Animated Narratives week 5

Week 5- character design and group discussion by s3884123 Huang Yangkai (Sam)

In this week, we focus on the how to create a character, its traits and appearance.

In the group discussion, we create two character who are roommates. One is an man who is tall and slim but very self-centered (his character reference is Sheldon form big bang) another is woman who is plump but kind and good-tempered (just like Sheldon’s girlfriend Amy), their traits are very contrasting, which can make the plot easy to process.

Our story was happened in a daily life, the man and woman are clearing the kitchen together. And suddenly the man is so angry because the woman put the plates to shelf but not drying them. The man argue with the woman, but the woman aren’t reacted just waiting the man finish his words which make the man more angry. But the man stop the complain when he see the potted plant under the shelf, and switch to embarrassed. However the woman say: sorry~, i am too lazy but some little guys will help me to dry the plates which also can help their growth. The man feel shame and say: yes, i think someone also need to grow.

By this group discussion, i have been studied the way to establish the character and let the trait of character to serve the plot, also combine the method which we studied before weeks, making the conflict on the story to reflect the traits of the role.