Blog Post Project 4

Name: BCBD

Meaning: Be Confident Before Death🫶🏻

Target audience: Those who are not confident in themselves, especially in their appearance.

When I knew that we were going to make a toy that represents the idea of diversity and inclusivity, I immediately thought of the idea of changing clothes, because I always wanted to make such a toy (also I intended to add this element into my project 2 but I did not have sufficient time back then). When I actually started to make the toy, I found I always had new inspirations, so the final project was a bit different from the original plan in my proposal. When thinking of the body of the toy, I came up with the idea of using a 3D-printed skeleton since this could best represent the idea of inclusivity---every human being has the same skeleton inside. I believe with the decorations of flowers on the skeleton, it can show the idea that what matters most is your beautiful inside, thus encouraging people to be confident in their outside appearance, because whatever their outside appearance is like, it won't conceal their beautiful inside. All people should have the right and confidence to be whatever they like💖

The final version of the toy enables players to change its facial expression and hair, and also allows them to create their own versions of clothes for the toy with watercolor pigments!! I decided to add the process of recreating to the play experience of my toy (also thanks Marcela for providing me with the suggestion of using pigments for the players to create their drawings~), because after taking this course, I found that the function of inspiring creativity of a toy really matters to me, and this is what makes a toy have unique meanings to different players.