shape, or near-human shape, some bakeneko maintain a cat form, but they are able to speak human language and wear human clothes. Some legends say that these cat- shaped bakeneko put towels   on their heads and dance on their hind legs.

Valkyrie- These are celestial ladies of Norse mythology who come to the battle field to select the best warriors who have been slain and bring them to Valhalla, the great hall of the upper world, great warriors who had died in battler were chosen by the Valkyrie to fight in the heavens as a form of training. after each fight their wounds would be regenerated by the Valkyrie and thus they fought endlessly to prepare for the final battle Ragnarok. The Valkyrie were great warriors themselves and had the ability to regenerate.

My initial Idea was to take one of these and bring it to life in 3D as a character, but from my tutorial I've figured that instead of just making the exact same thing in 3D but to change it and give it a twist, for example incorporating the character into a Video game by doing that it would help me pick a genre and give me a style to work towards.

Character Design: Research

Just  a little research on the definition of each word and multiple images of different designs of Steampunk fashion and a variety of aliens with different body shapes and character.

Character Design Research by George Hind

Initial story idea coming soon.

Narrative: Information Age Research

Research on the Information Age by George Hind

Unit 4: Fantastic Voyage Research

Research Into Cells by George Hind

unit 2: Research

Research Sumatran

Research Into Extracts

Research