At the start of another term we have been given a brief for our final year project which could be an animation based on an original script, an adaptation, a music video, a documentary, comedy, drama and may be produced in any form of digital animation. As well as portfolio builders such as character animations in 2D and/or 3D, or possibly building a creative portfolio showing concepts and designs. But first we had to propose an idea which would then become the base of the major project.
Having the basis of our team from last term Tom Dowler, Matt Luxton, Simon Acty, Matt Butler and Roy Nottage and myself, we were ready to start. Before heading back to start the new term Matt Luxton, Simon, Tom and myself sat down and talked about what we would be doing this year. We thought that we should step aside from the game idea and characters created from the last pitch project, because it was rather hard to come up with an original storyline, other than the generic capture and interrogation, as we’d already come up with back stories for the characters. In order to show the characters emotions and tell the story to the audience in the right way would require many more people and more time to produce this 7-8 minute short.
Having stepped away from this idea, we had a brainstorming session coming up with lots of ideas. Based in a steam-punk like environment we thought of three possible storylines: the first an escape, the second, the need to acquire something and the third, a hunt. I took these and developed them further over the next few days along with a few others. The first titled, an Escape to Freedom, is the story about a youth who so desperately needs to escape a world where curfews and strong laws choke those who live within the city walls. S/he finally stows away on an airship and once over a forest, jumps out into a world where s/he can smell, feel and touch the freedom.
The second idea titled, Acquiring the Key, is the story about a young person who is on the trail to find the key that will create an adventure, finally leading to the freedom of the people in an environment similar to the first story. So it will be a trailer showing the first few minutes as she is following a trail that will lead her to this key.
The third was the hunt idea, where a pompous, egotistical hunter is on the trail of finding a very rare creature. He brings along his apprentice, who is sabotaging his every attempt on this creatures capture because it is very, very cute.
We all decided to go for the last idea, as it is a very simple story to get across to audiences, especially for a short 3-4 minute piece. We will be creating a short 4 minute, 3-D animated film to hopefully show at many shows as well as on websites such as 3-D total. My role within this project will be to work on the concept art, and environment designs, also working on the animation later on in the project.
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