Rough Cut

This is the rough Cut for the first animation for this year.

This is a really nice story

I love the simple animation style and mixture of photos and 2D animation and the great story.

Stop Motion

The Little Prince is a famous French book and the inspiration for this moleskin add. I like the use of layers of paper to create depth and the pale colours in the animation.

Animatic

This is the animatic to the storyboard and script in the previous post. I'm quite happy with the sound, although I think there still needs to be more ambient noise in the bamboo forest, the main character needs to be shown, and parts of the difference between photos, TV shots and real life need to be shown.

Skunk Fu! Animation Style

I like the bright solid colours and minimalist animation style when it comes to textures and detail, to emphasize the characters and actions in the episodes.

Concept 1: Synopsis and Storyboard

The animation is the beginning of a much broader story, introducing the main character and setting to continue the story in depth. The animation opens with the daily life of the main character in approximately 1-2 second long extreme closeups snapshotting her life, emphasising our dependence on technology in our day to day lives and the mundane routine of daily life. Here it is revealed that she works for a security company monitoring phone conversations, she is currently looking for her sister who has been missing for some months, and is one in a lone line of people who have recently gone missing. On an international level, there is the very real threat of war between America and China, and in preparation for war, America has started a controversial army breeding program which is rumoured to be in crisis. That night she is abducted and wakes up inside the underground breeding program with a small group of people who have rescued her from the breeding facility, which is now overrun by awol soldiers. She has 48 hours to try and find her sister and reach the other side of the facility to escape.

Editing Style

I like the editing style in Shaun of the Dead, where mundane parts of the movie are sped up by quickly showing closeups of what they are doing. In this video the extreme close ups are shown in the first few seconds.

Dollhouse

The TV series Dollhouse, is set in the present, where people have their minds wiped and replaced with new personalities and personal histories for hire for the rich. The idea of using machinery to permanently alter someone's mind and then wipe it for a new assignment and artificially constructing personalities and histories to create completely new people for a few hours or a few days fascinating.

People in Machines

I started by looking at other Sci-Fi takes on the idea of The Post Human in Dr. Who. The episodes, The Long Game, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, are set on Satellite 5, which broadcasts all of the universe's news and entertainment to earth. The journalists in satellite 5 have implants in their brains, which are holes in the foreheads opened when you click your fingers, to connect with the satellite and gather and share information for broadcast, Using peoples brains as part of the computer. The season ends with The Doctor discovering that there is a girl permanently wired into the computer from the age of six.

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The season 2 episode, The Girl in the Fireplace, is a case of AI gone wrong, where a ship suffers so much damage that there are not enough parts to fix the ship, so the repair droids start using body parts from the crew as parts of machinery.