I decided to make a mood board to help Hannah push the
Caterpillar design. Here I have included images of Smaug the Dragon because
they have captured so much character in a non human face. Smaug also has a
similar perceived personality to the caterpillar, he’s highly intelligent,
extremely confrontational and he also appears to talk in riddles. So Smaugs
design elements that get across his personality so well even in a still image
should be transplanted into out caterpillar where we can.
I’ve also grabbed images of the most drastic and oddly
shaped caterpillars I could find. Some of these have many huge and frequent
protrusions; some appear to be wearing large hairy coats. I was hoping that these
images could help push the silhouette, or simply add further areas of interest,
maybe textually or by adding personality.
After creating this mood board I realised that I hadn’t
actively tried to only look for British caterpillars. Part of me thought that
there was room for him being foreign due to the style of pipe that he is
smoking. I then decided that this could be
risky, the British Library once marked a previous team down strongly due to
including chocolate fondants in a level that was set in a time before they
would have been available. So If were to base the caterpillar on a none native
British species and this was found out, the Library could question how the
Caterpillar came to be in an Oxford
forest talking to Alice. So can we do a well-travelled caterpillar? I don’t
know, also I’m not designing it so it isn’t my decision to make, but I have
disgust this with Hannah and the rest of the group. This question did make me
research British caterpillars and what was really nice to see was allot of the
interesting and tropical looking caterpillars are actually indigenous to
Britain. We have a wide and rich collection of caterpillars. Often it’s easy to
forget that Britain does have some amazing wildlife.
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