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Slavic Folklore in Concept Design
Honours Project
Critical FrameworkWorking on the Feedback
Does the item of clothing/artwork/building/prop you are looking at have a superb sense of authenticity as outlined by the following aesthetic principles?
• Form and Shape• Pattern• Cultural Context• Historical Accuracy• Detail• Imagery
Yes No
It’s relevant It’s not relevant
Character Design
Unsuccessful Design
• Too much detail• Pompous• Does not convey character• Does not build on previous
development sheets• Difficult to identify with or
project onto
Prince Ivan
• Russian prison imagery• Simple design• Traditional Russian shirt pattern
with a sideways opening• Muted colours
Unsuccessful Design
• Too military looking
• Not enough characterisation
Dawn
The Sun’s Sister
• Gentle yet strong• Grey and contrasting Yellow• More saturated colours than
Ivan• Goddess of the Dawn
Inspiration
• Machal, Jan. "Slavic Mythology." Vol. III of Mythology of All Races (Boston: 1918) (1918): 279.
• Znayenko, M. T. (1980). The gods of the ancient Slavs: Tatishchev and the beginnings of Slavic mythology. Slavica.
• Kononenko, Natalie O. Slavic folklore: a handbook. Greenwood Pub Group, 2007.
• Szövérffy, Joseph. "History and Folk Tradition in Eastern Europe: Matthias Corvinus in the Mirror of Hungarian and Slavic Folklore." Journal of the Folklore Institute (1968): 68-77.
• Kulikowski, Mark. A bibliography of Slavic mythology. Slavica Publishers, 1989.
• FRANK SYSYN
• Social ResearchVol. 58, No. 4, Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe (WINTER 1991), pp. 845-864
• Johns, Andreas. Baba Yaga: the ambiguous mother and witch of the Russian folktale. Vol. 3. Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
• Afanasʹev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, and Roman Jakobson. Russian fairy tales. Vol. 2. Pantheon, 1976.
• Kravchenko, Maria. The world of the Russian fairy tale. Vol. 34. P. Lang, 1987.
• Voronov, Vladimir. Krestyanskoe Iskusstvo. Moscow State Publishing. 1924.
Russian Prison Tattoos
• Religious Symbolism
• Political Imagery
• Slang Imagery
• Folklore
The Look of War
Russian Royal Dresses• Extremely ornate
• Long and Flowing
• Gold is popular accent
• Hard to find and expensive materials
Russian Knight Armour• Round “Zertsalo” was put above
chainmail for extra protection
• Visually looks like the Sun
• Bright and was often polished to blind enemies
Other Characters
• Baba Yaga
• The Witch
Props and Weapons
• Early Napoleonic/Late Medieval
• Varied levels of technology• Interesting colour schemes
Inspiration
• Tsar Cannon
• Ornate
• More of an image than a functional weapon
• Simple shapes
• Bulky
Napoleonic Muskets• Ornate
• Interesting detail
• Design over functionality
• Imperial Imagery (Slavic in our case) like eagles, lions etc.
Environments
Fibonacci Spiral (Golden Ratio or Phi) is used widely in photography and art as a substitute to the usual rule of thirds.
A Change in Scope
Placing into the “Would Be Nice to Have but Doesn’t Look Like It’s Going to Happen” box
• The weavers and the giants
• Their respective environments
• Items associated with these characters
Concentrating On
• Environment Design
• Characterisation
• Personal Development
• Dissertation
Personal Development