Idea (1) :
SYNOPSIS: An animated short about a slime that gains colour as it learns about human emotions, the more the user interacts with the slime, the faster it grows.
SETTING: A website / a desktop application
CHARACTER: A blob of slime that hatches from an egg when the user first touches it, resembles a human silhouette.
THEME: Growth / emotion
FORMAT: Digital animation
PERSPECTIVE: 3rd PERSON POV
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TREATMENT: Story We opened up a website (imagine an .io website) with an egg in the middle. We named the egg and by clicking in the egg, it hatches the egg. A slime came out of the egg, which is the main character of this animation. By interacting with the slime and the surrounding items, the slime starts to grow up. Gaining colours: Yellow : by playing with the slime Blue : leaving the slime for alone for quite a while, the slime will feel lonely and a bit down Red : When the slime was playing with it’s favourite item/toy, we tried to snatch it away from it, causing it feel angry (Would include more emotions/colors) We started to feel bored with the game. As the mouse hovers on the exit button, the slime’s worlds turn grey again. If we move the mouse away from the exit button, it goes back to the colourful world. The story ended with the mouse hovering onto the button. |
The website is black and white. The scene has yellow The scene has blue The scene has blue colour Immediate fade, leaving the viewers space to imagine the ending. |
SYNOPSIS: An interactive website about a slime that gains colour as it learns about human emotions as the user interacts with it
SETTING: A website
CHARACTER: A blob of slime that hatches from an egg when the user first touches it, resembles a human silhouette.
THEME: Growth / emotion
FORMAT: Interactive website
PERSPECTIVE: 3rd PERSON POV
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TREATMENT: We opened up a website (imagine an .io website) with an egg in the middle. The egg hatches, a slime comes out of the egg. Different toys/objects appear surrounding the slime. Gaining colours: The slime learns about happiness. The slime learns about loneliness. The slime grows bigger. It learns about anger. Ending : a)The slime’s worlds turn grey again. It starts to become static as the game is being reseted. b)The game continues as the slime keeps growing. |
The website is black and white. There is a pop up where the user could name the character. User clicked on the egg. The user gives the slime attention and care by giving the slime different objects. The slime feels happy/ satiated. User starts taking things away from the slime. By neglecting the slime for a few moments would enable the slime to feel down. When the slime was eating, the user tried to snatch away its food.
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2D animation that explores the issues that emerged from conflicts between morality and survival of human beings.
People are living in a world where they came from eggs and eat their eggs laid by humans.
In this imagined world, human is no longer viviparous, they are oviparous which lay and hatch eggs.
The world is controlled and ruled by a small portion of wealthy and authorised people in a higher social state, the “Mother”. When civilisation develops faster and better, overpopulation has resulted in serious problems like global warming, species extinction and resources shortage. People are competing and killing for resources.
In 2047, scientists have huge progress in solving the global food shortage crisis with the investing techniques that can trigger an instant growth of womans’ unfertilised eggs without sperms playing a role in the production. The unfertilised eggs can be eatable by adding different DNA of ingredient and nutrition. To maintain the sustainability of human and nature, this technology has sharply be adapted and massively processed in the world by building factories and farms.
To survive, people have agreed to lay fertilised eggs for mankind sustainability and unfertilised eggs for making food. Children who are being considered immature and fragile will never know the “ecosystem” of the community until they are 18 years old. Then they will be brainwashed to follow the rules and system for the good of the community and nature.
However, the secret that the “Mother” is keeping away from the community is that this technology has never been invested. To protect their wealth and powers, the “Mother” lies to the people about using eggs with foetus to make food. The truth is that there are no unfertilised eggs, fertilised eggs with foetuses inside will also be treated as food for human beings.
Main factory: people (women) laying eggs. Then eggs are being transferred to the food factory or farm on the conveyor belts.
Food factory: Some eggs are being processed into cans of food here.
Farms: Some eggs are being hatched here. Then they will be sent to different families. They grow up and becomes adults.
The government of the country. It gathers committee from the high social state of the country only.
A 12-year-old boy accidentally discovers the truth about people processing their eggs into food. He believes the eggs are his siblings and should have the rights to survive. He decided to save the eggs in the factory. He loves adventure and wants to be a doctor to save other people in the future.
An 11-year-old girl who is a friend of Adam. She is short but brave. She loves excitement and violence. She decided to save the eggs with Adam.
A 14-year-old boy who is a friend of Adam. He is timid and muscular. He loves exercise and believes that everyone in the world is kind and harmless. He decided to save the eggs with Adam.
He is working in the factory to secure the eggs and make sure the production line does not get disturbed.
The “Mother” and the system is being challenged by the three children who try to save the eggs inside the factory. Their morality and reasons behind their judgement and actions have been questions by the young adventurers.
The children are trying to break the rules set by the “Mother”. They believe that it is immoral to eat the eggs and hiding the truth. Eggs have the right to survive. They are trying to fight authority and the adults for justice of the eggs. The children almost get caught when they are trying to sneak into the factory. They are discovered and chased by the security.
The three children plan and sneak into the factory. The security discovers them and starts chasing after them.
The children hide inside some empty eggshells.
The security finds those and put them under a lamp to check if anything is inside. He sees the shadow of the kids but he believes that they are just being laid and accidentally falling from the conveyor belt. He put them back on the conveyor belt which is heading to the food factory. The kids have then been processed into food.