Category: Project 1.1-Previs

Conclusion PDF

Inspiration & Introduction:

The world is a huge playground for the positive, the more exciting the more fun. For the cowards, it’s hell, and you can get hurt anytime, anywhere. So, the kind of world you feel you are in depends on what kind of person you are. By portraying the grey real life and colourful spiritual world of the main character, this story conveys a message that living by the rules did not bring me the expected happiness. Anxiety and stress were always around me, so why not break the definition. People have so many things that bother them. How talented do you have to be to be considered talented? So 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.

Keywords:

Anxiety, Spiritual World, Fantasy Forest, Strange creatures

Summary:

A 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 dragon that looks like a fat panda or cat 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.

Creature character design

Personality: very lazy but very lively, loves colourful flowers and insects,
likes to interact with the main character

Reference for Creature design

Appearance: Has fluffy fur, looks like a dragon and a cat,
a big beautiful tail and small furry wings
Habits: very panda-like, likes to float in the air and sleep
often collects pretty flowers to give to people he likes

Problems that have arisen now

1. According to my original script, the plot of the story was really too long due to the hand. I couldn’t finish the whole story this semester, so I chose the most critical episode for the previs, but I was hoping to use the previs process to help me organize my design ideas. I found some bugs in this cycle between the plot and characterisation, so I will try to balance the conflict between characterisation and body language in term three.

George’s Feedback

In week 9 I put all my energy into the production of the footage, in this class George also pointed out some problems I had with the rhythm of the footage, some of the footage rhythms were not edited well enough, so I will make changes next week.

sync sketch link: https://syncsketch.com/sketch/NTkxYjE1ZjE3/

Previs:

Mask modelling-Recording progress

Shape of Choice

circle

Character proportions

1:3 (4 heads tall)

Anatomical Features

bean face

regular eyes

small nose

circle ears

scale

swear huge mask

small cloak

Character design-process

Make face and hair

I was thinking about using XGEN to create the hair. Still, after looking up a lot of references, I decided to go for the faceted hair, which will be very easy to modify if I develop the project further in the next term.

3D storyboard

Environmental design

Character Design-Reference Tutorial Video

I have not yet learnt Blender as software, so I have more references to his production ideas, and I find that Blender is superior in creating the pupils of the characters. My main character is a poker face. Most of his expressions will be focused on the eyes and two hands, so this tutorial was very helpful to me

(29) Blender Timelapse of a Flower Girl – YouTube

Develop the first ideal

This week I have been working mainly on the 2d split-screen, as I really like to draw things as I go along, my initial idea was to create a butterfly（maybe another creature animal） flying around the character and leading the surface into the forest, this shot is very important to my story so I designed two versions of the draft split-screen

For this shot I wanted to do a leaf falling and the man holding his mask for a moment before starting to chase the little kobold, it might have been very cool to have a leaf as a segue

The second ideal

Process-Treehouse-Low Poly

Reference character video

Tales of Runeterra: Ionia | “The Lesson” – League of Legends – YouTube

Tales of Runeterra: Don’t Mess With Yordles | League of Legends: Wild Rift – YouTube

Project 1: Part of the storyboard

Creature design-2D Draft

Frog and Honey Badger

Birds and Snakes

Octopus and Sloth

Looking for 3D creature models Reference（！O.O！）

Details of the draft

Missing the design of the little boy Previous designs were rejected by me as the plot and scenes progressed

2D-Storyboard ideal 1

2D-Storyboard ideal 2

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