Dance Revised

Jackson Dance 1 29 from Ariel Jackson on Vimeo.

We were tasked with revising our dance projects and character design to fix some of the major mistakes. I went and revised the color scheme of my character's shirt and belt and fixed some of the line work. I also changed the music choice that my character dances to too in hopes of giving her more rhythm to dance too.

Dance

Assignment right up


In this assignment we were tasked with designing a dance and making our character move in after effects. When designing my dance I had some problems because I was asking aftereffects to do to much however when I simplified some of my actions the program worked with me.

Jackson dance 1 27 copy from Ariel Jackson on Vimeo.

Simpler dance moves

Took moves from my reference video and made them easier to work with in after effects.

Dance Poses

Dance moves taken from traditional dances 

I feel like these poses where to extreme to start with in the dance so i went an took a video of my cousin dancing and smoothed out the moves to appear more graceful. 

Cool Musical Sounds / Dances

Watching people play traditional  Indonesian instruments such as the Talempong 


I don't own theses videos

Finial Design character

Assignment Write- Up 

Doing revises on my character for dynamic imaging I decided to take the advance giving to me by class mates. I made her cloths more rough an torn up also looked at more medieval style clothing for Romani nomads or gypsy during that time. I went and did more research on the world my character will be in and did more design choices on her hair deciding to make low maintenance.

Jackson 1 1 22 from Ariel Jackson on Vimeo.
Working with basics from aftereffects to make my character move

hair,cloths, and color designs/sketches

\Since people said that she needed more of a weapon design I decided to create one that goes with her and the story. Deciding on more of a makeshift weapon made out of a large stick and piece of a horn attached with a scarf the same color as her pants. she fights with it like a staff. Also has a knife for cutting plants and herbs that she finds on her journey.

I started with this color scheme with my character decided against it. I feel I needed more lighter colors for Dedra since she is more nerdy and nomadic

Some color schemes 

I chose this color scheme instead with my character.

dedra clothing design research

 
 
They wear softer clothing. allows for more movement.

Looking at the Hunchback of Notre-dame really helped however i decided for my story to make my character have on pants with softer coolers since she lives outside the city in the wilds.

I don't own any of these images

Dances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok0ijgLG5uo

Looking at how gypsies would move with the their clothing and to what music they would dance to within their culture. Thinking about making my character dance to softer music or simple sound such as a flute or drums.

I do not own any of theses videos.

Questionire 2

 What is your character’s name? Does the character have a nickname?
Divine Dedra of Lancaster/ The sorrowful wanderer
 • What is your character’s hair color? Eye color?
Black hair, Honey/ Smokey gray eyes Honey pupils Smokey Gray irises
• What kind of distinguishing facial features does your character have?
No
• Does your character have a birthmark? Where is it? What about scars? How did he get them?
A brand mark which is given to every exiled got it when she was exiled by her parents 
• Who are your character’s friends and family? Who does she surround herself with? 
She surrounds herself with creatures found in the forests of the wilds, demons and sprits
Who are the people your character is closest to? Who does he wish he were closest to?
The tribemen who took her in. The Horned God who saved her from the mist
• Where was your character born? Where has she lived since then? 
She was born in the void she lived with the royals until exiled which she lived with the tribes until her journey alone
Where does she call home?
Home is where she is
• Where does your character go when he’s angry?
Simples goes for a walk
• What is her biggest fear? Who has she told this to? Who would she never tell this to? Why?
Never being able to unravel the mystery that is the void/ Being worshipped as a divine. She would tell know one who didn't already know because she doesn't won't people to treat her differently.
• Does she have a secret?
She has a piece of the horn of truth
• What makes your character laugh out loud?
Seeing people act goofy
• When has your character been in love? Had a broken heart?
Never
Then dig deeper by asking more unconventional questions:
• What is in your character’s refrigerator right now? On her bedroom floor? On her nightstand? In her garbage can?
Nothing my character has none of that but her bag has herbs, a wooden flute, heath potions, food mostly mushrooms
• Look at your character’s feet. Describe what you see there. Does he wear dress shoes, gym shoes, or none at all? Is he in socks that are ratty and full of holes? Or is he wearing a pair of blue and gold slippers knitted by his grandmother?
Wears soft sole shoes made out of animal skin by the elder's wife
• When your character thinks of her childhood kitchen, what smell does she associate with it? Sauerkraut?
Oatmeal cookies? Paint? Why is that smell so resonant for her?
Smell of tarts baking in the oven right before a royal ball or the stew right before a festival
• Your character is doing intense spring cleaning. What is easy for her to throw out? What is difficult for her to part with? Why?
She has no need to throughout anything
• It’s Saturday at noon. What is your character doing? Give details. If he’s eating breakfast, what exactly does he eat? If she’s stretching out in her backyard to sun, what kind of blanket or towel does she lie on?
Mushrooms they remind her of her home back with the tribe
• What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood? Why is it so powerful and lasting?
Being lost in mist after being exiled then being found by a kid who she recuse from a trap. Meeting the horn god for the first time an being bestowed the power of the horn of truth. Then being found by the tribe elders
• Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where is she going? What does she wear? Who will she be with?
She is in traveling cloths and going out to explore more of the wilds

