When given the theme of nature, myself and my team started off by brainstorming in class on one of the whiteboards.

We had a few different ideas and did rough sketches of what we thought our designs would look like for each one. After some discussion we narrowed down our choices to five concrete narratives.

We ended up liking the second idea on this list – “love bee” – the best out of all of them. We liked the twist at the end of the flower the bee had been tending for all along eating him, after all the effort he put into caring for it. It’s also a short and simple narrative that would be easy to keep within the time limit. I also liked the idea of modeling different bees and thought there was potential for some really cute and simple character designs.

After cementing our bee idea, we decided to have a call over Discord on a night that suited our whole group. We all joined in on coming up with the story board. We used a collaborative art platform called Drawpile and worked together on a storyboard.

I took our rough sketches and compiled them together on photoshop so the narrative would make sense.

In our storyboard we have our Main Bee leaving the hive for the first time to pollinate flowers. He is accompanied by two other bees. This would give us 3 rigged models out of the 5 we need for our group. The Main Bee finds a wilted flower and, through a timelapse, grows to care for this flower and nurse it back to health. When a caterpillar threatens the flower he cares for, he scares it off. At the end, when the Main Bee is alone visiting the now fully healed flower, it eats him whole. The flower and caterpillar can also be fully rigged models, giving us a model each.