Manimals | clairegolbymue

I thought I'd start off with some initial ideas/design sketches for my manimal makeup. By doing a few, I can see which animals might translate best into a makeup.nI decided that to get a better grasp of human/animal anatomy and how the could work in conjunction would be to start drawing. I thought if i drew a face and then drew the animal face over it, I could see potentially how to figure out a combination of the two - a hybrid. In a sense, I want to try and create my own 'Manimals', as I think that idea could be taken forth and developed into a makeup.

Sketches/Manimals

For this 'turtle man', I started by slanting the eyes slightly upwards, not unrealistically, but so they slightly more resembled the turtle's eyes. I also widened and rounded them more. I decided that having the eyes just black would've been too unrealistic so I drew them to look human to keep the hybrid element.

I decided making him an alderly character would help with this design, as adding some of the texture from the turtle in the form of wrinkles made sense as a translation. So I added deep wrinkles around his eyes, again in a circular shape, not strictly like traditional human wrinkles. I then also added some around the cheeks and mouth. I transposed the shape of the inner turtle mouth onto the humans face and made the lips very thin and eldery to translate the turtle mouth element.

Putting the nostrils on the forhead would've been silly, so for the nose I just altered the shape of the nostrils to be more oval like the turtles.

I also changed the forehead shape to look more rectangular, and countoured it slightly like the turtle's patterning.

Overall i'm really happy with it and can see it being done as a makeup. I think a lot of it could be done with either latex wrinkles or prosthetic pieces for them. I think i'd either have to find a model with the right eyes or do that on photoshop and I think it would have to be a similar process with the mouth.

After reassesing the perameters defined by the project assesment objectives, I have decided not to take these ideas any further than initial designs, as it would be too much work. I have re-assesed my work load and distributed it to other designs and pratical ideas. I found this method of designing helpful though in creating hybrids; thinking about how to converge certain facial characteristics.

I did also find an app which I think could help aid the design process for future hybridised creations, called Face Film. It morphs 2 selected images together so you can see the transofrmational process.

I tried it out with a picture of myself and a few different animal faces.