Idea

For my final project for Soft Fabrication, I wanted to combine one of the skills we learned in class, felting, with an area of design that I have always been interested in but struggled to make headway in, that area being character design. As someone who isn't the most skilled with a pencil in their hands, the field of character design has always seemed somewhat inaccessible to me because I lacked the ability to visualize the ideas for characters that I had in my head.  This caused me to begin looking for alternative ways to design characters. Because of the flexibility of felting as well as the fact that it can look good at low fidelity, it seemed like it might be the perfect medium to try to realize a original character in.