Character Interview

• What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Finding a way out of the royal tower and getting away from my family.

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Being able to explore every  part of the void and finding the truth behind it

• What is your current state of mind?

Busy 

• What is your favorite occupation?

Tribal Healer

• What is your most treasured possession?

A woven journal giving to her by the master healers of the tribes. or
A wooden flute given to me by the village elder   or 

The horn piece given to me by the horn god himself

• What or who is the greatest love of your life?

The World

• What is your favorite journey?

Traveling through the Mushroom Forest

• What is your most marked characteristic?

Adventurous

• When and where were you the happiest?

When I was able to watch the commoners dance at the festivals in the middle kingdom

• What is it that you most dislike?

Being Betrayed by those you thought loved you the most

• What is your greatest fear?

Becoming a version of myself that fits someone else "Liking becoming a puppet with no independence"

• What is your greatest extravagance?

Saving that kid at the cost of my life even at the brink of insanity 

• Which living person do you most despise?

The Emperor or my parents

• What is your greatest regret?

Never being able to say goodbye to the village elders

• Which talent would you most like to have?

Healing

• Where would you like to live?

Everywhere

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

When I was left for dead in the cold embrace of the mist

• What is the quality you most like in a man?

Someone who understands what it means to be free

• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Lack of a restraint or Hot headiness

• What is the trait you most deplore in others?

being closed minded

• What do you most value in your friends?

Intelligence

• Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Percy Jackson

• Whose are your heroes in real life?

Myself

• Which living person do you most admire?

The Horn God

• What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

My Loyalty

• On what occasions do you lie?

When ever it is needed to get out of situations

• Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Truth, Time, Lets' find out, What do we have here?

• If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Being to ambitious about finding the truth

• What are your favorite names?

Doesn't Care

• How would you like to die?

Saving the tribe and common people from my family

• If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?

A sprit

• What is your motto?

The truth will set you free!
 you just have to find it!

Character ego

After revising my character I find that Dedra best fits the sage title  sage best fits my character's ego. She can be very intelligent when it comes to discovering new herbs and healing techniques. Dedra doesn't really won't to fit in or stand out but wishes to find out the truth about why her family abandon her also why they are in this world. She doesn't understand the world the way it is so she wishes to study it further so she goes on a journey by her self to find out the truth. However she can fall under the explorer ego as well because she does like to experience new cultures and experiences.


