Serial Cartooning & Modeling
For my final project proposal, I would like to make a years-long project come to life.
The year? 2016.
The creator? Jacquelyn Walo.
The idea? A cartoon about serial killers.
My childhood dream was to become a professional Cartoonist. My second semester of my senior year in undergrad, I started to hatch an idea about a cartoon comprised of the lives of serial killers in “Anytown USA” suburbia. There would be one street in the town that is all serial killers (Kan St. & Ball Way, “Kan-ball”= Cannibal), and it would be a series of misadventures of all of their lives in suburbia trying to fit in whilst killing people. I had become fascinated by the idea of serial killers when I was in high school (if that doesn’t speak to how NOT popular I was haha), and I thought it would make great adult cartoon material.
The purpose of it is entertainment and dark-humor laughs, which I believe are a necessary thing especially in a time like this.
The Brown Recluse is the main character of the cartoon, and she is a black widow, but named “the Brown Recluse” for copyright reasons.
I would like to have her animated and 3D modeled in Cinema 4D, which is a CAD tool I have yet to explore. There might be a learning curve having only used Fusion 360 recently. I have wanted to tap into this space to add a non-white non-male voice and creator of dark-humored cartoons, as there are so few. It is also a project that I have been excited about since its conception. It is one of the creative “back burner” projects I meant to return to finish and upgrade. I believe it is the perfect addition to my work in the STCM program because I have had it rolling around in my mind, but wasn’t sure in which way to execute it. It combines sketches, documentation, user feedback, and 3D modeling (as well as passion!).
Since I have sketches of her built out, I am hoping to have the fidelity be a little higher. I would like her to be 3D modeled in Cinema 4D, and possibly have some simple animations. I have also mulled over 3D printing a model of her head, like some make from popular cartoon characters. I will need to do research on Cinema 4D to learn the possibilities and limitations of the software.
I am very excited, and a little nervous, to see my idea come to life!
