For this half of assignment 2, we have been asked to create a 20-30s animated short within our chosen groups. The short must derive from the theme or prompt of ‘nature’.
My group is comprised of Odhran McManus, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Dylan Short and Lauren Maxwell. After brainstorming our ideas on a class whiteboard, we found that we kept circling back to the idea of bees, and discussed how bees communicated via dancing.
From this, we generated our final idea; ‘Bee Yourself’; the story of a bee colony which only listens to classical music, then one day, a DJ bee introduces them to the genre of techno. At first, the bees do not like the new sound and smash his radio, but by combining their musical interests and remixing a classic song into an EDM beat, the bees share a common ground and they all dance together.
I had been brainstorming some character ideas and came up with these sketches and 3D prototypes;
Although I came up with the general shape of the character myself, I feel like the animations I watched growing up have influenced the art style I’ve developed for simple characters, most notably, the bees pictured in the Cartoon Network show ‘Adventure Time’;