The Sage
Motto: The truth will set you free
Core desire: to find the truth.
Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world.
Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance.
Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes.
Weakness: can study details forever and never act.
Talent: wisdom, intelligence.
The Sage is also known as: The expert, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, professional, mentor, teacher, contemplative.
The ExplorerMotto: Don't fence me in
Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world
Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life
Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness
Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom
Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit
Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one's soul
The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim

Character Research "Revise"

I looked at more characters some suggested to me I looked a samurai jack, Esmeralda, Norgaimi.


Some Artist
Esmeralda - Jean Gillmore

http://www.jeangillmore.com/

 

She fits the gypsy/nomadic feel i was going for with my character. Looking in to longer hair or pin up styles of hair during the medieval times. The gracefulness of her clothing is important for it allows for freedom of movement. 

Samurai Jack - Dexter Smith
http://dexter-smith.blogspot.com/

Samurai Jack was a nomadic character with one goal in mind to defeat the evil that spread about his homeland. Look into giving my character a more purposeful goal that fits within her world. Also pay attention to the use of line in his clothing and weapon design. 

Ps. 

I don't own any of these characters or pictures they came from Living Lines Library 

Character research "Revise"

I decide to look into the Medieval times along with Romani gypsies or nomadic Romani people lifestyles to give more to my character background through her clothing.


http://www.livescience.com/40652-facts-about-roma-romani-gypsies.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/roma1.htm


The look into how the Romani people where treated during the medieval times also how they dressed back then. The Romani people were always treated as a minority because they are usually apart of another culture. They are a dependent nation or culture.


Who are the Romani People

Looking at their connection with the English for my story since my main character family name comes from the house of Lancaster. Lancaster a royal family house


http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheLancastrians/TheLancastrians.aspx


The wars of the Roses
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-war-of-the-roses


The family Tree of the Lancaster's line
http://www.britroyals.com/plantagenet.htm
- What would happen if a section of the Lancaster family line escaped ruin and mysterious disappeared without a trace during the battle of roses.

Character Backstory Revise

Backstory
          Dedra was born of noble rank from the high court with in the middle kingdom for which her noble title was Divine Dedra Lancaster. She came from the highest of the people who lived in the middle kingdom even though she was a noble she didn't agree with the treatment of the native people who were as she was told under her in rank. She was always interested in the common people's culture. However she was told to never associate with the people directly and by herself having being at a young age of ten at the time. 
          However Dedra loved the culture of the common people along with their music she would often go out at night to visit the town in which they would host small festivals with folk music. However one night when she visited the town their were criminals about having no knowledge of this she head right into danger and she was kidnapped. The criminals sent ransom demands to her parents the duke and duchess who refused to deal with them and abandon their daughter. Therefore the criminals decided to throw the girl to the mist. 
          Where by the stroke of luck she was found  by some tribesman who took her in as one of their own. They taught her how to survive in the wilds and about the dangers of the mist. There was one law within the tribe which was to stay away from it. The mist was the protection given to the middle kingdom by the horn god it would drive anyone insane if they remain in it to long, and it was hard if not impossible to navigate. 
           Four years later the girl has grown up in the wilds learning about the culture of the tribesman and becoming a excellent healer and decent fighter. However the fight with in her to know the truth about why her family abandon her made her ambitious to renter the middle kingdom even if it meant renting the mist.  So one night when the carven was its closest to the mist that hid the middle kingdom she went out and tried her best to get through it only to get lost. 
          The mist started to seep into her mind and she started to go insane. Just when she was on the brink of losing it she heard someone crying for help. She followed the voice and stumbles on creature that appeared almost human. He was trapped in what appeared to be a bear trap.  She ends up saving the boy who as it turns out was a disciple of the Horn god. The horn god appeared to her and gave a piece of his horn exchange for her reusing his disciple and showed her the way out of the mist. He told her that his gate was the only way to renter the middle kingdom and just like that he vanished. Knowing she could no longer go back to her tribe for have disobeyed the law she went out on her journey to find the Horn god's gateway.

