In this blog post, I am going to come up with three story ideas for my animated short, based on the character bio I came up with in last session.
a Flour Sack named Eddie Flourerro, who is an aggressive 27 year old from the big apple. He is currently cooking but works full time as a plumber, Eddie is very good at Jumping. This helps transition himself from a plumber to his dream of being a professional wrestler!
Idea 1:
Location: At Home
Time Period: 2003
Beginning
Eddie is at home, cooking up his breakfast which is eggs that can grow. Eddie likes to jump when he’s making his breakfast so he is also jumping up and down whilst this is happening, Eddie’s egg falls onto the floor but doesn’t crack, it actually becomes squishy and trampoline like (Showing off a couple of Animation Principles). Eddie has a TV on in the background and its showing a wrestling advert.
Middle
Eddie has always been a fan of wrestling, working as a plumber, work has dried up in New York so he goes for a walk to clear his head and think what he could do next, as he is walking down the street, he sees a poster for a local wrestling firm wanting to do tryouts.
End
Eddie starts fantasizing about being the best wrestler there is and dreams of winning title gold before snapping back to reality.
Idea 1: Revised – 28/01/21
Location: At Home
Time Period: 2003
Beginning
Eddie is at home, sitting on the sofa watching the wrestling on Television.
Middle
Eddie starts to practice wrestling moves jumping around living room and elbow dropping the sofa.
End
There is a TV advert for wrestling tryouts and Eddie starts fantasizing about being the best wrestler there is and dreams of winning title gold before snapping back to reality.
Idea 2:
Location: At Home
Time Period: Present Day
Beginning
Eddie is at home preparing for another days work as a plumber, currently cooking his breakfast. He gets a call from a client who’s boiler has broken down, he gets ready to leave.
Middle
Eddie is on his way to the clients house via his favourite transport method. Jumping. As he’s jumping down the street to the clients house, he jumps over the gate and towards the front door. He presses the doorbell and his client answers the door. His client is none other than 5 TIME, 5 TIME, 5 TIME, 5 TIME, 5 TIME! FCW Champion Flour T.
End
Eddie talks to Flour T about becoming a FCW wrestler and seeing if he get into try outs, Flour T wants Eddie to show him a signature move so he does the 5 Star Flour Splash in Flour T’s home wrestling ring. Scene ends with a Poster of Eddie Flourrero on a poster for Flour Championship Wrestling.
Idea 3:
Location: At Home
Time Period: Present Day
Beginning
Eddie decides to have a wrestling themed party for him and his friends to watch the Royal Flourumble. He starts preparing by setting up a wrestling ring.
Middle
Its a couple of hours away until Eddie’s friends arrive so he starts to prepare and cook food for the said party.
End
Eddie’s friends arrive and they do their annual Royal Flourumble match between themselves to decide who sits in the best seat, Eddie wins the match.
Personally I am going to go with Idea 1 for my story idea, I feel like this story offers a lot of variation and a chance to showcase many animation principles. It also allows me to express my creativity more that the other two ideas. With Idea 3, its all in the same place and the same scene can get boring quickly plus there will be 3 or 4 other rigs to animate. In Idea 2, its an idea that would only work if there was voice acting at some point in the idea, with idea 1, I can take it as far as I want to without having to worry about any of those issues.
Moodboard
This is my moodboard for my idea, it shows the assets I will need to make in a low poly environment. In total, there will be 3 scene switches, one in the house, one in the street and one in a day dream, so will need to incorporate all of these ideas into those three scenes.
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