Since culture is an important reason why visual objects appear in the form the way it is. Such as Chinese traditional dance lion, which was invented based on chinese traditional myth. The lion was made for the sake of safetiness and luckiness.
In my final project, I mainly focused on how dance lion were made and what are the important element people have when making a dance lion. Additionally, I added my own interpretation of this animal and brough out my own point of view of how a dance lion should be look like.
Sketches
The original southern China dance lion out look.
Design of the eyes, noses and beard.
The body part of the lion. The base of the lion.
Final look of the puppet
Details
This puppets is also playable. I designed a handle inside of the head of the lion where people can easily find.
The following video shows how we play with this puppet.