Metamorphosis

Thoughts and ideas

What do i want in my story that would incorporate a metamorphosis?

 Changing body

Changing into a different being.

• Is it an object or another animal
• Is it a real creature/mythical/made up
• What are the characteristics of said object/animal (How does it move)

Is the transformation slow or fast?

• Will the change be painful and gruesome?
• Or will it be sudden and unexpected?
• Will some parts be faster than others and if so how will it be shown. Will it make sense?

What objects and animals are interesting to transform into?

• Spiders, Easily scary on their own adding the gruesome of a human turning into one would be even more frightening.
• Crow, Sparrows, Pigeons, all are different and present themselves differently through their movements, how they fly and how they interact with items.
• Bugs/insects, there’s such variety with insects that it would be fun testing out ideas with them. Will my character grow wings? How many legs will they have? What about teeth?

Changing mind

Will it be an internal struggle?

• How will I show off their mood?
• Their stance, how they walk, how they dress?

Is it something out of the characters control?

• Are they being bullied, mental illness, depression
• Has someone in their life died and they try to overcome the tragedy?
• Has it got to do with Love? Falling in love but getting rejected
• How will I show the emotional pain?

Environment

Location change

• Will it take place on land, sea, space, nowhere?
• Will it link to my story? If my character changes into an animal will that animal be able to survive where it appears?
• How will I change the scene to show a change in the environment
• Do I need to change the environment?

 

Mood Board 

Story Boards

 

 

Two Synopsis

 First Synopsis

I want to be able to turn a human looking figure into an animal/object (haven’t finalised what it will be yet) But the main Point I want to get across is how Painful the transformation would actually Feel like. Things like how bones would bend, snap and crack while being moved. How the skin would stretch, peel off the new body, or would it start spreading fur.  This is hopefully going to end with the creature moving around the environment giving it freedom to wreak havoc within the animation.

Second Synopsis

I want to try and show emotions through masks. When we went to the Oxford museum I got the idea from looking at the mask exhibit they had. Each having their own value and impact.
Using masks seem interesting to me since they don’t really show emotion.

Final Synopsis

I have settled on using the second idea because this gives me more variety of ideas to work with.
My idea is to create a blob creature that shows its emotion through a mask.
This would be useful to us since the blob wouldn’t show any emotion, only the mask would represent what the blob is thinking.

 

Final Video

Thoughts?

I had the best time with this animation.
I enjoy coming up with stories and using the idea Metamorphosis to create a story from that initial idea was something i love to do.
I went above and beyond with creating not one but 2 initial ideas.
Having the freedom to not just stick to one script and to experiment with my other thoughts and  idea was enjoyable.

What would i improve?

If i had to i would really love to clean some of the line work, just to make it look more professional. id also would have likes some more time with colouring my creation. I managed to get the animation down but adding the colour to my creature was the only thing i wished i could have done.