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 Intention Definition & Exploration of Ideas: History and Folktales have been a part of our lives forever, people use history and stories as a way to teach valuable lessons. History has been one of my favorite subjects for as long as I can remember and I remember in elementary school I would go out of my way to read fairytales. History and stories will always be in art and the media, video games, books, movies, paintings, sculptures have been made based on stories we've read in our history classrooms. We all know stories such as The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Cinderella, Hansen, and

 Gretel, etc. They are timeless and have been rewritten and told for years and will continue well past our time on this earth. This is not just limited to U.S. stories, across the globe there are multiple versions of stories we've heard million times before and even their own cultures' unique ones. Chinese folktales and history have piqued my interest for years now, I grew up knowing stories of the Lunar Zodiacs and the Monkey King way before I knew what Goldie Locks and the 3 Bears were. I felt as if a big part of my childhood and identity was not as well known as I thought, because upon asking my friends who also were Chinese they have not heard some stories I had thought were ironic in Chinese culture. I have wanted to make a 3D modeled character since my first day of 3D Modeling and Design, so when I reached profilio I knew this is what I wanted to do. I thought to myself, why just make a character when I can rig it and use it on myself. So I turned to the internet of course. I spend an unhealthy amount of my time on the internet, specifically youtube, and being an avid anime fan it was not long before I knew who Vtubers are. At first, I was a little bit weirded out, but then I began liking how their characters look and how much fun they looked they were having on the screen so I wanted to make one for myself. 

Planning: So after my last blog post I started deciding what I wanted to do for the majority of my work. I decided to work on the body this time rather than the head. I finished the body and went back onto the head as of late and have made decent progress with both aspects. I decided I was not going to make feet for my character due to time and mostly my character's feet would not be seen usually because her dress is supposed to be floor-length. 

Producing:  

Evaluating: I am really happy I finally have a concept sheet. I commissioned an artist to create one for me and I found her through TikTok. I was quite nervous for my first commissioning someone I had no prior knowledge of knowing. The concept art really helped with my mind and I could clearly see what my character suppose final to be. I believe I could have taken less time to do the body, but I am overall glad I choose to do what  I did for them.

Integrating:  So, moving forward I would like to work out of this outside of class more. I have worked on it a bit outside of class here and there but I want to dedicate more days of my life to making my character model. I am really happy I almost have the hair done and then I just need to make clothes and texture then rig and I would be done. Although it might sound a lot I believe this will be significantly less difficult than modeling. Maybe I am underplaying it in my mind but as of right now nothing seems too bad. I am prepared to work on