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This document provides an outline and interim critique for a project called "Familiars" by Kayliegh Anderson. The project explores anxiety by personifying it as different animals. It includes descriptions from people about how their anxiety feels like different animals such as an armadillo, bird, deer, ferret, snake, and spider. Kayliegh has created branding for the project in black and white and designed her own font based on her handwriting. She has drawn the deer behavior and created animatics. Kayliegh is also sculpting the animals out of wire and modeling them in Maya to create an animated short raising awareness about mental illness.

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Familiars Interim Crit Pres

This document provides an outline and interim critique for a project called "Familiars" by Kayliegh Anderson. The project explores anxiety by personifying it as different animals. It includes descriptions from people about how their anxiety feels like different animals such as an armadillo, bird, deer, ferret, snake, and spider. Kayliegh has created branding for the project in black and white and designed her own font based on her handwriting. She has drawn the deer behavior and created animatics. Kayliegh is also sculpting the animals out of wire and modeling them in Maya to create an animated short raising awareness about mental illness.

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familiars

Interim Critique
Kayliegh Anderson

project outline
Familiars is a project in which I am exploring the theme of Anxiety.
It personifies peoples anxiety as animals. Using the information I have
been provided w ith I am exploring w ays in which to show the animals
behaviour to then create an animated short. My aim of this animation is
to raise aw areness around mental illness.

branding
The nature of Familiars is an honest w ay of looking at mental
illness and therefore I felt that its branding should both match its
expressive style and be simple.

Ive kept the colours to only


black and white and designed my
own font around my handwriting.

armadillo
"I see my anxiety as an armadillo. It tries
to hide by curling into a ball, but I know its
alw ays there. Sometimes it comes out.
Sometimes it show s itself, before
retreating to the back of my mind where it
nags at me. It hides, but it never truly
goes aw ay.

bird
"I see my anxiety as a bird. It starts off small.
It sits on my shoulder, making me irritable. It
doesnt really w ant to hurt me. It thinks its
protecting me but it becomes a nuisance and
pecks aw ay at me. Over time it grow s into
something unbearable. I feel it w eighing me
down. It uses its claw s to perch and prey on
me, figuring out the best w ay to change me, to
carry me off in a different direction."

deer
When I think about my anxiety, the first thing
that comes to mind is a doe. They're quiet and
gentle, but alw ays on edge and over aw are, like
they're expecting something to jump out and
attack. They don't have the large antlers to
defend themselves. That's how I feel
sometimes - not being able to defend myself. I
just freeze - like a deer in the headlights.

ferret

If my anxiety w ere an animal I think it would


be a ferret. Ferrets are generally quite timid
and shy but even if they like you they'll bite
you. They dont mean to, but theyll hurt the
people they care about.

snake
My anxiety is best represented by a snake.
There are some days when it's only a small little
thing. There are others when it grow s into this
beast. It coils itself around me, suffocating and
unbearable. Its bite leaves me bitter tow ards
the world. This cold-blooded creature only cares
for itself, but it pretends it cares for me.

spider
A spider is the best representation of my
anxiety. Its deadly and near impossible to spot.
You know it's out there somewhere but youre
unsure as to where exactly. You might just step
on it or aggravate it. I could be w alking
somewhere feeling completely fine, the next
minute it scuttles out of nowhere leaving me
confused and irritable, its sole purpose to
paralyse me, to consume me bit by bit.

behaviour
The aim of the animation is
to show the behaviour of the
animals that have been
described.
Here are draw ings I have
completed for the Deer.
I have also completed
animatic first drafts to
begin to understand this
behaviour.

original orthographs

spider w ire sculpture

To create more successful


orthographs I have begun
using w ire to create my
animals.

new spider orthograph

maya work process

Create dummy model > Make surface live to create curves ontop of it > Paint curves > Convert to Polygons

spider initial modelling

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