February 2010
5 posts
WatchVideo capture.
January 2010
9 posts
Scene 5
Concept: Betrayal from someone you thought you could trust.
Environment: Daytime. Outdoor. Fire pyre on one corner of scene. Palace.
Animated: Fire
Characters: Girl, king, 11 swans, 11 brothers
Initial Character State: Girl and king stand apart.
EVENTS:
Text: “Every day she grew more and more attached to him, and longed to confide in him, tell him her sufferings; but dumb she must remain”
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Scene 4
Concept: How much are you willing to give up for someone you love?
Environment: Cave, nettles, castle in sky, grass, knitting needles
Animated: castle in sky,
Characters: Girl, fairy, king
Initial Character State: Girl sleeps in green cave, nighttime.
EVENTS:
Text: “Your brothers can be delivered, but have you courage and endurance enough for it?”
1. Fairy comes out of the castle. Girl goes...
Scene 3
Concept: For this moment you have hope. You search and he comes back to you. You think maybe this time you can all be happy.
Environment: Ocean, clouds, net
Animated: Ocean, castle in sky (constantly changing)
Characters: 11 brothers, girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Swans and girl sit by the ocean together.
EVENTS:
Text: “We brothers,” said the eldest, “have to fly about in the guise...
Scene 2
Concept: First you have no hope, then you decide you will make it work no matter what.
Environment: Trees, animals
Animated: River moving, pepples pop out, feathers
Characters: Girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Girl continuously moves around the set.
EVENTS:
Text: “Poor Elise wept, and thought of her eleven brothers who were all lost.”
1. Second scene animates in. Girl immediately...
Scene 1
Concept: Loss of someone that you love suddenly, without warning.
Environment: Castle, hills, gravestone, houses, ground, trees, sky
Animated: Bats flying, windmill spinning, clouds wiggling
Characters: King, stepmother, 11 princes, girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Outside of castle, king stands by gravestone.
EVENTS:
Text: “Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived...
December 2009
7 posts
WatchInteractive scene 2. Water is made using perlin noise! Fireflies are just random positioning. To be added: moving animals, fruit that falls from a shaken tree.
WatchUpdated interactive scene 1. Somehow it has become a windy day…
To be added: sounds and music.
WatchInteractive background for Scene 1. Clouds and windmill are interactive. To be added: interactive trees, castle door, clouds waving even without interaction.
Motivation
Today in class we watched a beautiful film called Ashes and Snow (the website doesn’t do the film justice, although you can get an idea of its imagery). The film was quiet and crisp, with images such as children sleeping with elephants, and a man swimming underwater holding onto the tusks of an elephant. It was overlaid with sometimes cliche but still very personal speech. And my teacher...
WatchFlash birds animation test for first scene, using fake boids code. Currently the birds follow the mouse, but I’ll change it so they fly to a random point, then switch to another point once the birds reach the first point.
November 2009
16 posts
