Final Panda Design

MODEL SHEET


Character turnaround

Practice Drawings

I have been practicing drawing from books and using helpful tips.

Here are my practice attempts:

'Famous Bears' Moodboard

Here are some famous bears, put into a moodboard to help me create my character.

The best thing for me to do now is to practice sketching the basic shapes for my character and then see where my inspiration takes me.

Hopefully I will have a character design very soon

Panda drawings

Sound Effects

http://sounddogs.com/


21/12/2011 - FIRST PANDA DRAWINGS

Human Style Panda

I found this here:

http://us.fotolia.com/id/23036209

It has given me a few ideas about how my character should look

Dating Ads

Researching dating ads will help me get an idea of what people usually include in these ads.

These will also help me write my script:

http://dating.telegraph.co.uk/s/find/search.php

http://www.dating.loot.com/s/find/search.php

http://www.encountersdating.co.uk/s/find/search.php

http://www.ozadz.com/adverts.php?c=m4w&ci=all&cp=1

http://lovedatinguk.com/Search/Results

http://www.dating.scotsman.com/s/find/search.php

http://www.datingbuzz.co.uk/s/find/search.php



Something else that will help me is online videos of dating ads, as this is the kind of ad i will be using.
Unfortinately there is no sound in the lab at the moment so i will research this later.

Main Panda Info

PANDA INFO FROM THE INTERNET

(To be used when writing the script)

Habitat

• ·         Live in a few mountain ranges in central China

• ·         Once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict giant pandas to the mountains

• ·         Live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo

• ·         At elevations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet

• ·         Often shrouded in heavy clouds

• ·         Habitat is increasingly fragmented by roads and railroads (now lives next to a railway?)

• ·         Cold and wet – just as pandas like it

Characteristics

• ·         Black and white bear

• ·         Each panda’s markings are slightly different from one another

• ·         There is also a rare brown and white variation of the giant panda (panda finally gets a reply, it’s another male)

• ·         Body typical of bears

• ·         Black fur on ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs and shoulders

• ·         The rest of the animal’s coat is white

• ·         Thick, woolly coat keeps it warm in the cool forests of its habitat

• ·         Large molar teeth

• ·         Stand between two and three feet tall at the shoulder (on all four legs)

• ·         Reach four to six feet long (1.2 to 1.5m)

• ·         With a 6 inch (0.2m) tail

• ·         Weigh around 300lbs (136kg) (weighing scales = he’s overweight)

• ·         Skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers

• ·         Highly developed sense of smell

• ·         Born white and develop their much loved colouring later

• ·         Front paws are specially designed to allow them to hold bamboo stalks (5 fingers and a thumb?)

• ·         They appear to have thumbs but they are really extensions of the wrist bone

• ·         To hold a piece of bamboo, a panda wraps its fingers around one side of the stalk, then it holds it in place by pushing the wrist bone (or pseudo-thumb) forward

• ·         They don’t roar but they do bleat and honk, they sometimes huff, bark or growl, and young cubs croak and squeal

Status

• ·         Listed as endangered

• ·         1,600 left in the wild

• ·         More than 300 live in zoos and breeding centres around the world, mostly in China

• ·         WOLONG NATURE RESERVE

Life Span

• ·         Average is 20

• ·         Chinese scientists have reported zoo pandas as old as 35

• ·         28 in 1999

Diet & Feeding Adaptations/Lifestyle

• ·         Feed babies milk and keep them warm in incubators

• ·         Hairless and helpless

• ·         99% bamboo

• ·         Other grasses, birds, insects and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns

• ·         Bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high fibre biscuit, carrots, apples, bulbs, fruits and sweet potatoes

• ·         Usually eats while sitting upright, in a pose that resembles how humans sit on the floor

• ·         In a relaxed sitting posture, with their hind legs stretched out before them

• ·         To make up for the inefficient digestion, a panda needs to consume a comparatively large amount of food – from 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day

• ·         Spends 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating

• ·         Mostly sleeping and resting

• ·         Almost every day wild pandas also drink fresh water from rivers and streams

• ·         Giant pandas do not hibernate (maybe have a link to hiding away even though he shouldn’t)

• ·         Pandas like to be by themselves most of the year (maybe wanting a mate for a while, sick of being on his own)

• ·         Groups of pandas share a large territory and sometimes meet outside the breeding season

• ·         A typical panda eats half the day – 12 out of 24 hours & relieves itself dozens of times a day (maybe keeps going to the toilet)

• ·         They eat different parts of the plant depending on the time of year. Summer and autumn they mostly eat leaves, winter means a diet of tough stems and spring provides tender, young bamboo shoots (what time of year? Maybe flick between)

• ·         One species of bamboo growing in an area will bloom and die at the same time

• ·         May face starvation due to not being able to move on to a different area

• ·         They can be active at any time of the day or night (maybe yawn halfway through video)

• ·         Sleep at the bottom of trees under stumps and rock ledges

Social Structure

• ·         Red panda?

• ·         Generally solitary (DESPICABLE ME – his rubbish relationship with his mum, the cut backs to his child hood)

• ·         Communicate periodically through scent marks, calls and occasional meetings

• ·         They communicate through scent marks, calls and occasional meetings

Reproduction

• ·         Giant pandas reach breeding maturity between 4 and 8

• ·         Reproductive until about age 20

• ·         May give birth to two young, usually only one survives

• ·         Mother panda can only care for one at a time

• ·         A male will seek out different females who are on heat

• ·         Mating season is in spring between March and May

• ·         Males & females usually associate for no more than 2 to 4 days

• ·         For several days after birth, the mother does not leave the den, not even to eat or drink! (abandonment)