Part A (Narrative) - Final Animation

Part A (Narrative) - The Making of 'Once Button Twice Shy'

This is our making of our project.

Part A (Narrative) - Monkey Turnaround

This is a turnaround of our monkey.

Part A (Narrative) - Branding

This is our disc artwork for our Narrative Project that we've titled as 'Once Button Twice Shy'.

Part A (Narrative) - Maya Blockout

We have our initial workshop concept art for our toy workshop and did a Maya blockout to get our heads around what to be included in the scene. 

Initial Concept Art

We know that this is very "Ikea" like set up so we're working on it to make it feel more loved. We are also looking into the textures. We will most probably have a painterly kind of textures for our animation.

Part A (Narrative) - Exploring The Different Genres

Action/Adventure (A goal to achieve)

Essentially one long quest with a succession of issues to overcome. It has rising tension and anticipation leading to the final 'sequence.'

          Examples:

          ~ Flying a toy plane

          ~ Using toys to escape (toy plane, bouncing on a ball, skateboard)

          ~ Trying to be the toy on the top shelf/on pillow

Comedy 

There are many different ways to explore a comedy genre. The conventions that allow this are; Types of Comedy, Setting, Iconography, Character, Theme, Bright Colours.

          Subgenres within comedy:

          American ~ Cheesy

          Slapstick  ~ Banana skin (silly usually involves pain, timeless)

          Horror      ~ Seeing something unscary, VERY scary

          Adult        ~ Cheeky, unaware of its nature

Crime

Commonly the narrative offers room for debate

          Examples:

          Race, Policing, Gender, Social Events

Romance

There is a common plot within Romance: Boy meets Girl - They become good friends - There are frequent hints made that they would make a great couple - Unfortunately an argument makes the characters hate each other - Until a huge over the top gesture is made and the characters leave happily ever after.

Sci-fi

Generally following a disaster in the past, mankind turns to robotics and scientists to build a new world. Following Todorov's Narrative Theory.

Thriller

There is usually a crime at the core of the narrative, often a murder. The film is sculpted around this, with complex structures and false paths, clues and resolutions.

Horror (A fear of something)

Horror's tend to follow Todorov's Narrative Theory in a linear fashion. With tension climbing for the duration of the film until the resolution that answers all the questions rose within the film. 

          Examples:

          ~ Loosing limbs

          ~ Scissors

          ~ Loose threads

          ~ Dogs chew toy

Part A (Narrative) - Plot Ideas

After being given the theme of 'In a Toy Cupboard' and the phrase of 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy' we immediately started brainstorming and came up with several ideas. After thinking about style and content we have come up with three plots that we feel could be portrayed effectively. 

Plot 1 - Puppet 

•  Puppet looks up at his strings whilst dancing slowly
•  Flash back - puppet is dancing erratically, gets tangled and ends up having some of his strings cut
•  Cut back to the puppet dancing cautiously and slowly

Plot 2 - Bubblegum

• Character sees gum on the floor
• Flash back - same character seeing gum, rushing over to it and playing with it, becoming tangled
•  Cut back to the character avoiding gum

Plot 3 - The Thread 

• Character walks along and notices a loose thread on his leg
• Flash back - the same character pulling on a loose thread on his arm, resulting in a loss of limb
•  Cut back to present day, Character carefully fixes thread on leg