For my third artefact I wanted to create a realistic object that could exist in the real world in a similar form so I created a candlestick covered with melted wax. This is an object different to the other five I am making because I am not anthropomorphizing it like I do with the others. Instead I made a realistic looking object to see whether people can find animal or human like features in it on their own.
I will ask the people looking at this object to tell me where on this object they see eyes, noses or any other human or animal parts and whether they see any evidence of expression and in what form. They will be given a variety of simple shapes that will be corresponding to different parts, for example ‘O’ to describe eyes ‘X’ for the nose and many more with the option of adding their own. They will be asked to draw these shapes on the image to show me what they see. It is very important not to lead people with my questions and to see their response without guiding them. The point of the exercise is to see how much work the viewer does in the process of anthropomorphization.
While I was creating the candlestick I realized that the shadow of the object has potential to be expressive as well. Through my research I learned how important the silhouette is on an object and that while creating the character we should always be aware that the character should be recognizable from its silhouette . Therefore I made some changes and continue working with the premise that the shadow should be a part of the image and not a side effect of the more realistic nature of the render I was after. It should compliment my research enquiries.
