Project starts

Today i worked on starting the development process of my characters.

Since i want my characters to be both a blank slate that can easily be placed in a variety of situation.

Much like Peter Griffin from  Seth Macfarlane's  show Family Guy. as well as being relateable to a New Zealand audience. I decided to look at some very basic New Zealand  Stereotypes. 

I found stereotypes form a variety of sources.  

Some of the places i looked was New Zealand Comedy shows  like 

7 Days and Jono and Ben @ 10. 

Theses comedians shows both take events current and old in New Zealand and and make fun of them.

It was an easy way to find some stereotypes of people both regionally e.g. Aucklanders being called Jaffas   and Country wide e.g. communal need to be better than Australia in everything.

With these notes that i have documented in my journal and some other local t.v shows like bro town and some online skits and short videos i found youtube i made base mind map of traits found in New Zealanders.

with this i started the first developments of my characters. 

I Stuck with the idea of keeping the characters as Sasquatches for this first developmental sketches as the detachment form human forms in my opinion allows me more creative freedom and the ability to be a bit more stereotypical in my final designs and not make it seem to offensive.