Week 3: Concept art, Treatment, Storyboarding and Character design

WEEK 3

Things are starting to get turbo charged. Vaughn's BSA225 assignment 1 is due March 8, aka very soon. So it is time to kick my butt into overdrive and start ticking requirement boxes.

It is a bit annoying that I still can't get into the downtown campus with my ID card though. Hope that is fixed soon.

Treatment/ Script

Draft 1 of the treatment has been finished. I'll do several sweeps over it to look for errors or improvements and I'll run it past my classmates.

Looking at multiple possibilities for my Dancer character and the character of Marcus (although he is planned to be mostly off screen at this point).

Week 3 draft of character designs
Still in Progress

End of week 3

Work in progress

Music Choices

There are several sets of music in the short film and I have been taking the time to explore my options for all the different possibilities. I want to stay away from things like rock anything with heavy use of an electric guitar.

Everything I use needs to be copyrighted, so simply using my personal favourite music is a no go (it would be pretty lazy anyways.

For the part of the film where the music changes and the Dancer responds accordingly I wanted to look at maybe using electro swing. This due to the fact that I know it is a music genre meant for dancing and also because it is something I have gotten into recently.

Electroc swing

Gee - Electroswing Revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkNgbkcvog

Gee - Electroswing 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MwJg3iDtg4

Helpful info/ miscellaneous research 

I have been looking at the music videos for the popular French electroc swing band Caravan Palace for the dancing used. 

Rock it for me - Caravan palace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI

Dramaphone - Caravan palace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7lxd7RL1To

Animation Style choices

While I have mentioned some of my personal influences in the past two weeks, now that I have the idea and treatment down I feel like it is time to do some hardcore research on 3D animation and how I intent to pull this off.

I think the "Waltz Duet" is a animation I should continue to 

CGI 3D Animated Short HD: "Waltz Duet" - by Team Valse à Quatre Mains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUcRdKdGMxo

CGI 3D Animated Shorts HD: "SpellBound" by Ying Wu & Lizzia Xu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuNdTpjXkJ0

Disney Pixar

I feel like a good place to start is Pixar/ Disney Pixar. Their work has mass appeal and is reasonable simplistic. They use bright, interesting and expressive colour palettes and character designs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oCx6w7cpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEl__CfOT7U

http://b-dunn.deviantart.com/