Angela Lee – Project 12 – Final Project Proposal

(Using a grace day :))

For my final project, I plan on creating a short animation personifying the Earth (as Mother Earth) and, through her, showing an aspect of the climate crisis. For instance, I found the flood map for 2050 particularly sad, so I might show her losing land mass and being surrounded by rising levels of sea water. I want to personify the earth because I think that seeing the emotions on their face will inspire more empathy, and because I personally love playing with character illustrations. I am fascinated by different illustration styles, but for this project, I would love to explore a simple illustration style with an interesting color palette through the aesthetics of my project. I anticipate animating the water level to be a challenge to get it to look natural and convincing.