Collaborative Brief - Loopdeloop - Lino Printing the Chicken

• I took ideas from the chickens in the Fantastic Mr Fox lino print. I like the body shape with the long neck it would work well springing out of the box.
• The idea of animating a lino cut came from my animation in 504, I took one of my Aldous Huxley prints and glitched out the face by moving individual sections - I will take a similar approach when animating this chicken print.

• I sketched this photo of a chicken face because I liked the the look of its weird head piece, but I didn't like how it translated to my drawing. I prefer it with the feathery head dress coming of the back of the head.

• I did larger scale sketches to figure out how I could fit more detail within the shapes.
• I wanted the face to be able to glitch and twist so I needed to make separate sections within the face that I could detach from the rest, and then apply motion to them. 

• When I had an idea of the chicken I wanted I drew it straight onto the lino and carved it out.
• I made changes to the body shape at the last minute, I preferred the look of more squared body shape, with the wings sticking out more - this would work much better when jumping/springing out of the box.
• The rounded body shape looked more like a chicken sat down (not moving), this is more appropriate for a chicken that is going to be moving around.

Here is the final lino print, they printed well and I managed to get solid bold prints - I didn't really want any texture on it to stick to the graphic cartoon style we had discussed. When I saw the first print I thought there could me too much white space within the face, but I think this well give the facial features some space to move within the face when animated. I wasnt sure on the exact section of the face that I would separate - I will figure that out on photoshop when preparing imagery for the animation.