FINAL PRESENTAION

This project has come a long way. There has been some great number of changes and moments where a lot of ideas were discarded because of its unoriginality. That being said, I really enjoyed the process of pushing myself constantly over and over again, in the hope of getting something better than what i had before.

At times I was very frustrated, annoyed and even thought about dropping my concept to make something easier, something non abstract. But then again at those moments my professor has really encouraged me to make sure I keep with the direction I had. He helped a lot in looking beyond the obstacle and looking at the bigger picture. With this in mind I have been able to complete the preproduction to my liking. I feel confident in going and animating this concept in the spring semester.

That being said, I would still like to further develop it over the summer, just to prepare myself for a whole year filled with animation.

Here is the final pitch which I presented. I had a lot better of a welcome from my professors when i pitched this concept, and i hope that this concept will be approved and that i would be able to execute it next year.

ANIMATIC AND FINAL STORYBOARD

With the sound figured out, I was both working on refining the storyboard as well making my animatic as perfect as possible. This included making a lot more frames than what I had in the storyboard. If I only include the frames from the storyboard the animatic would just look like a slide show. I want to be able to show the animation and the transitions in the animation.

Here is the animatic with the sound and some new frames form the storyboard.



For the storyboard, I included some more new frames, and here are those frames.

And this is the new storyboard.

SOUND DESIGN

Even though I was suposed to work on the animatics, I really wanted to have good audio for the animatic. I enjoy visuals with good audio. I used ProTools for the creation of the sound. I recorded the voice over using my friend Adin. Then I added about 7 tracks to complete the audio track.

Here is the audio track.

Here is a screenshot of how the track looks like in ProTools.

STORYBOARDS

Although I did not have more time to refine the style frames, since I knew the exact look I was going for, i was more concerned about refining the story and the storyboard. These are the first storyboards I created.

I wanted to created super smooth animation while the scenes transitioned form one scene to another so i focused a lot on the transitioning elements too.  The overall story is supported by the script which is going to be narrated as a voice over. So this will help tell the story a lot more easier.

I got soem feedback about the storyboard, the main problem was the problem of having too many swirling motions in the last frames. I will be thinking about how to fix these without changing the overall animation and transitions. 

Here is some of the process work: (sketches)

STYLE FRAMES

Now that I have the script figured out I am working out the style and the mood of the animation. When the animation starts, it will start off as being a dark and scary environment. But as the character progresses through the story the mood will change from the dark scary environment to a more pleasant, action driven environment.

Here are some of the style ideas which i have, created:

REFINED SCRIPT

I have been rethinking my idea and script for  a while now. Rather than trying to convey the message through the abstract illustration which i pitched before, I am thinking more in terms of iconic, symbolic illustrations to get the message across.


I did like the old script which i had before but to jstify it to the iconic and symbolism which I am going for with the new illustraion of the concept I  would like to focus on someone who is failing over and over again because of the way he thinks. So my script will some what describes where he stands and how thinking about the unknown in a positive way will lead him to success. (full potential)


Heres flow (of words which i have for it):

Failure, 

Paralyzed, 

Ignorance, - is bliss, and the reality - Ignorance is paralysis.Lack of confidence, Doubt, Fear, -being trapped in this emotions almost as if prisoned. Unknown, - fear of the unknown, unable to surpass the fearCourage, Curiosity, Inspiration, - A choice for him to move on, Questions, - not understand the reality he is in right nowExcitement, Desire, Action, Adventure, - Playing and experiencing the world.
Experiences, Learning, Knowledge,

Practice, Improvement, leading him to reach the full potential and break free of who he was before Full potential.

So basically the unknown can be looked at in two ways, positively or negatively. The person whom i am addressing the message has been looking at it in a negative way and that is why we start from the negative side of the spectrum and help him move to the positive using the script.


I was trying a lot of different combinations and finally came up with this one with the help of one of my friends who is Studying corporate Psychology.


Knock, knock – the Unknown is here

Will you open?
/No. Ignorance is bliss./
Ignorance is paralysis
Soiled by fear and doubt, there is no way out 

This cramped confinement you are in
Imprisoned
Open the door
A question will lure you in
Back to a world of action
I promise, curiosity stirred the inspiration of many
the world is a playground for your adventure, sow your invention into its depth
and in time, full potential you will reapS
Success

Here is some of the process work for the script:

BELIEVING IN THE CONCEPT

Even though some of my professors did not see my concept as having a good potential for development, I did not give up on what i believed in. I was very confident with my concept statement and I see a great thesis animation using the concept. So I decided to not change the concept, but to try and find other ways of portraying the concept. Such as seeing the possibilities of illustrating it a different way. 

Before any of this could happen i wanted to try and fix my script for the concept. Since the script was a going back and forth. There were places where the script was carrying the action forward and then because of the choice of the words i had it sometimes went backwards. This process of figuring out the perfect flow of the script was one of the hardest things for me since I am not a great writer and I personally hate writing. 

This did not stop me from coming up with a better script, I tried getting help from my professors and also friends I had. They all were very supportive in helping me with the script.

This is what i have so far form the previous script which I wrote. 

We all have a fear
Fear creates a doubt
Doubt generates a fall
Fall gives raise to success
Success brings experience
Experience results in learning

Learning triggers a question 
Question leads to an adventure 

Adventure evokes excitement 
Excitement triggers curiosity
Curiosity provokes an action
Action fuels potential
Potential within.


This is sort of my visual representation of how potential and ignorance work. I developed this model with my professor Ed Cheetham: