Theory Research

to help in my research for my character designs i looked for articles to help in my design process.

i managed to find an article about guillermo del toro and the way he tackles embodiment and masculinity and how symbolizes horror in the fear of the decay of the male masculine form and the threat it imposes on the hard bodied man. [thats what i got from a brief skim anyway].

Another article i found discussed masculinity using silent hill 2 as a case study in which the embodying the male form is glorified whereas the feminine bodies are shown do be expendable whether it be the soft bodied antagonists or other characters that have to be discarded in some form to progress the narrative [again will get into more depth after i read it properly]

another article i find interesting is [again just from a skim] is about modernity and culture in terms of the realization and fantasy of ideal feminsation. the article does a case study on "A Fool’s Love" by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

The last article i look to tackle is a reading i did for my lit review in bridging which analyzed lara croft and her sexuality and linked it to discussion for how we find appeal in technology to the point of fetishization.

i think the discussion of these articles will aid in the development of my characters, by considering their construction in terms of masculinity/femininity not just using gender. also using this construction to suggest darker themes of horror. in designing the female characters [in particular the protagonist] i look to apply the ideas of what the appeal men find in female characters in particularly digitized ones as well as the modernity of their context in relation to contemporary society to craft appealing characters not subject to too much cliche.