Inspiration for evil caterpillars - imagery

These are images off of the internet and out of books. THESE ARE NOT MY PHOTOGRAPHS.

I found these image on google, some photographers i have emailed for their permission and others i was not able to find any contact information. However, these photographs are on my blog for education use only and are not in any way my personal work.

I have created a little mood board of images of different caterpillars that i like the look of. I want to incorporate bits from each caterpillar, the spots, bright colours, spikes,  and even claw looking feet. I want to make the two caterpillars bright and bold, as the ugly sisters were in cinderella. I want to use the colours and spikes - the general design of the caterpillars to be intimidating and in your face, loud. I want them to be much chunkier then the protagonist which you will see in my next post. I have found that from looking at all of the brightly colour caterpillars they are all rather chunky in width but shorter in length. So this is something that i will have to bare in mind when designing the characters. The two ugly caterpillars wont actually be on screen for a long time. In fact they will only be on screen for the first 15 seconds of the animation and then they turn into butterflies. The acting that they have to do will also be very minimal which makes it more flexible to make the designs slightly more complicated. The ugly caterpillars actions in the 15 seconds are:

• first shot - eating leaves
• second shot - leaning over protagonist and being a bit aggressive
• third shot - turning around to get back to their leaves
• fourth shot - knocking protagonist off of branch with back end
• fifth shot - turning into cocoon - (although you don't see it happen, the period of time will be represented by the sun going down quickly.)
• sixth shot - they fly off and swoop past the protagonist.

So you do not see them a lot in the animation - it is more about how the protagonist overcomes and accepts their personal battles.