Evaluation

When we were first given our brief for our Human Hybrid I was very confused with what we actually had to create and how we had to do it. However when our lecturer explained it more in detail and gave us example of Human Hybrids in film, this helped a lot as to be honest I wasn't sure what a Human hybrid was. It helped doing research as it helped me to be inspired by existing human hybrids. I am not sure why I decided to use a frog to create my hybrid, I think it was possibly the colourful patterns of different types of frogs. My first problem I had to overcome was what type of frog I was going to use to combine with a human, I decided that the library would be a good place to find some books on amphibians which it did. I came across the Ornate Horned frog and I knew straight away I wanted to use this type of frog I really liked the pattern as it was very imperfect. The next obstacle was what was going to be my prosthetic piece. When I discussed this with my lecturer we decided on using the eyelid/hood of a frog. I told my lecturer I wanted my hybrid to show small aspects of the frog part for example the eyelid/hood and colour and texture the rest I wanted to show the form of the human. Once I was happy with what I wanted my prosthetic piece to be I started sculpting it out of clay and spent a couple of days getting it perfect and smoothing it out so it looked like a frogs eye hood. I created one silicone mould for my prosthetic piece which I think in hindsight slowed the process of making the pieces. One problem I faced first when I was using the one silicone mould was that I decided to make the piece green already, I was happy with the colour of the first piece the problem occurred was when I came to making the second piece from the mould as I didn’t really record how much deadener (this makes the piece soft and flexible with a higher percentage) and also I didn’t really pay attention to how much green pigment I added to my first piece so when I pulled my second piece out of the mould it was a dark green instead of mint green like my first piece. Also the second piece I made was extremely hard I knew before I applied the piece to my model that the second piece wasn’t going to stick as it wasn’t flexible enough like the first piece. So after my first fail of an attempt of creating my hybrid. I started again by making new pieces however this time I made sure to record how much deadener I used and also I roughly noted how much green pigment I used for the first new piece. I was much happier with how my new pieces came out as they very flexible and soft and they were also the perfect green. If I could do it again I would create two moulds so that my pieces would be exactly the same each time. I really enjoyed researching different types of frogs as they are actually quite a lot of different species. I made sure to do a lot of research of the particular frog I’m mixing with a human, I used a lot of books on amphibian and also I found lots of useful websites with great knowledge on different frogs and they’re habitats and diet. I decided for my concept for my brave new world I want to make it somewhat realistic in terms of the location and people, as there is actually a tribe called Tikuna and also the girl’s name I used is actually someone who lives in this tribe in the Amazon forest. I wasn’t sure how I was going to get my human hybrid however with the help of my mum we came up with a wise old Medicine man who lives within this tribe. I’ve heard through the grape wine that you not meant to lick frogs for some reason so I came up with that the frog has to lick the girl for her to recover however the family aren’t told that she might potentially turn into a frog. I thought this was a good idea for the hybrid to be born as it combined fiction and nonfiction. Overall I happy with how my human hybrid came out, if I could re do it I would made add a little more texture to the skin maybe some bumpiness and also I think I would have angled the prosthetic pieces downwards a little to make it look a little more frog like. Also I would have tried add a slightly more wet look to the skin.