Animated narrative week 11

This work examines the art style of combining cute and creepy. In the character design, a rabbit shape is used to create the basic shape of the cute voodoo doll. The stitched scares and pins are added to increase the creepy features.

By using the combination of rabbit ears’ shape and scares, I am able to achieve a mixed feeling of cute and creepy. Overall, all those assets of the game have influence on players feeling when they play the game.

Similar work has been produced by Peter Safran and James Wan named Annabelle which also used a doll toy to create a horror image. There is also a movie named Dead Silence by James Wan use that kind of toys to achieve the same effect.

This work has been refined based on the feedback of group discussion. Initially the idea was a doll toy moving in the shadow which was largely inspired by James Wan’s movies. After discussion, an interesting point has been made which is changing the character into its own shadow who wants to go back to its body. Then I decided to improve the concept as that idea which will explain the motivation of character’s behaviour and set a reasonable goal for players.