These are my first attempts at storyboarding my fable, I’m yet to finish it as still contemplating the ending and timing but so far some of the ideas that I’ve come up for for the scenes I think reflect what I’m trying to show rather well. I wanted to create an immersive animation that shows off alot of the characters traits and the world which shes in. Camera angles are so important in order to create clarity of story and time within an animation piece and even though I’m happy with this first attempt I will be relooking and designing these in the near future

For my story, I knew when we were tasked to create a 1 Minute animation that I wanted my story to reflect the animation/narratives/animatic style that has inspired me throughout my progression as an animator. Some of the key influencers for this project have been Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, Makoto Shinkai, Keiichi Sugiyama, Pendleton Ward, And Porter Robinsons animated music video ‘Shelter’.
I want to be able to create a character that resonates with a huge audience, having my character as a young innocent human being will already play on most peoples emotions and open up a connection from the get-go.

https://www.wcwonline.org/2010/humans-are-hardwired-for-connection-neurobiology-101-for-parents-educators-practitioners-and-the-general-public

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/maternal-instinct-is-wired-into-the-brain/

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/staring-baby-eyes-brain-waves-sync

As human beings are apparently ‘hardwired for connections’ especially when it comes to young children and this connecting to our instinctive nature (Paternal instinct and maternal instinct) to survive and to procreate in order to ‘keep the human race alive’. Especially when you look at why young children look how they do and how this connects to us, for example, large eyes on a baby and young child have what I would describe as a rather hypnotic element to them, I know when I look at a baby they tend to lock onto you and you both end up staring at each other. As the baby is trying to figure you out, life out etc, you take it upon yourself to show this new life how you should respond to human interaction, by smiling, waving, talking slowly, laughing and giving them the attention they need. This is such a crucial part in their development, so by having my child, not as young as a baby but still a child all the same, on her own in this unusual and strange world will hopefully trigger the viewers impulsive and internal empathy, concern and warmth.

Planning my narrative by typing it out instead of storyboarding straight away helps me alot to figure out the scenes especially the camera angles. My slight concern I have is the amount of different scenes and figuring out a way of fitting this all in alongside a title and credits. Next step would be to create an animatic to get a clearer understanding with the timing.

 

 

scene 1: Sun rises on a backdrop of buildings succumbed by nature and weathering away, still holding most their form but covered in strange plants and foliage.
scene: girl sits up and rubs her eyes/ background is the floating robotic orb
scene: close up on the orb
Scene : watches the sun rise before getting up, putting her back pack on and wandering off screen.
scene: orbs perspective looking down. girl finds a keyring. spirits are coming out of the earth
scene: spirits rub up against her and she giggles. close up on orb. orb flickers from blue to red.
scene: girl continues her journey, scenes change, spirits float around her
scene: while shes searching and spirits playing she looks up and the orb looks at her and is blue. creatures come back and it flashes red making horrible noise.
scene: she reaches out her hand and touches the orb, the spirits swirl down her arm. the orb calms and turns green.
final scene: all cosied up while the orb works as a night light.