What is my thought process? The first thing that comes to mind is the kind of feel or vibe i want my animation to have. The first thing that came to mind was something colourful, with and innocent or childish vibe. Therefore my product would be better suited for kids or families.
So this was my first artist reference for the style i want to go for. It is colourful and childish, i want to make a product that’s fun for kids and inspired by the concept of childhood, as nostalgia is a big part of my art.
Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets Cereal Commercial from Power puff Girls
The first type of commercial that came to mind was cereal commercials. I used to love them as a kid and remembered this scene in Power puff Girls.
I like the landscape in this scene, the open fields and i like the simple idea of a kid getting something stuck in a tree and needing to retrieve it. So I thought of making a product that would be fun and useful for a kid in that aspect.
First Ideas
This is a collection of first drafts of product ideas made from mind maps, so the sketches are very rough and simple just to convey my idea and thought process before furthering and design.
My first initial idea was to create something fun and useful for kids as a target audience, this idea would be ideal to use for animation as the product includes a lot of elasticity, which means more opportunity for squash and stretch For this idea i can still use my first initial art style i had hoped to use but would change the colour palette to have more cool tones especially blues,purples and some yellows. I thought it would be nice to have a product that can appeal to those who have lost a loved one, I also love working with the concept of ghosts and the dead as i have worked previously with making stories and universes based on them.I had asked some people for their their take on what an ideal product would be if they could have anything, and most want something that helps with transport and mobility, so i decided to create a product that would be very useful for disabled people or the elderly who have trouble moving a lot. To make the animation more appealing to the eyes and not so boring i would probably showcase an elderly doing crazy stunts to add some humour value to the commercial.
So far your branch of ideas are very clear and creative! It was also smart for the last idea to ask a real audience on their ideas of a functional product! Personally, I love the idea of the elastic bands for the kids; there is a lot of crazy animation stunts you could give them when using it.
What you could expand on more is the mobility brace and can find some references for leg braces and see how the movement will work in animation if you choose this idea. Can also find references for the gummy arm, like in a scene in Toy Story 4 the character Bo Peep uses an elastic toy hand to go through tall places.
Overall, I'm very excited to see more concepts and sketches on your ideas or your final idea and good luck with your research!
Hi Nathalie!😃❤
Thanks so much for your comment and suggestions! I will try to look for more references for my stretchy arm idea as that’s the one im going for 😊
Hi Nur, I really like all of your ideas, they’re wholesome and really improve someone’s quality of life. The second one is maybe a bit hard to convey in a 30s TVC, and the third one will pose quite challenging body mechanics animation. So I think the stretchy arms idea is the most appealing and the most viable for you to do. Just my thoughts!
Hi Nur!
I love yours ideas and blog layouts! It really represent you.
Maybe include more sketches on different design on the products, it tells like your working thought process as you designing them.
Overall awesome work! All the best with your work and can’t wait to see the final thing!
-Adilla
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Hi Nur! ❤
So far your branch of ideas are very clear and creative! It was also smart for the last idea to ask a real audience on their ideas of a functional product! Personally, I love the idea of the elastic bands for the kids; there is a lot of crazy animation stunts you could give them when using it.
What you could expand on more is the mobility brace and can find some references for leg braces and see how the movement will work in animation if you choose this idea. Can also find references for the gummy arm, like in a scene in Toy Story 4 the character Bo Peep uses an elastic toy hand to go through tall places.
Overall, I'm very excited to see more concepts and sketches on your ideas or your final idea and good luck with your research!
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Hi Nathalie!😃❤
Thanks so much for your comment and suggestions! I will try to look for more references for my stretchy arm idea as that’s the one im going for 😊
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Hi Nur, I really like all of your ideas, they’re wholesome and really improve someone’s quality of life. The second one is maybe a bit hard to convey in a 30s TVC, and the third one will pose quite challenging body mechanics animation. So I think the stretchy arms idea is the most appealing and the most viable for you to do. Just my thoughts!
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Hi Danny, thank you for your comment, yes Alan has approved my first idea and im going for that one so yayyyy 👏👏👏
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Hi Nur!
I love yours ideas and blog layouts! It really represent you.
Maybe include more sketches on different design on the products, it tells like your working thought process as you designing them.
Overall awesome work! All the best with your work and can’t wait to see the final thing!
-Adilla
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Thank you for the comment Adilla! I will be designing the product and packaging a little more later on once i have a solid story idea 🙂
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