Over Christmas I have been reading several bocks related to animation, fashion and character design. Of these , the most insightful has proven to be Coraline, A visual companion by Stephen Jones, based on Henry Selick's film adaptation of the children's book by Neil Gaimen. The initial concept art for the animated puppets were drawn by Tadahiro Uesugi, a Japanese illustrator who is mainly influenced bu American illustrators of the 1950's and 60's. His images show a continual development through changing the characters body shapes and trying them out in different clothing inspired by the 1920s up to the 1970's. For Esme, I have found a strong look for her fur coat from the 1930's, referncing the shape and cut considered fashionable back then.
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