New Story Ideas (OMG, no!!)

So we met on Sunday the 28th to discuss the fate of Red. New throwups!

CAMERA TURN, SEA & PLAIN CUBES
1) Rember the initial idea to link the rubik rotation with the camera moves (flipping and turning the camera 180/ 360 degrees etc). Instead of just having it at the part where she grabs onto the red balloon, the 2nd camera move could occur at the TV scene

- she watches the montage of herself and INSTEAD of tv shaking and she fall
- a tv floats horizontally, surreally.. and then more and more
- camera tilts 270 and we realize the tvs are falling!
- red falls with along with them

2) Instead of falling into a tv bleaching tank, red falls into a bleaching sea (along with the rest of the tvs)

3) tvs corrode and devolves into a simplified tv.... a plain cube of various shades

4) red falls into that room. the plain cubes have become 9x9 squares. story is the same from here on as prev mentioned...

HOW THE GREYS CAME ABOUT
1) another answer to the whole "WTH did the greys come from?" mystery

- towards the end as red lands onto the street... cubes fall from the sky. ( the same cubes from the sea.. get it :) ?)
- the cubes morph into greys.. then we see the whole army of 'em walking just like in the beginning


ALTERNATE ENDING (that links to the beginning)
- show sequence where red is trying to solve a rubik
- she gives up and throws cube in frustration
- cube is seen spinning and falling
- lands... just like the intro. ( can show or dun show with just sound of it crashing?)

shall post more tmr for the research and stuffs... work hard guys. :)

Here's a quick sketch of the TV graveyard scene I've been yammering about. Forgive the roughness.

Edit: Another quick sketch. Greys attacking Red in the tidal wave fashion.

Saw this video on Youtube.

Summary for the discussion on 22 Sep

Opening:

Cube falls in one of the faces flickers with static. The story starts.

Story:

Red walks down the street against the flow of Greys. So knocks into one of them. The mask on the Grey drops and breaks. Grey's 'face' is actually an empty space in its head. Grey bloats up and transforms into a Grey balloon. 

The other Greys stop to look at Red. They attack her. But when they touch her, they all explode into grey balloons. Red runs away.  Amidst the confusion, a red balloon warps through the Greys. Red grabs it and floats away through the grey balloons.

Red finds herself in a TV graveyard. TVs begin to flicker on and off. She lands on one and views the nearest TV beside her. She watches, mesmerized, and lets go of the balloon. Suddenly, the TV below her shakes and she falls down.

Red splashes into a TV screen. She enters a pool of colored water. Slowly, the color fades into a dull grey, so does she.

She drops out of the pool, and into a padded white room like the one in an asylum. She catches her breath. But the gasping soon turns into coughing. She coughs out a piece of string. She grabs it and pulls it out.

Pop! Out comes the red balloon. Red's color reappears. Slowly, the balloon floats up, carrying Red with it. The world transforms into a street. Red lands on the ground and releases the balloon. There are Greys approaching her.

Concepts:

Buildings will be twisted and distorted. Sort of Escherish. Perspective is there but it's not exactly right.

That's all for now. If I missed out anything feel free to add on. Or if I made a mistake somewhere, edit it.

animation references:
look under films in the site
God on our side
Bek
i couldn't find the downloads..
for the tevee scene, I tot we could render the tevees to look like paper.
with brush strokes for lines. something like the animations above. the bgs could have a cumpled paper effect for the sky..
like in some parts of this video. i know it looks emo-fied.
but i tot it looks really cool.

well because i think the tv scene is a place where it is halfway between reality and unreal. Its where RED could become GREY if she is not careful.
and i tot maybe we could inject some of escher's drawings into the BG.

Nizhen here. Some old concepts.

whoops sorry.
ros here



I thought the warped perspective thingie could bring some unreality into it. But i was unable to render what i felt.

Its unfinished. For red, i think we could use cloth texture for her clothes, and make her look as real as possible. and the greys could look like crumpled paper. well it could be too much since tevee scene i also want to paperfy.

GAHH.
some paintings for the attacking scene and when she drop into padded room.
hmm.apparently more practice is needed.
haha.
+[stella:D aka thegildsquaredpatch]+

Concepts

Timing Reels

At the moment there are 4 timing reels. The chosen song is "Over my Shoulder" by Mika.

Storyboard Artists: Syarah and Rosalind

Storyboard Cleanup: Theodora

Flash Animator: Stella

Editor: Ni Zhen

First reel. Done in February 2008.

Second Reel. Done in May 2008.

Same as the second reel but song used is "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven.

Third reel. No music this time. Done in June 2008.

Fourth and latest reel. No music as well. Done in July 2008.

After thinking it through, we've decided to cut the entire animation down to 2 minutes. Currently, we're redoing the boards, working on layout, colors and character designs. We'll post any updates.

"Story of I"

Our Final Year Project (FYP)

Concepts and progress will be posted up here. Feel free to comment and critic.

Team members are: Syarah Mahmood, Stella Ng, Rosalind Sam, Phang Ni Zhen and Theodora Hui.