Project 1, due next week

Project 1 – Story,Visual Research and concept art - 10% of final grade- due week 2

Story:
Create a story that you will tell through animation. This story will become the project you work on for the duration of the semester in both CA500 and CA505. Pick something you will enjoy working on, but keep it simple - your total animation time should be 0:30 - 1:00 (30 seconds to 1 minute). 

The story should have at least one character. Good stories are about characters solving problems. 

Visual Research: 
Find 20 - 30 images that you think will inspire the look of your short film, and post them on your blog. 

Keeping the look and style of your film simple will benefit you tremendously through production.

Concept Art:
Create 10+ conceptual sketches of the characters, props and sets of your short film. This should be a fun exercise, and it should be focused on exploration of style, form, etc. 


One of the sketches should be a model sheet, which is a front and side view of your character(s) standing in a symmetrical pose. We will bring this sketch into Maya and model on top of it in CA505.. 

Model sheet images