Inspiration Explosion

So, we were given "The Brief"... Very open ended, very not what we were expect. How to continue hmmm....

We split up for a bit, then came back together and brainstormed, we wanted to see who was inspiring us for this animatics. Inspirations that bloomed where Chuck Jones styled humor, the Looney Toons slapstick animation. Something Geometic and simplified. Something minimalistic, do we want detailed backgrounds, detailed characters. How many characters, (eh, not more then 3 maybe), Is it gonna be themed? Fantasy styled, realistic, sci-fy? Tied to Reality, expressive faces. These were some random notes taken from our Idea Brainstorm. We watched some videos, and discussed if we had any Ideas. One that came up, was to base it on a character traveling and visiting places, similarly to what we were doing.

I'm trying to be sly.... Did it work?

Our character evolved to a dragon, who had very bad luck on his trip. Horrible plane food, crushed by rocks, large backpack that was twice his size. Things did not always flow well for him. This was the idea we ended on that first day of studio time. We got a good sense of our combined humor and the direction we wanted to go in. But we didn't solidify our idea of what our character was going to do. We established some time to brainstorm ideas and to come up with 3-4 different storylines to explore for the project. Then Emily got dragged into another of the Master Student's film projects. He was making a combined 3D modeled animation mixed with a Filmed short. They needed a female role and she was immediately up for the task. That day ended good.

 
Brianstorm, discuss, brainstorm, discuss repeat until success if found!

We traveled and explored the local area our first weekend. We'd had rain 5 days straight and Saturday finally lightened up. So we took advantage of that and didn't regroup until Tuesday, the 21st.

Emily working her scene in the hallway!