This week, after going through presentations, we were tasked with forming the group we will be working with going forward for this semester’s second assignment – a 15 to 30 second 3D animation.
My group is myself, Samantha, Ciara, Ellie and Will. We spent the afternoon of allotted time concepting ideas, trying to ascertain how we could tell a basic story with the use of simple characters. We toyed around with the idea of vegetable characters, characters which look like rayman (detached hands and feet) until finally Ellie suggested a type of character that we all loved the idea of: Ghosts. Ciara promptly suggested toast ghosts, which I think had originally been a joke but we did come up with a few ideas around that theme. In the end, I am of the opinion that whilst this is very funny and we had a lot of fun drawing with it, it would be a little too difficult to come up with a plot around this theme.
We moved on and I came up with the idea of Ghost Gardeners – These ghosts are responsible for tending to and restoring abandoned graves in their cemetery. I thought that this would be a nice plot, we could make it quite emotional with elements of humour here and there. These are some little doodles I came up with:
