[COP3]Reading reflects on your Practical investigation

I am planning to have two practical works to approach to explain the techniques in creating an anthropomorphised character that invoke empathy. The first practical will be creative drawing practise on an object. Experimenting about 10 pieces of character design on the same object in order to encourage more creative think and considering the anatomy and structure of the object as well. This is an experiment from the text. I noticed that there is not much explanation about creating an anthropomorphised inanimate object except the sac test. What makes a character communicate with audience is their first look. A good, interesting anthropomorphic inanimate object character should be visually appealing but also it must move with its own feature. It is all about the creativity and also try to be innovative also studying from the case study, analysing characters' appearance.

This practical answers the questions: we could only anthropomorphise non-human organisms in the way we live because we can not do otherwise. In animation wise would it prevent animators from exploring capabilities and potential of the animals or objects themselves, by coercive power of the orthodox methods and our stereotyped interpretation?

The second practical would be an animation of the object in the first practical, giving it personality and emotion, possibly a stage as well to test my prediction and the whether the theory applies on objects as well. I want the character to invoke empathy and allow audience to feel and care about it so it is essential to have a story or background to enhance the character.

This would answer the question: how a fully developed character could invoke empathy from the audience?

I wish to discover something new through the practical work and at this stage I think it might be able to answer the question. It is quite relevant. The thing I concerned is that I made the decision of the practical too soon.. I feel like there are still a lot of possible methods to solve my problem. Besides, I hope to find out more through evaluating the texts when writing. However, considering the time, we do not have much time left if I do not start the practical now especially if I want to create an animation. Therefore I think the best thing to do now is to continue writing the dissertation and start the practical. It would not be wrong to test out some anthropomorphic characters anyway so even if there are big changes, I still have some development work I could talk about in the dissertation.