Doll Face

While getting new ideas researching, I usually talk to my sister about them and ask for her opinions or just get her to listen to me. This helps me be able to let them ideas sink in by having to explain them to someone else, to also helps that she gives a lot of amazing ideas and spitballs with me as I think out loud in front of her. This means that she's very up to dates with what I'm doing in my project and often goes out of her way to find videos, articles, documentaries and books I could look at which would help me with my research.

Conveniently enough, she found this animated short called Doll Face by Andrew Thomas Huang. In this animation, the machine thrives to be just as beautiful as the face on TV.
She literally reaches and thrives for the perfection shown on TV while damaging herself in the process. It's a very literal representation of women in society but shown in a very intelligent and stylistic way.

This is an amazing piece of animation/film aided by visual effects which seems to reflect my spur of ideas very vividly. Although it hasn't caused me to stray too far from my initial idea, it's just gone a couple of steps further and deeper in my research to get to this stage of ideas.