For my first project I am delving more into animation even though I have also studied film. As much as I love film, right now creating animations interests me a bit more. More specifically I want to make animated short films. To be inspired for this project I had watched many animated short films and analyzed what made them good and what I wanted to take away from them. The two that I enjoyed the most and inspired me the most was "Piper" a Pixar short and "Spring" a Blender Open film. What I enjoyed most about them was the life they brought to the characters and how real they felt. This is something I hope I can achieve.
Planning:
This was my biggest struggle so far I had trouble creating my idea. I went days even possibly weeks without a definite idea for my animated short film. At first I wanted to use real film and layer animation above it, but because I was not educated enough about animation yet and my story was based in spring the idea fell through. So, I scrolled through every page in Blendswap as to find a character to use and maybe have that inspire me. To my luck this did work. I found these two characters and after this the ideas came flowing through.Production:
I have not finished this project nor am I near to finishing. So far I have my whole story planned out with camera angles/movements and animation, even most of the editing aspects and I have started creating the scene that this story takes place in. I still need to rig the robots, finish the scene, and obviously animate and execute my plan.
The Story:
The story I have created is about two robots in a scrapyard/landfill. Here one robot awakens from a thunderstorm one night and is now autonomous. Not really truly understanding who he is or what to do he starts collecting random trash from around the dump. One day he stumbles across another robot. This peaks his interest, so he then tries to communicate with it. But, there is one problem... that robot does not work anymore. Still wanting the company he stays with the robot hoping it will awaken just as he did. Then a disaster and a miracle happens. A dump truck pours trash all over them, but in doing so the robot also finds batteries to power the other robot and he can finally awaken.The last part of the story is a bit iffy because if it is just batteries then the robot will only last for so long, so I don't know if I will change that or not, because it would be a bit more realistic, but it is also a very sad thought and I don't know if I want my robot to go through that.
Difficulties:
Some problems I see in the future are creating lightning and day and night cycles. These are two things I've never done before and will really have to study how to do them. Also, when it comes to lightning I don't know if I should just use after effects or create a simulation in blender. Another problem I foresee is haw long it will take and if the computers can handle it. I already plan to render it out in sections, but what if they can't even render at all. I have to use cycles because both robots were created in cycles and I don't want to lose their textures and because of that I am worried with crashing and not being able to complete or render the final project.
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