Developing my Storyboard and Animatic

I took the advice of my tutor and improved my proposal and developed it into an animatic to demonstrate my plans more effectively.

Once I viewed my animatic I realised improvements I needed to make immediately. The introduction part seemed to take up a lot more time than the main part with the man and the woman. Therefore I decided to cut down the time spent watching the man walking towards the button and extend the time with the man and woman. This would then delay the time before the laughing giving it more effect.

The man would experience a few more emotions while in his situation: Excitement at getting something for free, Inquisitiveness showing he knows something is not right, Frustration/ anger leading into disappointment, finally ending up embarrassed.

I will add more emphasis onto the part where he is about to press the button as he has the dilemma between right and wrong. The environments will remain quite plain and simple to enable the location to remain mysterious.

Finally, I am working on a stronger message to appear on the screen at the end, ‘Don’t Compromise on Quality, Always Get The Real Thing’ is a possibility.

Simulated Client Project

Final Year starts and I’m straight into a short project. The brief is to ‘Produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy’.  I researched various areas of Digital Piracy that I found interesting and started to decide whether I wanted to be for or against piracy. I came up with a few different ways to solve the brief but didn’t really like any of them. I found it quite difficult to come with an idea I liked so quickly. However, I then developed a new idea that I thought would be effective and that I could put my skills to good use. Here is my inital proposal.

More Floor Plans for Airport

These are some developed floor plans deciding on the layout of my airport/ hotel. I have decided on the most important aspects to include and laid these out appropriately. I want quite a spacious feel in my airport so I’m trying not to squash too much into each room. I will develop these further by creating floor plans in Adobe Illustrator and decide on scale whilst making them so I can start to build upon these to create my model.

I may have the same shape building as below around the other side of the mountain for check in and check out to have seperate sections, therefore it won’t get confusing with people arriving and leaving for the planes.

I have been working on a layout for my hotel lobby. I want it very spacious with just a check in desk. There will be a nice lounge area with some art scultpures around. I have decided to have a grand staircase which will open up the second floor of the hotel as well creating a much more airy feel.

The second floor of the hotel will have the rooms in but I want to be able to keep it spacious and minimalistic like the rest of the airport. I struggled with the drawing below so I have decided to attach the rooms to the outside of the shape and have them as pod-like shapes sticking out the side of the building as you can see in the last drawing.

Furniture and Interior Ideas for Airport

I want the furniture and interior of my airport to be very surreal and unusual. I will take inspiration from artists to design interesting features whilst still keeping the classic and beautiful feel I am going for. I will be using Dali and Magritte for inspiration for the furniture.


I am planning to create a lift which looks like a tux. The arms will be animated and open the tux to reveal the inside of the lift, instead of having usual doors.
I want to include a number of old fashioned items as furniture and in the restrooms I want to have the mirrors as monocles.

Initial Floor Plan Ideas for Airport/Hotel

My airport will contain a number of entertainment activities as it will be a holiday destination within itself. There will be a large building for the airport, one for hotel and three smaller buildings with a range of activities in. Here are my initial floor plan ideas and sketches.

Airport on a Mountain

My airport will be situated on the top of a snowy mountain in the middle of nowhere. People will visit this airport and stay in it’s hotel to experience the incredible views from the glass walls.

Tea Bag Character

Moodboards for Animation

Moodboards for Airport

Initial Ideas for airport is to produce a really surreal experience. I want it to look like an art gallery and have a very elegant yet unusual feel to the buildings. My airport will be set on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere so I want to create a place which is to be visited and has it’s very own airport. I am going to try out some tutorials on creating snow as I think I want the mountain to be snowy. My idea is to create a destination in an extremely unusual location. The buildings will be powered by natural energy sources and it will be environmentally friendly with solar panels etc.

Storyboard

Here is my hand drawn storyboard outlining the basic story and some camera direction. I will follow this quite closely when creating my animation and may even break some bits down a bit further in order to plan out the actions clearer for me to animate in 3ds max.