For this week, we were first put into several groups, each group was given a task, create a storyline for a future animation, my group had to come up with 25 smaller ideas, these were the ideas I came up with:
The one we ended up choosing however was this: Group of people living on a submarine at the bottom of the ocean, unable to escape. They have plants that can regenerate the oxygen, and several generations have been born under the sea – a society and new religion is developing in this forgotten tribe. They worship a deep sea squid as their deity.
An idea which we further developed to have a main character who goes in search of this submarine for the treasures/documents, so he can bring to the surface, however when he arrives, finds that there a civilization of people, and overtime becomes interested in these people, to which he begins to document his time there, before becoming one of the worshipers.
The other Character we made was the sole survivor, the only one who doesn’t worship the squid god and instead chooses to continue living his life away from the rest of the worshipers, to inevitably be killed once the MC turns.
During the week we also then needed to work on perspective drawings, taking 3 screenshots of scenes from shows that we watched and lined them up with Horizon lines and one/two perspective points.
The first scene that I had chosen was from the End of Evangelion, a scene in which both characters are shot from a low angle, mid-shot, with them both placed to the left of the frame. I interpreted this to be a two-point perspective, as the several perspective lines match up with the background and some of the lines in the foreground, with a horizon line directly in the centre of the screen, and most of the lines coming from the bottom left of the frame.
The second scene I chose was from Initial D: Forth Stage, this shot is framed from a high angle, at a mid-shot, following both cars down a road. I saw this a one-point perspective shot, having just the lines coming from far left outside the frame, this shows as it matches with the one non-subject that’s visible, with one of the lines even running though both of the cars, showing a definitive perspective line.
The final shot that I had chosen was from JoJos Bizzare Adventure: Part 4, this shot if again framed from a high angle, but is not shot from as near a high angle, and is only at a slight incline, it is also made unclear as to whether this is a Mid shot or a POV shot, as in the series there is a stalker type character. As for the shot itself, I saw it as a three-point perspective, as there are three different roads that lead off, each representing the characters, most of the perspective lines match up, and in fact, I feel that the perspective lines behind the main characters perfectly match the road behind them.
Finally, there were the several small thumbnails that needed to be completed for our world, each of the ones I created focused on different possible scenes for our animation, but all of them tried to feature the main antagonist of the story, that being the squid, making his presence felt throughout the whole of the story.
