Rationale

In Droid Saga, I wanted to capture and harness some of the fun and magic of the main franchise but make it a sort of whimsical and fun offshoot. I really love sci fi and robots and such so I played with the idea of a force using droid – who learned the ways of the force from their master and carries on the legacy of their master once they pass on. The side of the force their master was on would determine their force affiliation – and this aspect would be part of the collectible nature of the product – a set of detailed models. Consequently, the way I made this would mean you could mix and match droid parts – feet, arms, hands, weapons and clothing which would be a very cool aspect and allow people to basically customize their own droid if they wanted. I intended for a teenage and upwards audience. If it were a real product I envision it would have an accompanying game/app or animated series to go along with it and flesh out the characters. Because of the nature of collectibles, I wanted to make the box and art look appealing enough that you could use it to display/keep the item – thus a nice full color image is prominent on this packaging.

I’ve never particularly been craft focused on my design solutions and don’t really have a high level of technical know-how, so that was a big challenge for me for this assignment. There were a lot of cases of expectation vs. reality – things that I thought were straightforward and seemed like they would work in theory, often didn’t in practice. And thus, I had to problem solve every time something happened. And this was both in the construction of the model, as well as the packaging. And while things didn’t come out exactly as I had planned, or perfectly, I am proud of what I’ve learned, accomplished and produced for this project. While there are a few things I would have done differently (creating the body from scratch and using different joints rather than trying to make an existing thing work probably would have saved me time in the longrun in this instance) I can now say that I know how to make this sort of thing and don’t doubt that I will have to call upon these skills in future.