Project #4 Exquisite Corpse

Partners

Emilio Lari
Jinxin Li
Yuan Zhang

Design Process

My character was inspired by my dog, Nangkong. She always carries her blanky everywhere she goes. If she can't find her blanky, she gets anything similar--clothes, towels, carpets--and covers all her bodies except her nose.

Our group has four members, so each one of us picked two sketches to start off this project. We exchanged the one-sentence description of each character and filled up the background stories with our imagination. Jinxin's character was "a old emoji-man who lives in the emoji world. He secretly wants to be a dancing star". Yuan's was a Martian water with sanil's eyes.

New Background Story

The new background story of my sketch is a journey of a dog emoji in the emoji world finds her lost legs. Nangkong used to have a short and cut set of legs which she was very proud of. Her one and only dream was becoming a number one dancing star in the emoji world. She practices dancing every day and night to participate in the upcoming dance tornements scheduled a day before ios 14.0 updates. One day she woke up, she found out someone took her legs while she was sleeping. It was only two days before the dancing tournement, so she got very upset and started crying in front of her home. A emoji-designer who was on a business trip to the emoji-word saw her missing legs and said, "If you don't mind, I can draw you new legs." Since then, Nangkong got the long, pointy legs and these helped her to try a lot of different position that she wasn't able to do with her original legs. Guess what, Nangkong won the dancing competition!

Reflection

I genuinely enjoyed this project, especially becauase of the collaborative part. It was a lot of fun to explore the characters of partnets and create new one by combining the most interesting idea out of our sketches.