A lot of my pieces, especially those in my animated “series,” are influenced by pop culture and film. When I wanted to animate the steps of a figure walking across the screen, my initial instinct was to be inspired by the film, Mean Girls, with a puppet of the “Plastics” from the 2004 film walking across the screen through a mall.
However, as I was creating the puppet, I liked how much I could play with the proportions, with large breasts and long legs, almost playing up on the unrealistic body proportions of a Barbie doll. I changed the directions of my project, instead transforming it into my feminist project, Girl Lemme See You Walk (alternatively: Not Your Barbie Girl). I created the puppet figure in Adobe Animate, and imported a background in from Procreate.
