Taking an existing fairytale that will be provided to you in class, create our own, reinvented version of that fairytale. There are many, many retellings of the same story - Disney's Aladdin, for example, was inspired by Lotte Reineger's "Adventures of Prince Achmed". Frozen is based on Hans Christian Anderson's story "The Snow Queen." Many of Disney's films are based on Grimm Fairytales, and are much more 'Disnified' versions of the dark and gruesome stories that the Grimm Brothers originally constructed.
Some, such as Alice in Wonderland, have gone through many different variations.
You're going to be taking the fairytale given to you, and make any changes as you see fit to create your own version of the story. So long as the essence of the story remains intact, you're free to do as you wish. We're going to start off creating the story itself, through the use of storyboards so that you'll have the foundation to work with. After that, the project will focus on designing 3 of the characters. While it will be important to know on a fundamental level where your story takes place (what time period, what location), environment concepts, animatics, etc. will not be required for this project.
I will be grading this project on:
Aesthetic/Style: Do the characters look like they belong in the same world? Do their designs have appeal? This doesn't mean that every character has to look attractive, but do they seem interesting and show personality? Are their proportions consistent? Do we get a good idea of who they are? Or are they bland, generic and not well thought out? The sketches and final drawing of the character would be graded here.
Professionalism: How well is the information organized and presented? If I was a real client, would I take the work seriously, or would it feel sloppy and rushed? There is no 'technical' part of the grade, per se, but if there are technical issues such as pixilation, this is where the grade would be effected.
Research: This is where artist statements, mood board, references and explanations are vital, as the research portion of the grade will be based solely on that.
Upcoming Deadlines
Checkpoint 1: Due 9/9 - Bring 5 Ideas for your reinvented story
Checkpoint 2: Due 9/16 - Create Concept Storyboards
Checkpoint 3: Due 9/21 - Moodboards. Create a moodboard for the project as a whole, emphasizing the general feel you want your audience to have when they watch/read it. Also select three characters from your story and create moodboards for them.
Checkpoint 4: Due 9/23 - Collect References. At least 3 real world references (such as if your story takes place in 15th century France, have pictures of what the town layouts looked like there, or what people wore, architecture, what technology they had at the time, etc. as what is relevant for your story), and at least 3 style references. For the style reference, this is just what visual style you have in mind for the project. If the style is based on a famous historic art style (Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, etc.), then you can bring samples of art pieces, comic books, etc. that incorporate that style successfully. It could also be screenshots and concept art of other cartoons, comics, stories, etc. that have the style, or elements of that style, that you feel are similar to what you're thinking of.
Write a short analysis of each reference, and how it fits with your story. Also, make a note of any special challenges that the style, time period or anything else might have with your story. For example, if your characters are meant to travel far but the time period you've chosen doesn't have a good way for characters to get around easily, you can mention that.
Checkpoint 5: Due 9/28 - Speculative (Blue Sky) Sketches. Create 5 drawings of each of your three characters. Each drawing should be a very different take on the same character.
Checkpoint 6: Due 9/30 - Evolutionary (Refinement) Sketches. Choose your favorite of the character sketches for each characters, and block in the silhouette. Using the same silhouette, create 5 slightly different versions of the same design, using the same character.
Checkpoint 7: Due 10/5 - Choose your favorite evolutionary sketch for each of your three characters, and quick paint values onto them, in greyscale. Light each character in 5 different ways.
Checkpoint 8: Due 10/7 - Choose your favorite greyscale sketch for each of your three characters, and create 5 different color schemes for each one.
Checkpoint 9: Due 10/14 - Taking your favorite colors, values and final sketch of your character, create a turnaround of each of your three characters in Photoshop, fully detailed, rendered, lit and colored. Keep in mind proportions and volume.
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