Workshop 5: Creating Characters

1. Looks like normal mother with button eyes

- dresses like the real mother

- softer/rounder edges - hips, head, knees, elbows

- clothes are basic design, no patterns, covers most of her body

2. head + nose - pointier/sharp

- sleeves get shorter

- Addition of red to colour palette

- starting to get beetle shape from apron

- long baggy pants keep idea of softness

3. all the weight has moved to hips/bum 

- Accents beetle shape of dress.

- red, black, white, more pattern, better/tighter

- fit, more skin showing. 

- getting bigger, longer + pointer - stretched neck, pointed, elbows, shorter hair -

pointed head +  nose.

4. scissors/twig like - very skinny

- huge height increase - compared to oven

- pointy head/elbows

- high heels

- full black outfit - red shoes

- little/no fat left on body, lots of skin showing

5. skinless, needle like, no face, paper thin

- has grown extra legs, fractured bones

- looks alien - not human like

- clothes are more like tattered rags

- very tall

- has become hunched over

*Gradual changes over time

- takes more time to notice

- looks can be deceiving

- changes as Coraline's perception of her changes

* Start -  colour is warm, inviting by the end is green, unnatural + creepy