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Charuca Vargas 2007

#charuca vargas #early web #robot #original character #3d art #(this is sadly not a figure... wish it was so i could have it lol) #(or rather dream about having it cause im broke lmao) #character design #tv head #screen face #cute robot #2000s #kawaii art #kawaii aesthetic

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By Charuca Vargas.

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Kawaii Halloween 🎃

#Charuca Vargas #Kawaii #Illustration #Halloween

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✨ 𝐻𝑜𝑦 𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑙 𝑑í𝑎 𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑎 𝑣í𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑗𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑎 𝑗𝑒𝑓𝑎✨ . Es hora de tomar acción, de lanzar a un lado la excusas y poner en pie esa idea 💡 que puede ser la que marque la diferencia, deja de pensar en lo que los otros dirán y toma la decisión de ser Jefa de tu vida. Hoy te comparto esta frase de la increíble @charuca y si no la conoces (que lo dudo) es una mujer empoderada, Jefa de su vida! Su nombre es Charo Vargas y en su marca #Charuca encontrarás una serie de herramientas poderosas para el crecimiento personal. Te invito a seguirla y escucharla en su Podcast. ¿Estás dispuesta a ser la Jefa de tu vida? Coméntame con tu Emoji favorito que tantas ganas tienes de ser tú propia Jefa! ⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️ . . . . Feliz miércoles 🌵 (en Guayaquil, Ecuador) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAau_uqBCSb/?igshid=17k4usr5d44ti

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Evaluation

Introduction

For this project I have been asked to create an animation on Adobe After Effects and create Kawaii style characters in a kitchen theme. I’ve also collaborated in a group which was given a task to draw kawaii characters in a sub-theme, which in this case is crockery.

Research

For this project, the main research I have collected is primary as well as secondary. For my primary research I have taken photos of crockery that we have at home to get ideas what characters I could create. For my secondary research I have researched the profiles and work done by different artists, which include Charuca Vargas, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. I have also researched different poster designs and written what I like about them and ideas of what elements could be used in my final poster. Other research I have collected include collecting photos online of kitchen interior styles and different appliances to collaborate in creating a kitchen backdrop.

I think that the primary research I have collected was useful as it helped me choose the design and style of the crockery when creating the crockery characters. I think the secondary research might have influenced the style of the faces and expressions of the kawaii characters I’ve created, but is still a different style to the styles of other kawaii artists. The further research was helpful as the photos of the appliances helped me to use as a reference of what style of appliance I could create for the backdrop.

Idea Generation

For idea generation, I have used a sketchbook to sketch out different facial expressions in general to come up with ideas what expressions to put onto the characters I’ve created as well as drawing many different types of crockery with facial expressions which a few of them have influenced my five final characters.

I feel like generating ideas on a sketchbook can be a lot easier than creating a brainstorm or mindmap, depending on what type of ideas I need to come up with. In this case I liked coming up with ideas of characters for the project via sketchbook.

Production in Adobe Ai and Ae

For this assingment, I have produced my final characters in Adobe Illustrator CC and created the final animation in Adobe After Effects CC. As I have just started learning how to use Adobe Illustrator and After Effects, I felt that I have struggled with creating the characters, as well as animating them. I also felt that I was more familiar with Adobe Illustrator, as it has some features which are similar and some the same as Adobe Photoshop, even though each software’s purpose is different. I felt that creating the animation was a whole new experience for me, as I have never created an animation before. Because of this I have decided to keep the final animation simple as I’ve finished it close to the deadline, as well as being new to learning the software.

Reflection Evaluation

For many of my finished pieces I have created this term, I have written how it went creating the final pieces on my blog on Tumblr. I have also been writing my weekly journals on a word document which I’ve written about what I have done, what new skills / things I’ve learned, what went well as well as what didn’t during the course of the week as well as how I felt the week went. I’ve also written what was left to do and stuff that I need to organise for the next week.

Working Collaboratively

I have also been put in a small group to collaborate in creating a backdrop for our animations. I think that working in a group for this type of project was good, as we mixed our different styles of what we can create in Illustrator. The one thing that didn’t really work was deciding who’s edit of an illustration to use, e.g. who’s backdrop edit to use for our final animation. I think that the advantages of collaborating together in a group is that many styles can be blended into one piece, which can turn out really good in many ways.

Targets

One of the targets I hope to achieve is to be able to create an improved and more detailed animation on Adobe After Effects, and I hope to learn more tools and features on Adobe Illustrator. I also hope to improve on my drawing style during the course of this year as well.

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What is Kawaii and why did people fall for it? 

Kawaii means cute in the Japanese culture. You can use this word to describe animated characters such as hello kitty. This became one of the most iconic “Kawaii “characters. This art style was made in the late 1960s and it has been picked up by many different artists and TV programs like Adventure Time.

Kawaii can mainly be anything, this could be ranging from animals, cutlery, humans and etc. Kawaii can be as many things as you can imagine. The way to tell if something is from the genre of “Kawaii” are the over exaggerated head shape, face expressions and their big eyes. Japanese people tend to keep the theme really simple and they also don’t add too much detail. Kawaii also tends to be really bright and vibrant to attract the viewers’ attention and also to give the character a innocent look ( childish look ) these characters are mainly made out of simple shapes like circles, squares and rectangles.

Charuca Vargas is a Kawaii artist that if from Spain. She has collaborated with the team that made Hello Kitty, she is famous for one of the characters called “Carmi” Some of the main features about this characters are: big eyes, bright colours and also she looks sweet and innocent which applies perfectly to the theme due to the Japanese teenagers obsessing over things that are cute. 

People fell for this type of art because it’s adorable, this style of art makes people thing “Awh” in their heads. Like if you saw a adult Squirrel carrying a baby squirrel you’d thing “owwww” in your head, this is that the Kawaii style of art is trying to get at. 

The Kawaii style began by the rise of cuteness going back to the 1960s, with an emergence of a new style of cute writing practiced by teenage girls who began to use mechanical pencils. These produced much finer lines than traditional Japanese writing and a popular new style emerged, where girls wrote big, round characters accompanied by cute little pictures think emojis. This style caught on, but was hard to read and as such was banned in schools.

Reason 1: Kawaii usually refers to small children, babies and small animals. They are helpless and need to be cared for. In a culture that values youth, both men and woman are attracted to anything youthful. Women want to appear youthful and Japanese men are attracted to young girls, just look at the popularity of bands like AKB48.

Reason 2: Japanese people work very long hours and they are under enormous social pressure. Cuteness is the total opposite of Japan’s harsh reality. My sister who works in IT says she enjoys going to stores full of cute products especially after working long overtime hours. Cuteness is cool and soothing for Japanese people and allows them an escape from the realities of their life.

Reason 3: Japan is collectively a society with a 12 year old’s mentality and for many there is a strong resistance to grow out of this prepubescent stage. As adults Japanese people are expected to conform to strict social norms and expectations. However as I mentioned above, children are always taken care of in Japanese society. Therefore to cope with the harsh realities of adulthood, many Japanese people seek the comfort of cuteness.

These reasons where stated by a Japanese resident that have lived in the US for 10 years, she stated that there is a huge difference in culture and these are the reasons why she thinks Japanese people like cute things. She has also stated that companies like Hello Kitty make a load of money from having cute things and even the police force use a cute mascot.  Source: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/kawaii-culture/

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By Charuca Vargas / Source : behance

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Chubby Bears <3

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