Turn Around of the “Idea”A new website, a year, and now a new film. I realized that my previous film was far to complex to finish on my own in a reasonable amount of time. The main problems with “Riot” are too many characters and an overly realistic design. In developing my new film I have outlined a single main character with only a couple sets. By building a story on a single place and a single character I can focus on the animation rather than many different characters and sets.
The “Idea” as I am currently calling it, is about an idea come to life from a stack of paper. Simple. Probably a film that has been done many ways before. My objective to do my own take on a common story and see if it draws and audience.
Here goes.
The main image of the post is a paint over 3D sketch of a stack of paper on my desk which will serve as the main set. The lighting is going to change a bit as I have shifted the time to an early morning but the spotlight effect will stay the same.
The “turn-around” sketch is a quick drawing I made before working on the final design for the main character. I decided that the film will be a self portrait so I used my logo as the characters face while his body is folded from a ripped out section of a page. The other two drawings are more sketches of the character.
More concept art, hopefully some finished storyboards, next week.
(It would be foolish to expect updates weekly seeing as how I tried that before, but then some mistakes are meant to be repeated.)
Shot and set design
“Idea” Character Design
17 February 2010
