15 SecondIdeation and Concepts

Matthew, Paul, Natasha, Amy

Initial Ideas

First Concepts

Further Ideation

Research

Fig. 2 Home Sweet Home (2013) Fig.3 Close Encounters - communication (1977)

Fig.7. Rick and Morty “The Purge” (2014)

Fig.6. Pixar Lifted (2007)

Fig.1. Rick and Morty (2014)

Genre ResearchEarly Sci-fi Film Special Effects

UFO Stereotypes

Noir Film Tropes: gritty monologues, bleakness

and disillusion

Noir Effects Style: Low lighting, canted/Dutch

angles, heavy jazz music

Fig.4 Flash Gordon Rocket (1954)

Fig.3. Sin City (2005)Fig.9. Sin City (1991)Fig.8. Torpedo (1936)

4 Main IdeasTribes

Mothership/

Babyship

Clock Hands

Cave Monster

Two Ideas: Mothership and Babyship vs. Clock Hands

Storyboards

Storyboards Cont.

Character Designs

Comparison of IdeasMothership and Babyship:

+ve > relatable and funny. Like

pixar lamps.

-ve > Not as original as clock hands.

-ve > more elements to model

Clock Hands:

+ve > simple, funny and unexpected.

-ve >May be too simple. Character movement

restricted.

> Requires a complicated face rig.

Fig.10. Luxo Jr (1986)

Plans For Next Week

Decide on what idea we’re definitely going for

Final storyboards

2D Animatic and 3D pre-vis camera work with shapes

3D layouts of scenes

Modelling

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