In regards to the theme of ‘a cockroach secret agent fighting a lizard in a sewer’, I decided to create a mind map in Week 1 to explore different concepts and ideas surrounding it. This work focuses on the given theme and the deconstruction of the character, place, and situation as keywords so that I can delve more deeply into what I can create with them.
I used a mind map because it is easier to use a graphical way of sorting through ideas and concepts and seeing how they link together, so that I have a clear idea of what steps to take next.
I drew inspiration from the opening of ‘Batman The Animated Series’ in the initial character design of the ‘cockroach’ and also regarding the general atmosphere of mystery with the use of shadow and lighting.
Through this work, I examined the given theme, and came up with the concept of ‘survival of the fittest’ to support it. I hope to have the idea of ‘the inevitability of defeat to a stronger opponent’ explored and presented in the following weeks leading up to AN Folio 1.
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