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Storyboarding

 Poster criticism -Adjust the color of the logline, its hard to read. Maybe making the color a green to contrast with the brown. -The rating should be a little smaller and maybe the color should be adjusted as the red is a bit to much. When I get home after class I will adjust these in my poster. Homework Storyboard 12 key shots of script.

Logline and project planning

 Creating a Logline  A logline is a brief summary of the story that hooks in the reader and describes the central conflict with the story. Below is a logline that I cam up with for the game I will be creating artwork for in my digital project. On the cusp of death Eva is saved by a mysterious stranger she finds herself entering a conspiracy she never wanted to be apart off. I think this logline describes the game perfectly and the events leading up to the conflict, it clearly states the main character and hints that they are getting tangled up in something conspiratorial whether that be political, social or a physical the viewer is engaged to find out. Planning and character Bios/Locations The two characters I will be creating are Eva and the stranger who saves Eva from a demon. While Evas name is known the strangers will remain unknown. The locations I will be creating are the interior of the academy where Eva lives and studies, the outside of the academy and the interior cit...

Cover Art

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  Below are some of the thumbnail sketches I've done deciding on what I want my poster to look like. When designing my poster I thought about what kind of message am I sending with my Animatic? Who are the characters? and what I can do to create some tension and intrigue, that when someone sees this poster they're gonna be interested and engaged.  When looking at a lot of posters and cover art for comics, video games and movies just feature the character in an action pose or particularly with comics the character might be doing something within a scene or the artwork might be heavily stylized in comparison to the actual art within the comic.  Within my designs I wanted to showcase what the story is and what its about and the character so within these thumbnail sketches I choose to to further develop and add some color to and refine a bit more. The first one was just a basic cover of the character sitting a very traditional cover for a cover/poster. Within the poster it sh...

Finalizing Proposal

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 The Digital proposal is due this Friday at 5:00pm. Today I began finalizing my proposal in photoshop to make it look pretty and appealing. I still have some small cosmetic details to add such as adding in some of my style tests and images on the pages so people have a visual to look to when they're reading all the information. Below are some example of what the proposal will look like. Some of the pages look quite empty so I will be adding images to make it more interesting.

Scriptwriting

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 1. Explore genre styles and the structure of short film plots Continue developing your story from Step Outline to formatted script 2. Assess standard screenwriting and storyboarding formats Learn to use Celtx software for screenwriting I've never written a script before so this whole process is very new to me however I felt that the format of my step outline made things a lot easier when formatting it into Celtx, the software we are using to create our scripts. At this stage I think I've completed my script however I may need to fix up some small aspects such as grammar and maybe let other people have a read through to see how it reads without just me looking at it.  Once I've finished the script I might need to think about shortening some parts as at this point it might run just under 2 minutes which is to long for a 1 minute animation so I will try to aim for around 1:20 anything above 1:30 is way to over the time.

Step Outline

 Identified the main character/protagonist  ✔️ Identified the ‘conflict’ that the protagonist must overcome ✔️ Identified how they change/their character’s arc ✔️ identified the 3 acts of your story ✔️ You wrote a brief outline of the story ✔️ Main Character Eva is the main protagonist. Awarini is the side character. Characters arc Eva begins the story as cocky with a sense of grandeur, that her skill is superior than that of all her classmates and even her master. Awarini her master give her a reality check by brutally defeating her and berating Eva for her inflated ego telling her that if she must take her training seriously as if she was to confront  a demon she would surely be killed. Eva has never seen her master act like this before which makes her take things a little seriously. Conflict Character  vs Character - The physical conflict in the story is the fight between Eva and Awarini. As Eva tries to prove herself as an equal to her ma...

Digital proposal Draft

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 1 min 2D Animated cutscene Sources mood board - Dragon Crown - character - location -Dragon Nest  -DMC 1 concept art -DMC 3 concept art -DMC 5 -Weapon concept art -Attack on titan - Locations Video game, RPG Beat 'em up.  Title: Children of Lilith Pitch Choice and Concept I will be pitching a 1 minute 2D animated cutscene, within the cutscene the main protagonist  Eva will encounter the stranger a rogue with ambiguous motives who saves her from getting killed by a demon. The story takes place within a contemporary fantasy world, which combines the medieval fantasy architecture, technology  and styling with that of the 21st century (not to be confused with steampunk which combines 19th century industrial with modern day). The game fits into the genre of an RPG beat 'em up, similar to that of Dragons Crown and Final Fight, however throughout the game the player will gather more characters for there party, with each character pro...