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Design Course

Digital Representation Technique

Transforming Tangible Art into a Digital Platform

by

Neha Alice Kerketta, Vajra, Pranisha and Chamandeep

IDC, IIT Bombay

Animal Study

The first step is to collect relevant reference images to study the animal and then make a rough sketches keeping in mind these points.

a. Form - Overall shape of the creature.

b. Structure - Identify how different parts of the animal function.

c. Anatomy - Learn how the muscles and bones work together to form the frame of the creature

d. Locomotion - Observe how the animal moves around and the nature of the movement. Eg: Sluggish and slow or Fast and light.

e. Design details - Observe the various aesthetic points of the creature. Eg: Yellow of the beak.

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