Concept Task Week 4:

Interrogation 2,

 3D Animation:

This concept is a complete full 3D animation. It starts off with a basic shape like a cube that transforms into a character, the character will grow all the basic features; legs, arms, eyes but still keeping it really simple. The character will then begin to travel along the screen. As his walking he suddenly bumps into a sphere who also transforms into a character, he grows wings and pops out eyes still very basic, has the ability to fly around, they continue traveling along the screen as they bump into a pyramid, who also transforms into a character and all three continue along screen. They come to a roadblock a wall stands in their way, they must work together to get past and solve this problem. They eventually solve the problem but unfortunately get trapped in a box/cage. In this box/cage there is a button on the wall that states: “press to activate”, box boy walks over and clicks button, the camera zooms out to reveal the box/cage is actually the original Box boy before the transformation, the animation clip can then repeat itself on a loop.

There personalities will be defined by there actions; the animation has to be nice clear/clean.

 

Kate's Thought's:

What’s interesting here is your use of those really basic building blocks of 3D – why have you chosen these? Do they have distinct personalities as well as abilities? Figuring out the detail of the ‘puzzles’ they need to solve and why it takes the three of them seems a next step

 

Interrogation: 

Who are my characters?

There will be three main characters each character transforms from a simple shape (cube, sphere, pyramid) into a more advanced character but still fairly simple that only has those basic features.

 

What style is the animation going to be like?

The animation will have a clean simple style to the characters and the background environment. Soft and clean.

 

What are the puzzles they must past?

A wall of some sort with an odd shape hole in the middle of it, the three must work together to create the shape needed to pass through the wall.

 

What is the length of the animation?

The animation will be around 30-40 seconds long that can be replayed on a constant loop.

 

What background is going to be used, color, white, real scene?

The environment will be very simple either a soft light solid colour or a basic white background with shadows from the characters, very simple.

 

Are the characters going to be textured?

No they will be sold colour no textures, one colour will be selected to each character but using various shades to make the character soft.

 

What are the characters personalities?

The box boy is the smart safe, sensible one; the pyramid is the tough muscle guy, and the sphere is the curious character who gets the others into trouble but still has a cutesy tone to its personality.

 

What's the sound/ music going to be like?

The music will be happy subtle tones; the characters wont talk but will make harmonic grunt type noises when they communicate to each other through their actions.

 

What is the target audience?

Target audience will be a younger age as it does deal with a happy feeling theme, which would really intrigue a younger based audience. Anyone interested in animation will also be interested in watching the clip.