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Final poster designs

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villains are show from low angles to make them scary and sinister looking, while close-up angles are used for victims to make them look vulnerable when they’re about to be attacked.

for research paper How have artists portrayed nightmares in film

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unfinshed concept that i was working on

i lost motivation to complete this

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Nyxs Silence form concept designs

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sketches work in progress

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plans for poster designs and test animation

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one concept art of Nyx in silence form from this sketches

i like the idea of making her look like a puppet sewed on her mouth closed and have button eyes. i also like to make her slightly like a spider with the webs as strings.

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concept sketches of Nyx Silence form

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Nyx concept work designs

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more fire form of Nyx

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more concept design i forgot to post this before the previous post because i used orange and red for fire colour for Nyx fire form.

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fire form

I decided to do 3 series of her fire form only deferences that i've changed is the shine of the fire light, orange, red and blue. I decided to go for the blue because blue is a calm colour and  and makes her look calm in the first pic. What i was thinking to do it to make the blue colour change to orange when she goes angry if i have the chance to draw it.

this is done in firealpaca

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concept ideas sketches done in biro in my sketchbook of Nyxs fire form, demon horns, silences form and normal form.

normal form i wanted to make her have wide eyes also have bags underneath to show that she looks like she hasn't sleep for long.

Fire form i experimenting her legs and going close to demon looking form for Nyx. i decided to go with demon looking legs for the final because the normal looks boring to me, also the horns i sketched the shapes that could possibly fit

Silence form i was going into that puppet looking theme close to Coraline movie with button eyes, but i wasnt too sure if i want to keep that cocnept, so i could continue sketching more further in future

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Night Fears In Children

doing some basic research and i changed the title slightly to be sure to what i can look into.

Research: Night Fears in Young Children

Sleep in infants and young children:

  Abstract 

Approximately 25% of children younger than 5 years experience some type of sleep problem. Whether the problem is acute or chronic, significant disruption to the child's sleep can occur and have a negative impact on the child and family. This article is the second in a two-part series on sleep in infants and young children. The purpose of this article is to provide fundamental information regarding common pediatric sleep problems for the clinician to use when assessing a child's sleep behaviors or addressing parental concerns. The definition, impact, and clinical evaluation of sleep problems are discussed.

  http://www.jpedhc.org/article/S0891-5245(03)00150-0/abstract

  Emotive imagery and children's night-time fears: A multiple baseline design evaluation

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0005791689900451

  Emotive imagery is a variant of systematic desensitization that has been used in the treatment of children's excessive fears. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of emotive imagery as a fear reduction procedure using a multiple baseline design across subjects. Three children (6, 8 and 11 years old) with night-time fears participated in the study. The children showed marked behavioral improvements on a test for darkness toleration that was administered on alternate days in their homes. However, they reported experiencing very little fear in these tests. Over the intervention period fewer night-time behavioral disturbances were observed for two subjects. Parents expressed some concern about the darkness test but were satisfied with emotive imagery as a fear reduction procedure. As children's phobias are characterized by multiple processes, we recommend a combination of treatment procedures in clinical practice.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUpIzI57Pxo

Kids Fear of The Dark: Help Your Child Overcome Their Fear of Darkness

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7fIJPfeiw

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Pitch presentation

I had to develop more on my character, i been giving critique by my lectures saying she looks generic. My net aim is to develop concept character more further before doing the test animation.

since i need to develop on my character more, i also think she needs more characteristic on her. 

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Update:

Thinking to change the idea just having 3 symbols in one character:

Fire

Shadow

Silent

because I think it will be a bit too much to animate 4 forms of the character

My character Nyx has a name meaning which is of the Night. When i looked up Night symbolism I found out they have 4 meanings:

Night is the main title that symbolized death

Fire means fire from hell.

Silence symbolizes fear

Corpses symbolize the living dead

I think i wanted to create more characters for each one of them and have Nyx as the night only and Fire, Silence as new characters.

reference used Symbolism in Night by Elie Wiesel