So Far...

Just want to add this post to explain were I’m at with this project. For now I have come up with a story idea which I hope once I have had my interim crit, I will be able to start properly storyboarding next week. By the end of next week I hope to have finished my final storyboards along with an Anamatic giving me three weeks to test and finish my final animation.

As I have mentioned in the past few weeks of the project, my two concepts for my one minute animation are; a matchbox and a Myopic. With these two concepts I hope to create a subtle comedy based around love.

- Story Idea – The matchbox is lonely, He suffers from Myopia but doesn’t know it. In the first of the three acts I want to introduce the character to show the audience what Myopia is all about giving them a general understanding or emotion to the character. I have been looking at some “Mister Magoo” to help with my research but I don’t want to look at it too much otherwise the final piece could lack originality. After the audience has become aware of the character I want to give him an aim.

At the end of chapter one, I want to show the matchbox aiming in on an interest. In this case, he finds himself becoming excited towards a “Belisha beacon” (Light at a zebra crossing). He finds himself becoming mesmerized by the beacon believing it to resemble a giant match. He wants to fill the emptiness which fills his box.

Now this is where I’m rather stuck, I have never been very good at rounding off a story and this is why it is taking me a while to resolve the final scene. I was originally thinking that I wanted the matchbox to try and woe the beacon but in all of his attempts become aware of it as just a beacon and not a match at all.

- For the essay, I have already tried to get an early start by researching two people who I find of interest. Firstly I have been looking a Winsor Mccay because true fully I find his work really inspirational, especially with this unit and animation in general. What he did for animation in the early 1900’s is truly amazing, something we all have him to thank for. The Second person I have been looking at Is John Lasseter. To me he is another who is amazing with what he has achieved. I really like the two of them as they are at opposite ends of the animation timeline. Hopefully my draft for this essay will be finished at the start of the Easter term freeing up time for me to complete the animation.

- Lastly but also as important as the rest of the posts content, I just want to update on the time line. So far I have research in word document folders which I’m trying to add up in order. I was thinking though if it would be possible to add a post at the end of the project with the links of my posts in order of the Animation timeline. Starting from beginning to end in the correct order. Hopefully this will make it a lot easier for people to access in the near future.