Summary:
A melancholy little boy breaks into a forest. The little boy walks carefully in the forest, and suddenly he finds a strange octopus lying in a pond, just then a small flying insect that looks like a snake flies towards him and leads him deeper into the forest. However, the moment he gets close to the tree house, all kinds of strange little animals approach him, and he has the happiest time in the forest, but will eventually go back to the real world.
Keywords:
Autism, Anxiety,Spiritual Worl, Fantasy Forest, Strange creatures
Genre:
The story takes place in a fantasy forest world with very fantasy mushrooms, tree houses, scenes and creatures animated
Goal:
As I get older, I miss more and more the various fantasy genre movies and anime I watched as a kid, but nowadays animation is given a lot of esoteric meaning by various industries and is also used in serious areas. I still want this film to be light-hearted, healing, and use lots of strange, cute creatures, play to animation’s unique strengths in creativity, and focus on exploring the emotional connection between animation and the audience.
This week I made a low poly model of scenes to help me understand the story further, as this is not a full animation. I can only do a little narrative, so I have to think about the balance of scenes, characters, and a short storyline. I refined the mini script for the story and started thinking about storyboarding.
shots
Shot 1 A lonely flower picked by a little boy
Shot 2 Octopus in a pond reaching out its tentacles to hook a lotus leaf
Shot 3 The octopus slowly climbing up the lotus leaf to sunbathe
Shot 4 The boy looks forward curiously
Shot 5 At this time a small flying insect came
Shot 6 The boy looks up and tries to touch the flying snake, but he gets away.
Shot 7 The little flying snake happily carries the boy forward
Shot 8 The boy stumbled and followed the snake
Shot 9 Seeing a tree house covered with mushrooms
Shot 10 Raising his foot, he sees a small carrot head
Shot 11 Turnip head quickly shrinks into a ball
Shot 12 The octopus and the little flying snake are looking at the little boy curiously
Shot 13 The boy subconsciously hears his mother’s voice
Shot 14 The boy subconsciously wants to leave
Shot 15 The head of the carrot stays and gives him a flower
Shot 16 The boy takes the flower and cuts to the lonely holding the flower
End
Start building the environmental scenario
Process-Screen recording
This modelling video is very long, so I’ve used variable speed, and it contains some of my ideas for the build, as well as structural errors I found in the design draft during the modelling, which I’ll be tweaking next week
Model display
When I was making this model I was thinking about how the background of this model should be designed, as it is a fantasy world and I would love to have him floating on water or hidden in a huge forest, George gave me some advice and next week I need to make the surrounding rocks and mountains and then decide on the location of the shot
idea 2
In this story I wanted to test the standing of the characters, as our requirement this term is to make previz shots, so I thought I should focus on designing the position of the characters and the background, but I have tried making scenes for two projects this week and the first one was perhaps more appealing. So I will be developing the first project in depth