What didn’t work: but helped in creating the final story.

The story I came up with:

Similarly to the little red riding hood but instead with a twist, the little girl must deliver a little farm animal to a neighbour and gets stopped by a well-mannered fox or so it seemed. He tricks her and eats her farm animal – The story still felt too much like its inspiration and not everyone was into the idea.

The storyboard:

The mood board as well as reference for the character designs, most elements were still used for the final story:

Overall style (colours, art style – grungy, realistic): Corallines 2009 doll, Tim burton, Pinocchio 1940, the sandman1992.

The characters of this story were inspired by characters from the mood board and were used as in inspiration for myself in creating my final design:

Grandma – The mother in kolobok 1956.

The fox – Fox from kolobok 1956, fox in pinnochio 1940, fox in Rango 2011.

The bunny – Sylvanian family doll rabbit.

The little girl – coraline 2009, masha 2009.

The sketch:

3D attempt :

Stage – a vintage French guignol theatre, Slavic home from kolobok 1956.

Communicating with the team:

We discussed and put together a story with our own addition, while drawing inspiration from the previous story and focusing on the moral of heed the warning.

We tasked ourselves to creating the final character designs, a stage and a storyboard.

The final story for our animation:

To put it simply it’s a story about a little bunny that doesn’t listen when warned by a squirrel and a hedge hog, not to wander too far away and gets killed by a fox.