I mostly worked on my dissertation during this Week 4, watching several movies such as Ponyo and My Neighbours the Yamadas.

During Week 5 I worked on some storyboards as part of our animated project, which spans the whole length of the short from the opening scene to the end of the short. Due to our work in developing the story Brent was given an interest in spray painting, and we agreed on having Brent run into the circus tent after a storm ruins his spray art. Brent’s father was scrapped and Brent himself was given an interest in street art to go along with his hobby of skateboarding. The ending part shows Javier and Brent bonding over creating a new piece of spray paint art, and ending with Javier giving Brent a note so they could contact each other again.

Here are the storyboards I created, along with a test picture of Javier.