Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Project 2 Part One: Journal Entries

I've selected scenario 3 to animate for Project 2.
Scenario 3 is about the robot busy stacking boxes. However, the conveyer doesn't wait for the robot to finish

Character

Give a name to your robot.

Imagine that while it is doing its mechanical work, the robot is actually thinking to itself. Write a brief paragraph of what the robot might be thinking – write the thoughts from the robot’s point of view, ie. imagine it is speaking the thoughts out loud, if it could.

The thoughts must be relevant to the scenario that you choose.

Note: these should be the robot’s thoughts before the inciting incident – not while it is reacting to the inciting incident.

The robot’s name is Stanley. “I’ve been doing this for years… This is really getting boring. I could have been a singer or dancer if I had more talent built in me. But I’m only equipped to do this. Think positively Stanley, think positively. Yeah, no one can stack up these boxes as quickly and neatly as me. I’m the best at this.

Conveyer belts starts to move faster.

“Woah, I’m actually becoming slower and slower. I’ll speed up and show my true ability of stacking boxes. Hey, hang on, it’s not me stacking them slower, it’s the conveyer belt malfunctioning again.”

            Stanley stacks the boxes faster and higher.

“Oh My God! I can’t handle this speed. Someone, please help me!”

            Stanley accidentally hits one of the boxes and the whole stack starts to fall off. One of the boxes flies off the conveyer belt and hits into Stanley.

”Watch out! Sigh* (shakes head) Why must this happen to me? I can’t even stack these boxes properly. Guess I’ll have to do the extra work of arranging them back again.

            Stanley sadly looks at the mess around him and starts picking up the boxes again.

STORYBOARD

Draw a storyboard of your animation before you start the actual animation work. This should be uploaded to your web journal by the end of Week 15 (ie. Aug 5).

Your storyboard should also highlight the key poses of the robot.



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