These are my initial character designs for the three protagonists of the music video I made for You Are Wolf's song, Drowndown. A mother and her young daughter are travelling through a forest when a mysterious river spirit tries to lure the little girl away from her mother, taking her to her beautiful watery realm beneath the river.
I drew inspiration for the designs from The Secret of Kells and The Little Prince. The colours draw upon autumnal forest colours for the girl and mother, and water, river colours for the spirit. I played about with making the spirit more of a greenish blue colour palette, however this made her too ominous looking for the narrative. For even though she is luring people away to an underwater world, she is not really bad or good, as she symbolizes the power of rivers and of nature, where it can be both beautiful and deadly.
This is the girl's armature, made from aluminium wire and miliput. She is a small puppet, only 9cm in height.
Armatures from left to right - girl, mother, spirit. The girl and mother both have not and bolt tie down systems in their feet to hold them onto the stage during animation, but the spirit does not as her feet never touch the ground - in all her shots she is either hovering in the air, sitting, or swimming. The spirit was suspended from a flying rig or tied down with wire when sitting on her rock.
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