Everyone can remember back to a time in their life when visiting the doctor was something scary. My senior thesis, TIDE, was an examination of how role play can be used to make doctors less scary to children by desensitizing them to scary medicine before they even arrive.
This would be achieved via the creation of a short-form video series that children could watch before a treatment at home. The subject matter would revolve around our hero, Tide the Turtle MD, who is a doctor who treats fellow sea life at Causaedeas Reef. Each episode would cover a medical treatment humorously.
Upon arrival at a doctor's office, a doctor could then use the Tide MD puppet to perform the treatments that were shown to the child.
This project had 4 fabric iterations and many more prototypes before those. I started by using a basic massing technique to make a paper model, and then used that to make a pattern. Once the basic shape was determined, I used industry leading software to make a sewing pattern. This was then used to Laser cut and mark my fabric, which mimics industry production practice. Aproximately 120 hours of experimentation were put into my final prototype.
This was the Previz animation for "Tide Tales". I taught myself Blender for this project.