This week, we were told to form groups of 4-5 so we can start thinking of ideas for our assessment 2. For this assessment, we have to create a 15-30 animated short based on the theme of ‘nature’. For this assessment, I am working with Jasmin, Cloe, and Lydia, who I worked with last semester, and Jorja, who I have not yet worked with. It was only me and Jasmin on campus this week, but we were able to talk to the others on discord to come up with ideas for our animation.
We decided to split our themes into 3 categories. Animals, plants, and others. Jasmin’s first ideas involved a snake cowboy and penguins who mate for life. My first idea was to have the 4 elements (fire, earth, air, and water) fight to see whose powers were the strongest. Cloe also had the idea of doing plants and flowers inspired by D&D. Everyone, however, agreed we wanted to do a more light-hearted animation, as our animation last semester was more serious.
By the end of the lesson, we all agreed that our favourite ideas were the 4 elements, a new idea from Jasmin involving a Mexican wave from cacti at a football match and Cloe’s D&D plants, inspired by Tim Burtons.
