Group work below:
"If the tiger gets out, will it eat us?"
"I will never work in my life"
- The young child peers out into the enclosure
- We see a heft tiger stretch out its limbs and scratch itself
- The child looks up to their parent with a nervous look and speaks
- We see a close up of the tiger and it appears to be an employee in a suit
- The tiger points to their opening mouth
- Somone sends food to their mouth
- The tiger is eating and relaxing in the sun and mummbles to itself
- We see the mum reassure the child and in the background we see a food stall with an unusual looking vendor
This week I created a storyboard based on this week’s group activity where we used dialogue snippets to form the basis of our scenarios and characters. Through this process I found myself leaning more heavily on character design to help establish the context and emphasize the drama of the story.
Animation provides the freedom to build story details or insights into a character's internal state into the physical designs of our characters. In this work, I designed exaggerated characters that emphasize their characteristics to aid in creating a sense of drama and to convey their roles.
'Steven Universe' by Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGcRotPd5xk) utilises character design to inform the audience of a character's personality or other traits.
I naturally gravitate towards strong visual design and I feel driven to produce polished work, however, this week I feel the storytelling really suffered due to an inflexibility in my design process that inhibited my ability to quickly iterate.