Telling Tales - Week 3

We've made some changes to our schedule this week after discussing the script and adding some fine tuning here and there, with some general advice from Dotty. Natalie's networking powers got us an interested music student from Leeds University who wants to make sounds and music for our animation. As Dotty pointed out, the animatic should be sorted pretty quickly to give them something to work with, so Emily and I are focussing on getting storyboards finished while Natalie focusses on the character designs.

Telling Tales - Week 2

This week we met up as a group and made a general plan of when we should get everything finished by. I made a rough script that Emily really liked but will need some tweaks regarding the mirror scene near the end of the animation. We also experimented with different styles on the computer and now have a general idea of what kind of background we're looking for, but our personal task for this week will be to do some research.

I made some doodles to bounce off some ideas of a possible character design for the main character

Telling Tales - Week 1

A new year a new module! This week we were introduced to group projects, with our teammates and story ideas being picked by chance. My new teammates for this project are Emily and Natalie and I'm looking forward to working with them on our first group animation! We had to use story cubes as the source of inspiration for our pitch and my cubes were a baby, a mirror and an old lady.

The die that fate dealt me

I ultimately decided to pitch the story of an elderly lady who goes on a quest to find a magical mirror to relive the memory of her lost child, and was surprised when it got picked by the class. As Emily is good with organising deadlines and was generally eager for the part, she was dubbed the director.