"I have an idea!"

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

"I have an idea!"

After weeks of ideas being thrown around and not deciding upon an idea to go with for our group project, I got an idea, pitched it to the group and all agreed to stick with this one. Now that we have a story idea, we can begin pre-production:
- developing the story/script
- creating storyboards
- editing together animatics
- concept art work
- character design
- environment design

IDEA -
It's autumn/winter time of year.
An owner gives her dog a biscuit which he takes outside into the garden.
Before he gets a chance to eat it, a bird swoops in and snatches it!
Disappointed, the dog goes and asks his owner for another, which confuses her as she just gave her dog a biscuit?
The same thing happens over the next few days with different comical scenarios of the birds taking the dog's biscuits.
Until one day the dog ends up in a tug of war with one of the birds.
The owner spots this happening from the kitchen window and races outside to choo the bird away! Caw caw!
The owner then realizes that the bird's have been stealing all of the dog's biscuits.
The last shot see's the owner hanging a bird feeder in the garden for the hungry birds and the dog happily munching on his own biscuit finally!

Some concept sketches to explain the story:

This encompasses everything each of us would like to have in a project for each of our own goals:
a human character and an animal character to rig,
2 characters with opposite personalities (the dog and the bird),
an underlying/abstract message,
and plenty of opportunity for entertaining, humorous, and empathetic performances to animate.

INSPIRATION -
(personally I am inspired by humorous situations observed in everyday life)

Birdbox's Carpark: