Designs - Dodo.

                            The DODO.




The Dodo is an interesting design because it is an extinct bird therefore I have some artistic license with the way it looks. There are images within the alice in wonderland books and other sources of the dodo, howeverI am going to experiment and use some other materials other than just feathers, to create a textured effect. 

Like the owl costume the dodos unitard will be sourced for me by the Ballet school. As the dodo is a round character i have decided to add a pad to the chest to create a rounded silhouette. 


Around the neck i thought looked like an Elizabethan ruff, which is ironic as the character of the dodo in alice in wonderland is spposed to be wise and regal which the ruff would represent, where as the original perceptions of the dodo is that they were stupid and clumsy creatures. It would be a great play of roles if the dodo character would be tall & regal, nevertheless due to his forgetfull nature would forget his regal persona and be clumsy and stupid. 

From underneath the ruff collar the pad which would be attacthed to the unitard would be covered with feathers and homemade feathers down the torso. It will have at the back a small plumage, to represent the tail.


Rather than the owl whose arms will be covered with feathers the Dodo traditionally could not fly, and has very small unesscessary wings, Therefore to represent this i have decided not to cover the arms with feathers but to create feathered gloves. This will give the illusion of little wings.   

feathered gloves.