I was tasked with doing a group project alongside my fellow classmates Lee, Emma and Niamh, where we had to come up with one-hundred ideas for fictional worlds within a given time frames. We came up with 82 concepts, each of which is listed below:

1. Zombie Apocalypse.
2. Everyone disappears (except us).
3. Vampire kingdom.
4. World controlled by evil circus.
5. Giant monsters roam the planet.
6. World is one week away from being wiped out.
7. Ghost apocalypse.
8. Giant mutated insects.
9. Sentient hair world.
10. Cave with strange creatures.
11. Mutated people (experiment gone wrong).
12. Virus wipes out anyone above the age of 30.
13. A creature that manifests your fears.
14. Monster living inside earth.
15. Blood ocean.
16. Sharknado.
17. Babies turn evil and grown.
18. Plants start growing really fast and take over world.
19. Sentient shadows.
20. Things you see in a nightmare become real.
21. Everyone has to live underground due to toxic air.
22. World ruled by evil wizard.
23. Dragon world.
24. World engulfed in darkness.
25. People are humanized versions of food.
26. Everyone has wings.
27. Everyone has powers.
28. The sky is water.
29. Floating islands.
30. modern day + fantasy creatures.
31. World ruled by the seasons as kingdoms.
32. Everyone are urban legends (sea monster people, etc.).
33. The earth is flat.
34. The earth is a donut.
35. The earth is one a turtle.
36. We are turtles.
37. Everyone is part animal = spirit animal.
38. The moon is the size of the sun.
39. Blacksmith kingdom.
40. Everyone is born as an element.
41. Kingdom inside eel stomach.
42. People can casually access.parallel universes.
43. Health is the new currency.
44. Fantastical weather.
45. Hollow earth.
46. Trees whispers spells in the wind.
47. Timeloop kingdom.
48. Sentient rocks.
49. Men give birth instead.
50. Animals talk.
51. People can ascend to become gods by being cooler.
52. Alien planet.
53. Water planet.
54. Robot apocalypse.
55. Crystal planet.
56. No livable planets, everyone lives on ships.
57. Magma planet.
58. Mobius strip planet.
59. Everyone has bionic limbs.
60. Evil rich man is creating super soldiers (robots).
61. Robots fight for equality.
62. Glass planet.
63. Mushroom planet.
64. Humanity vs. aliens.
65. Inconsistent gravity planet.
66. The rapture.
67. No sound planet.
68. Clock planet.
69. Tidally locked planet (no day/night cycle).
70. Mall in the middle of space.
71. Stars etc. are celestial beings.
72. Randomized DNA creature planet.
73. Humanity forced to live underground after apocalypse.
74. Time travel.
75. Accelerated healing planet.
76. Alien babies sent to earth with crazy super powers. But instead of Superman they are evil.
77. Skatepark planet.
78. Drive through in space.
79. Inside out planet.
80. Cheese planet.
81. Weed planet.
82. Planet of the apes.

We were then told to narrow our ideas down to only five; the remaining concepts are:

1.Fantastical weather.

2.Dragon world.

3.Stars are celestial beings.

4.Floating islands.

5. Ghost apocalypse.

Our next order of business is to settle on a singular idea, possibly through combining some of our ideas into a singular world.

For my first assignment under this module, I was asked to choose three characters and find their underlying form through tracing. For the sake of the variety I chose an anime character, an american cartoon character and a character from an indie multimedia project.

The first character I chose was Serufu Yua, the protagonist of the 2022 anime, Do It Yourself!! (charcter designs by Yūsuke Matsuo). I chose this character because I find the round, stylized nature of her design quite appealing.

Next I chose the character of Beck, the protagonist of Tron Uprising (designed by Robert Valley). The show’s polygonal art style stood out in particular to me and so I thought they would lend themselves well to this project due to their angular nature.

Finally, I chose to do a study of Clair, the protagonist of Weilin Zhang’s I’ll Of You. Zhang’s work in anime is the type that consistently fills me with a sense of awe, especially given his relative youth compared to other inspirational greats. Studying his work from a structural perspective is something I hope will lead to an improvement in my own abilities as an artist, which is why I used this project as starting point for that goal.

In conclusion, I found this assignment quite beneficial in developing my artistic eye, as I have started to notice the underlying cylinders in the art hanging on my wall. However, I still feel I have a decently long way to go in being able to use them in my own art, as I found it difficult thinking about how to draw the faces of the cylinders from certain angles, and how to convey those angles with so few lines.So I hope I can use this assignment as inspiration to put more effort into learning art fundamentals to allow for stronger posing in my animations.