LAUAN 503 Character and Narrative - Week 1

Firstly, we individually rolled story dice in order to construct a narrative. My story dice rolled 1) an astronaut on the moon with a little flag 2)a satellite dish 3) a box. I constructed a story about a female astronaut who forgot to take her flag to the moon which was the chosen narrative in my group- I was made director off the back of that. After brainstorming ideas about style, character, medium and who will perform each role, we individually created primary research.
Decisions reached so far:

• Gabbi & Rhys' Roles : begin researching and designing character as an adult and a child on art boards
• My Role : background research and design, script 
• All : research and design the rocket, space logo and potentially a satellite
• Mediums : mix of digital 2D -AE, PS, TV Paint 

Decisions to develop:

• Storyboard
• Character design
• Sound/ music
• Style - this is the main one as we all have very different existing styles, meeting somewhere halfway or perhaps trying something completely new may be a feasible idea.

WWW- Good flow of ideas as a group, good sharing of roles, good initial research and ideas

EBI- Possibly work a bit faster as a group, push research further into initial sketches and small moving ideas.

MAYA

This week we also learned how to make pendulums on Maya. Overall, familiarising myself with the work space again was very useful and the final pendulum worked nicely too. This practice focused on easing and over lapping action.

WWW- familiarised myself, pendulum accurate, gained more confidence with software

EBI- Pushed the pendulum further and explored more of the principles of animation such as secondary motion.