13/ COP Practical Progress

- Chapter 3 of the essay: Exploring the reasons cultural representation has continued in the way it has and whether it can be deconstructed. Below is some of the resources that I need to rationalise together.
- Chapter 1 and 2 are progressing well and mainly need to be edited down. After the tutor feedback: a few grammatical corrections need to be made, referencing to be checked, more images to be included, words to be cut (where there are paragraphs explaining more examples of a point being made so not crucial). I need to keep referring back to animation where I use live action as example.
- Mike has said to look at: Kim's Convenience & Total Drama.
- The documentary about the Simpson's stereotypical south asian character Apu by Comedian Hari Kondabolu. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/lifelong-simpsons-fan-hari-kondabolu-explores-problem-apu-new-doc-n816216
- The three images are current research that I'm reading for my essay.

Practical Progress

I continued finalising the animal designs, adding colour and rough character sheets for all three. 

MOTHER: Initially I experimented with more interesting silhouettes but remembered that the floor length
kimono was always intended to be a cylindrical shape. I found a more interesting silhouette through a
hunched back and the head shape. As much as I want her to be hunched from years of work, she is not a

timid woman so I wanted to show her chin raised proudly. I intend on pushing proportions

whilst making the characters based on real life. Long neck, once very elegant.

Character development

Taking the chosen side profile I tried to explore what this would mean her face looks like front on.
Looking at old paintings from the time they often showed women to have long noses, small foreheads
and oval shaped heads, something I can assume must've been what was considered beautiful at the
time. I experimented with different proportions for the facial features for both the mother and father,
whilst trying to refine my favourites as I went along. I tried to incorporate different eye shapes, being
careful not to play into any racial stereotyping throughout the design process.

With my knowledge from my research into the dynamics of society in the Edo period you can see that

(above) I have assigned short character backgrounds to the characters to help inform how they will be

portrayed. I also tried to ensure that their silhouettes were distinguishable.