my idea for irans womens freedom got picked for the 25 projects and i became a director for the film , i was at that time clueless on how to start the animation since it is a very huge subject and a very controversial topic, so i tried to research more into the subject , and my biggest research was my family members in Iran, specifically my auntie who works in an arts school in Iran.
she recommended me a movie to understand starting points of an animation and when everything happened.
the movie was called ” persepolis ” by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud A very old animation that broke down everything about the iranian revolution in 1979.
This animatic gave me some type of idea on how to make a start to my animation , however i needed characters and character designs , so i had to research more into the clothing styles of iranian women , and the morality police.
I had a very rough idea at first for the start of the animatic which was supposed to be my main character smoking by a window as shes witnessing the crowd behind her or almost invisioning it , i wanted to achieve this through green screening the moving videos.
Once i showed my auntie she didn’t necessarily think that was a iranian thing to do nor is it a very powerful start to an animation.
so i tried more researching and i had some reference photos which helped me a lot to create a new character design.