Her Goal 
She wishes to learned of a way to renter the middle kingdom that doesn't involve going through the mist and has set out on a quest to find the Horn gods gate way.


Meet Dedra
-- A Fun loving person who loves to travel around however she does become serious when it comes to medical work. She loves to solve mysteries if they will lead her to the truth behind her family which is the one ambition that follows her around like a dark cloud. However she stills hates to see injustice done to others which is the reason she wanted to become a healer begging the masters in the tribe to teach her. She has weakness for soft fabric and mushrooms because they both remind her of homelands and her past.


Found a book in the library the talks more about the views within the peoples mind during medieval times Called "The Medieval Mind a history of western philosophy" by W.T. Jones.

Some the key points 
_ Chapter God's Nature 
_ Chapter God- Reality 
_ Providence, Evil, And Free Will  

Dedra

Character turn around sheet.

Assignment review

During this assignment i took a story i had pre - made an made a new character for the was a mash-up of both my little cousins personalities. I had fun looking at nomadic tribes and different body shapes from different artists such as Larson abigail, and Monge, Jean - Baptiste. I did however find it difficult when i had to produce the psychology part of my character bio.

http://www.jbmonge.com
http://carlynlim.com
http://www.abigaillarson.com

background design

looking at different worlds and environments I can see my character in that fits my story.

From Dragon age "The Fade"

How I envision the world around my character.

- The Environment to the story is the wilds

charchter shapes and skeleton

Looking at other character shapes and designs creating the height and shape of my character.

                   change different face shapes and eye design i wanted her to appear tired

I decided to make her appear short and young so I used 5 1/2 heads

character bio con.

Sex - Female
Age - 14
Physical Defects
 - Brand mark on her back
 - Tribal tattoos
 - black rings under eyes
 Heredity
 - Eye - color - golden honey pupils with smoky gray iris - symbol of nobility
 - Hair - Black


  


Backstory
She was born of noble rank from the high court of the middle kingdom in the void. The world of sprits and demons with the middle kingdom the only safe place according to law. However she was kidnapped at the age of eight by several tribesmen hoping to sell her back for a high ransom. However her parents the duke an duchess refused to buy into the idea to pay money to common thieves . Therefore they decided to abandon their daughter to the wilds in which the tribesman lived. They decided to take the young child in a raise her as one of their own. Nine years later she has grown up in the wilds moving from place to place with her new family having become a part of the tribe.

Character bio con.

Sociology
- Class
  - Ex. Noble status
  - Nomad
- Education
  - Well Educated taught by some of the finest teachers during her childhood
- Occupation
  - Head Healer
- Religion
  - Study of the Horned Gods

Character "Bio"

Psychology
1. Sex life - None
2. Morality - Has a broken sense of what's right and wrong often will make mistakes that without guilty unless its about her people.
- Virtues                            - Lack
  Honesty (bluntly)              Temperance (no self-control)
  Loyal


3. Ambitions - She wants to see all of the world and bring an end to the city
4. Temperament - Moody - Tends to change her views
5. Complexes - Has a weakness for adventure and animals " Has a bad history with nobles and city life.
6. Extrovert and Introvert
  - She is a little of both depending on the person or place
7. Talents
  - Healer
  - Good Tracker
9. Traits
   - Humble, Helpful
   - Sarcastic, Impulsive, Childish

Character research

I some research material on clothing style for nomadic people looking at actual photos of fashion designs, realistic photos, and game and animation character designs.


Romani influence
http://romafacts.uni-graz.at/index.php/culture/introduction/roma-culture-an-introduction
o Traditional

o Sketches

artist videos 

https://www.youtube.com/user/Toonboxstudio

https://www.youtube.com/user/novacolonyshow

designing the character "research"

o Character who lives in the wild.....


- looking at a character I found interesting from a game called dragon age inquisition
           "Solas"

 Do not own characters

From dragon age

- looking at old style character from power puff girls