Drawings before modelling.
My overall design for this project was a little girl representing the Chinese lantern festival (or moon festival), different from Chinese people’s original imagination, my design tends to be valuable in business which is more generally accepted and kid-friendly. So the overall looking and general style was decided for this purpose (to make the character dis-ageing)
As a country with a 5,000-year history of changing dynasties, China’s cultural heritage and artistic and cultural level can be said to be at the top of the world. Compared with other countries with a shorter history, the complexity of traditional Chinese culture is very difficult to easily pass through modern times. way to present. This was the first challenge I encountered after starting the project. As early as 4,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese had made countless wonderful fantasies about the moon. The most well-known ones are the stories of Chang’e flying to the moon and Hou Yi shooting the sun, which are related to the sun and the moon. The legend of Chang’e flying to the moon first appeared in folk groups. They imagined that there was an equally beautiful girl living on the beautiful full moon, and they also began to conceive how the girl landed on the moon, so they began to talk about ” Chang’e” concept. They said that this beautiful woman must have been on the moon to protect her husband, because the moon at night looks very lonely in the dark night, and she is full of misses for the earth. She chose to exchange all her afterlife with God for her lover, living alone on the moon in exchange for her husband’s health. Such a tragic and beautiful story was circulated among the people, and at the same time, people’s sympathy was also flooded for this woman, so they called the day when the moon was the roundest and brightest in the year as the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the Moon Festival. , In order to commemorate this woman’s ascension to the sky and to make her less lonely, people will make non-perishable desserts-moon cakes on this day to satisfy the cravings of the girl in the sky.
So far, the image of such a miserable, brave and beautiful woman has remained in people’s hearts for thousands of years, but the only regret is that the spirit of dedication and beautiful character cannot be well conveyed to children who are not yet mature. The reason why I chose to design the characters as little girls not only retains the original beauty of women, but also makes the image of Chang’e more acceptable and understandable to children. The lovely proportions and facial expressions of the characters and the traditional Chinese costumes make my works gradually perfect.
Just as the story of Chang’e flying to the moon has many folk versions, there are so many elements related to the Mid-Autumn Festival that it is difficult to choose. This includes the design of ancient Chinese court costumes, paintings related to the ancient Chinese moon, and the depiction of the main characters in the story. There are many different versions and interpretations of these necessary elements. Therefore, for the purpose of making this project, I chose the most widely circulated version in the world, and integrated the design concepts of the full moon, ancient court women’s hairstyles, and ancient skirt design to complete the final design draft.