The story.

Animation is amazing and fun, I mean if you can draw it then you can bring it to life and that is an amazing and beautiful thing. I absolutely love it and I feel like I am growing attached to my characters as I have drawn and worked with them for so long already and I’m not even half way yet!

For an Animation to have a heart and soul there must be a story. And a good one, the better the story the better the whole film will be. I love stories and enjoy making people feel through a story, ever since I was little I would make up my own stories and characters.

During Pre production we had to obviously come up with a story for our final animation piece. Now this is easier said than done, as we are limited to how long our animation piece can be depending on how many animators are working on the final. For me I am working alone and there for had to try and make the story short, and that’s not easy for me as my ideas tend to be bigger then what I have to work with. So working on the final story for this animation took some time. And as always I had (and still do) a billion stories running through my head. I had ideas for teddy bears, love stories and so forth.

Firstly I decided what media to work in and from the beginning I wanted to work with three main medias, 2D hand drawn animation, stop start paper animation and stop start claymation. I came down to the story of a very rich man who was not happy and went on a journey to find happiness and ends up falling in love after he gives to the poor. That idea was too big, so the idea was shared and tossed and turned around until the final story came, the journey of Emily. Quite a jump from a rich man to a poor homeless girl. But the story still holds the same message, giving is true happiness.  

I originally planned for there to be a forth world, a chalk world, but that would have been too much for a 14week animation piece that is being done by one person. In the end though I am happy with the story.

 In the beginning I felt it still might be a bit too much to try and achieve, but I am loving every moment, even though there are many setbacks which is understandable for an animation I am enjoying the challenge. So far so good. :)