Character and Narrative - Week 4

This week I made no progress on the animation, but have chosen a character design, and begun collecting images of maps and road signs for reference and use in the montage sections.

Character and Narrative - Week 3

This week I thumbnailed the story, and began making storyboards. Thinking about the timing of the animation I feel like in order to show the buildup of stress that the driver goes through I will paradoxically have to show less and less of the things that drive him mad in order to allow myself more screentime for the driver himself. Because of this I have scrapped some of my planned montage elements, and will limit the use of the map images to the screen of the SatNav and only use the roadsigns in the visual bombardment the driver undergoes. I have made no progress this week on the actual animating.

Here are some initial development scribbles.

Character and Narrative - Week 2

This week I settled on a story for my Road to Nowhere animation - it involves a driver whose SatNav breaks, and he struggles to navigate a spaghetti junction style motorway by reading the road signs. The majority of the animation will be black and white traditional hand drawn style, potentially with some limited use of textures. This will make the introduction of brightly coloured road signs and scans of a variety of road maps during the montage sections look even more jarring.

Character and Narrative - Week 1

For my character and narrative I have picked the title "Road to Nowhere', as I really like the visual quality of maps and road signs. I plan to use lots of map imagery in whatever I decide on for my storyline, potentially using montages of different types of maps.

Telling tales -- OUAN504

My first idea for the 30 second Telling Tales animation is for the title "Road To Nowhere". My character will be a driver who is lost and disoriented by a variety of incomprehensible and contradictory road signs. I want to use a mixture of cutout, collage and drawn animation - the character of the driver, his car, and some scenery like roundabouts and background elements will be hand-drawn, whilst the roadsigns which flash in front of his eyes will be handmade, scanned and superimposed using After Effects.

Potentially this video could be looped as the driver never reaches his destination.