Month: November 2023

For the actual main character i decided the younger sister in my animatic should be the one to witness everything happening infront of her as her older sister gets in trouble with the morality police. This is a very simple design for her character design but this would work well once being animated , The colour choices are a bit weirdly chosen however from the references i has this is the best one that would work well .

What i also noticed when making every character is that iranian women usually dont care about what colour hijab they wear , since theyre not so fond of it and are forced on to it , which is why it shows the weird concept of both red and pink and blue being a match for when every character such as the two sisters , leading a double life.

This was my first character design that i created , again i had no concept of what iranian women dressed like , more like an interpretation of what they wore. i wanted my character to be a young girl , however again once i got third party opinion , the character designs looked more of an arab than an iranian. so i had to change it up a bit more.

I was sent images of how iranian women / students dress in iran and this gave me an opening and newer ideas to develop my character design more.

This waa my final character design for the second main character , i also had changed my idea from having one character design to 3 .

This was just experimenting with the different designs i had planned in one of the scenes , where she would rip her face off from leading a double life that shes not happy with. i decided to colour it in on the right however as i recieved feedback from my tutors , the one on the left is more powerful so i thought if there would be a chance where i could add this piece within the animatic.

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.

for our summer project we had to make a triptych for 3 ideas , and out of those 3 ideas only one would get pitched or picked to be chosen for the 25 projects that are being produced for the FMP.

I was at the time very confused on what i wanted to animate or to pitch, i had no ideas , however i thought of the two things that are a big major issue in my life as of the moment , my religion , and my culture.

For my first idea i thought i could use the issues within my own country to animate the bigger picture and get the word across , and my second idea i thought of my religion (islam) to show the impact or the hate i would get regarding the issue of the hijab with the womens freedom rights act in iran. And the last idea was a blur but since i thought it as a triptych i wanted to use photography , not the best idea nor the strongest but it would have been a good idea to use within my work.

This was my presentation , i kept it very minimal and simple to get the word of it across more directly and professionally.