VAILL 385 Character Design Fall 2014: Amy Clegg

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Amy Clegg Assignment #9

I chose to emulate Pascal Campion- I loved the shapes he uses, and that's definitely my weakest area. So in order to keep myself from being tempted to focus on line or form, I did my character in cut-out construction paper. I learned a lot from this project! I just wish I'd had more colors of construction paper to work with- Pascal's work also shows a bit of form because of the different patches of color that he uses within the characters.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Amy Clegg Assignment #6

...Bet you didn't know that Prince Charming used to be a scientist!

Yup, it's a wonderful fairytale, but did they ever tell us how the prince became a frog in the first place??? Well, maybe, but this is the REAL story-

Cho Ming was one of the lead scientists in China at the time. He had studied long and hard, and was finally rising to the forefront of his career. As a rising celebrity in the science world, many thought he would be the one to finally end the outbreak of insects that had ravaged the country for the last century. Cho was elected by the emperor to join his team of scientists in a search for bug repellent strong enough to rid China of all insects.

Well, Cho was a good guy, but he had his pride- he wanted to be the first to discover the cure! After much individual research, he snuck into the lab late one night with some amphibious samples to get a head start on his coworkers... while fumbling in the dark, one sample bumped into another, a spark was lit, the explosion went off, and here we are:

Prince Cho-ming.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Amy Clegg Assignment #5

Traditional Zulu cuisine was prepared by the women of the tribe, and although beef and chicken are their most common meats used today, they would often prepare game meat from ostriches, crocodiles, warthogs and monkeys. Most pictures I found showed the women in relaxed or simple poses, and often they were heavily decorated with beads, headbands, earrings, and anklets.

Fun fact: women of the Zulu tribe dress according to marital status! Unmarried young women don't wear much... enough said. Once engaged, women wear a shawl or chain of beads to cover themselves a bit more, showing respect to their future husband and family. After marriage, women wear longer skirts and full tops. Even the color of the beads they wear have symbolic meaning! Say goodbye to the famous "it's complicated" status!

Sources: (I was out of town for the weekend so... I used the internet mostly!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_people
This website gave an overview of the history and traditions of the Zulu people.
http://eshowe.com/traditional-zulu-clothing/
This website went into detail of the clothing and symbolic meaning that is shown in how the Zulu's dress.
http://www.ehow.com/info_7881401_list-traditional-zulu-foods.html
This website talks about the traditional recipes used nowadays and how they relate to what was really eaten historically.

...and several other websites that I failed to cite. Sorry! But I learned a ton :)