Part 1: Portfolio ✓
Part 2: Pitch, Storyboard, Concept Art ✓
Pitch
A girl named Luna seeks freedom, but is forbidden to go outside of her room. Frustrated, she bangs on the wall, and a crack forms. A secret passage that leads to her dream is shown, and her new adventure begins.
For my Animation Summative, we were asked to make a short animation (20 - 60 sec), and to include the 12 Principles of Animation in our work. My goal for this project is to make my animation at least 1 min. I will also be using Adobe Flash, and Clip Studio Paint for majority of my work.
• Luna (Main character) wakes up.
• Candle on the bedside table is shown.
• Luna lights up the candle.
• Scene shows the whole room and Luna stares at her curtains.
• She opens the blinds .
• Beauty outside is shown.
• She walks to the door and attempts to open it, but it was locked.
• Character walks to her bed .
• Lies down on bed.
• She kneels down on her bed after a couple of seconds and bangs her wall out of frustration for not being able to be free.
• The area of the wall where she banged on cracks, and a secret passageway was shown.
• She goes down the dark, spiral stairs, and by the end of it, a door with a light shining through its cracks is shown.
• Luna opens the door
• Searched her surroundings for unwanted people while walking carefully.
• As soon as she sees that the coast is clear, Luna runs out of the area as fast as she could.
• While running, she breathes in the fresh air.
• In the end of the path, she sees the ocean glittering in front.
• She walked slowly to it, knelt down on the sand, and felt the water.
• Tears fell down her cheeks because for the first time, she was able to be free.
• The first tear fell on the water.
• She wakes up on her bed.
• Tries to bang the wall once again to find the door that lead to the outside world. But it was all a dream.
• Silhouette of the girl is shown.
• Candle (little wax left) fire dies.
Storyboard
Here are the sketches that I made over the Winter Break for my storyboard. I might make a few changes on some scenes, but here's the general idea.
NOTE: I forgot to include the title and credit scene! Oops..
Updated Storyboard:
Unfortunately, I had to remove some scenes because I had no more time left.
Concept Art
Here is my concept art for my main character, Luna.
Part 3 - Asset, Audio & Character Development
Assets
Beach scene made in Clip Studio Paint. Hrs: 2-3 hrs
Character Development
Here is the final Turnaround Sheet for the main character, Luna. It took approximately 2 classes to finish this.
Audio
Here are the sound effects that I used for some of my scenes:
• http://soundbible.com/911-Footsteps.html
• http://www.freesfx.co.uk/rx2/mp3s/4/16538_1460655601.mp3
• https://www.freesound.org/people/JanKoehl/sounds/85603/
• http://soundbible.com/885-Sea-Waves.html
• http://soundbible.com/1610-Power-Failure.html
Background music by: In Love With A Ghost
(I absolutely adore his/her music, and I always listen to his album whenever I need inspirations. Follow In Love With A Ghost if you love the audio that I used for my animation. <3)
https://soundcloud.com/in-love-with-a-ghost/i-thought-we-were-lovers-w-basil-1
Progress:
WIP for my character turnaround sheet.
Here's my scene 1 done (12/01/17 - 1:39 pm). MORE SCENES TO GO ;;
Straight Ahead Animation:
ARC:
Appeal:
Part 4: Final Animation
This was a challenge for me because at the start, I did very detailed work, which left me with little time to work on other scenes. I had to cut some out from the storyboard, and left what I think are the most important parts.
I definitely learnt that if I wanted to do more detailed work, I should've grabbed a partner along with me to split up the job. I also should've worked on my time management, knowing that I could only use Cintiq, and the programs that I needed to make the animation possible in my animation class.
Overall, I am pretty proud of the outcome, and I thought that even if I was struggling most of the time, this Summative is honestly one of the funnest thing that I have ever done. c:
