May 26 - Jun 8: Caricature and Monster Research

 May 26 - Jun 8: Caricature

Caricature

Caricature is the process of creating/painting characters or people with wildly exaggerated features and proportions. This is typically used to poke fun at public figures or to characters for cartoonish mediums. This is a very common practice in animation, with larger than life characters being drawn with larger than life proportions.

In terms of the project, I am looking at how to create characters that embody their role in the story with their design. The aim with for a quite gritty design, using rough textures and hard lines/angles. Some references for this style would be the Dishonored Series and "The Tall grass" episode from "Love, Death and Robots"

Caricature is believed to have started as a fad amongst German and French nobility, but took off as an art form amongst the common media of Europe and America in the 18th century. The style was often used to make fun of political leaders and events of note.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZonZ8

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XlDAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8UBavfbVxI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature

Other

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/sponsored-by-amazon-web-services/how-amazon-nimble-studio-harnesses-the-cloud-to-speed-up-animation-production-205270.html?fbclid=IwAR2RGraZY1VTbEhtwBARicz0ARdGxemV2uaBQxxD3gJEChdIDaI4wUvezQY

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/712202128575105454/