Loop de Loop Myth

I first explored how the term  was first used and came to be. The myth was a term used by travellers in Greece in regards to the stories that would be told by them. Since i wanted to focus on character and performance animation i looked at how i could tell a looping story and my idea led me to the idea of a dancer but i felt that the idea became too disconnected to the word of myth.

So i tried going back to general ideas with the word myth and what we generally associate with the word so after brain storming some words i settled on a prompt with the word medusa.

The initial idea for the loop was to have a solider walking into medusas cave and then being turned to stone as he screams we hear it from outside and go back to the outside of the cave again with another solider.

From there i started to design my medusa. I used reference of snakes to try and develop a serpentine design for her.

After some development i went with a slightly graphic style with her hair being reminiscent of a cobras hood rather than an array of snakes to make it easier to animate. The design was influenced by the kim possible designs.

The style and colour of the world developed as such:

The goal was to try and see how the snakes 

Below are the key poses for the main movement, as time went on i realised i wasn't going to have the time to animate the entire thing so i focused on medusa's shift from pleasant to terrifying.