Another successful week’s work all round.
After some discussion about the mood boards which everyone had created, Madevi turned the attention towards creating monsters: what makes something scary doesn’t have a simple explanation. Is it the colour? Is it the shape? Is the thing reminiscent of something else?
In terms of our groups, it turns out all of these things were very important.
Unsurprisingly, dark colours (browns, greys and black) were identified as being important, when the monster is to be scary, but cold colours – blues and greens – were equally popular. When the monster is a little more friendly, brighter colours were used.
Horns, fangs, claws – sharp shapes – were very popular. The bug-type monster which has been created, and we reckon the twisting antennae are also part of these sharp shapes.
Most of all, however, scary eyes took pride of place. One, three eyes, blood-shot eyes, wobbling eyes. There are eyes all over these monsters – and they’ll be watching you …
We created 8 monsters – of different shapes, textures and demeanours – and they’ll be running riot in some pixelations very soon, once the paint, glue and glitter has dried!
