Hi Jen - love the fact you did some primary research at your youth club - that shows initiative, good stuff - though it does seem as if your participants liked lots of different styles! I'm just going to respond to what I'm seeing in your thumbnails: I'd just question the very gendered cell you seem fond of - the one-eyed, long-lashed lady cell. I wonder if it's misleading scientifically to gender your character in this way, because it might confuse people re. human reproduction, so ovaries etc.? I can see the point of gendering the chromatids (as they're described as sisters), but should the cell be so obviously 'a girl'? I actually like the clean symmetry of thumbnails of 10, 11, 12, & 13 - they look like sweets or marbles or beads - very tactile and pleasing:
There's also something in thumbnail 43 that reminds me of toys - that table in the middle - so marbles + table-top toys is making me think of stuff like this:
I think you could keep things lovely and clean and simple and maybe present the cell-cycle as a 'marble run' - and if you're getting into mitosis (so inside the marble) - you could move inside one of the spheres and present the process inside as also made of 'toy parts' - so looking at simple clean shapes and simple expressions of action and movement, as in simple automata toys or similar?
For me, it's the simple, clean 'toy-like' aspects of your thumbnails that feel very appealing - and I wonder if thinking of the cell-cycle as a toy - like a marble run? - might be a neat way of staying simple but using the language of toys to appeal to your audience?
OGR 15/03/17
ReplyDeleteHi Jen - love the fact you did some primary research at your youth club - that shows initiative, good stuff - though it does seem as if your participants liked lots of different styles! I'm just going to respond to what I'm seeing in your thumbnails: I'd just question the very gendered cell you seem fond of - the one-eyed, long-lashed lady cell. I wonder if it's misleading scientifically to gender your character in this way, because it might confuse people re. human reproduction, so ovaries etc.? I can see the point of gendering the chromatids (as they're described as sisters), but should the cell be so obviously 'a girl'? I actually like the clean symmetry of thumbnails of 10, 11, 12, & 13 - they look like sweets or marbles or beads - very tactile and pleasing:
https://corncorps.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/marbles-014.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/914M5FTwlgL._SL1500_.jpg
There's also something in thumbnail 43 that reminds me of toys - that table in the middle - so marbles + table-top toys is making me think of stuff like this:
https://vimeo.com/108522110
https://vimeo.com/8582198
https://vimeo.com/156227595
I think you could keep things lovely and clean and simple and maybe present the cell-cycle as a 'marble run' - and if you're getting into mitosis (so inside the marble) - you could move inside one of the spheres and present the process inside as also made of 'toy parts' - so looking at simple clean shapes and simple expressions of action and movement, as in simple automata toys or similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-uX8y7K2wU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUo9cRyYH7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzjAmPFND8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmLs1ekjeE
For me, it's the simple, clean 'toy-like' aspects of your thumbnails that feel very appealing - and I wonder if thinking of the cell-cycle as a toy - like a marble run? - might be a neat way of staying simple but using the language of toys to appeal to your audience?
Hi Phil, thank you for your comment. I love the idea of a marble run. I'll start sketching some ideas! :)
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