Topic 2– Future
Research of Organic Shapes
Questions:
1.Have you looked at nature closely and ever found stunning shapes and patterns?
If you haven’t, please do that now.
2.Once you found those amazing things, can you re-interpret them into your own version of forms or patterns to adopt to your design?
Learning Objective:
Given the chosen costume style, you will be able to research organic shapes and explain the plan to derive futuristic images from them and the rationale for your choice.
Project Description & Criteria
•Choose one of the given options of nature for organic shapes. Once you decide on one area you will research for design inspiration. For this project, you are not requested to know scientific background story of the picture you found, but you should know in which direction you will re-form the raw resources.
1. plants 2. cells 3. animals 4. sea creatures
•Before you start working, please read the rubric for this topic 2 carefully.
•When you research the shapes and patterns, please look closely at the details on organic objects.
•Gather all your searched visual resources and place them on a document and describe why you chose the shapes, which details you found, and how you would apply them to your character design. Just write that briefly, about 5 to 7 lines.
•Submit and post your assignment in PDF format into the external Wiki site linked at the Submission page (also, please see above, the menu bar to find it). And, please give comments and critique actively to your peers (your content of critique will not be graded).
•For your better understanding of this task, you may refer to the example no. 1 in Topic 4 (Interpretation) and examples provided for this Topic 2.