For this next term we have to make at least 2 projects one solo and one collaborative project. This is the part where the masters really starts to change its shape into what we want professionally so the next step of our education is self-directed study, to be able to work on our own and plan it properly. Ofcourse, in a stage where I feel unprepared being told what to do is more comfortable, but that is the point: to take us out of our comfort zone and learn from it.
My proposal for this project was an animated short story, with a story of my own, although that seemed over ambitious it’s never too bad to try it. So I began writting a story, and another and realised that I had a huge difficulty in finishing the story, what do I want to tell? What is the goal of all that? But I eventually wrote one, too big in fact. I set up a 1 to 1 with Luke and realised that i could do the story i wrote for my FMP and for this term’s solo project I chose to do a short story but this time, really short, not trying to explain anything just using a performance to tell a story. This way I believe I can improve the body language of my animations.
This story is about greed and fake friendships. A girl sees a handbag and immeadiately falls in love with it on her way to meet her girl friend for a tea, she walks in the shop, asks for the price and leaves as she has no money to afford it. When her friend shows up, she has the exact same bag she just saw and asks if she likes it, jealous of her friend, they drink their tea and a ninja comes and kidnaps her friend, surprised the girl sees her friend being taken, looks at the bag and keeps it to herself.
When searching for rigs I found a really cool website that had a lot of them and some free! So, the 3 characters I will use are from that website, Amanda, merry and Ninja.
The environments I need would be a cafe or a bar, the hall of a store and a street where the store is. I’m still looking for good environments but I can also create a simple environment with some assets and set a scene.