Did you have to do a lot of research on fish/marine biology for FSHBNS? I always love to draw from real world references whenever I do world building/character design.
You know, not much?? FISHBONES really uses fish as the recurring dominant thematic imagery, not the actual subject matter. Most of my actual research-research for this project has been in tech (I took Robotics 101 and Future of Technology as my science credits in college) and stuff like architecture, climate change, modern healthcare practices, transportation design, etc in my own time. On tumblr, I mostly curate fashion references and nice imagery.
Of course, there are actual fish in the story itself, but I never necessarily needed to do more research than just some visual referencing and (spoiler alert!!) documentation on the effects of pollution on fish populations. Done and done. Because I’m obviously not making up random nonexistent fish, or unrealistically unhealthy fish!! Bad form for any designer. But yeah, nothing more intensive than, say, your common simple image search.
