Studio 1 Week 3 Work Summary

This week was focused towards character design and storyboarding. I finalised the initial character design I had created for my short film and found myself brainstorming narrative plot points and general story elements. Additionally, I began to look into the transformative animation style I hope to utilise once I begin animating in frame by frame.

For reference, I looked to artist "Cutec3" on youtube:

"Bad Guys" - https://youtu.be/mREPd_GPlKg 

"Detroit: Become Human" - https://youtu.be/qG360f6kEQ8

Both of these short films are excellent demonstrations of smart transitions and morphing in animation. This style is the kind of animation I would like to emulate in my film, using the prop of a Phone as the focal point when it come to switchings scenes and environments. 

My first pass of storyboards are passable, although I do think that a fair amount of re-thinking and smarter style transitions could benefit these work in progress boards. I will continue to update and change these boards until I am happy with them, then I will begin to move things into a storyboard stage. I will also begin to focus my attention on running some rough animation tests in the art style I am going for.