This week, to further develop idea1, I started thinking about building the world of my story. Include scene setting and prop setting in it, and think about how these items will affect the character. And I should consider a very important content in the formation of this animation—the mood board, which uses color as the emotional tone of the story, and can also use this color to consider the environment and color of the subsequent story to affect the direction of the entire story.
- First, I learned what is worldbuilding.
- World building: The content required for the setting of the world view includes the era of the story background, if it is history, which stage of history is it, and what events affect the story. Or consider where the story exists, from the perspective of geographical location, which country it is in, what kind of style and architectural appearance it has, and so on. From a biological point of view, you can also analyze what kind of species live in your story, how these species will affect your world, whether it is a barren environment or a rich wild environment, etc.
- Secondly, I began to consider the relevance of the world building and prop design, as well as the importance of prop design.
- Prop Design: After creating the story and the background of the story, consider the props that might appear in the story. These props may be used in the scene to affect the advancement of the story, or to assist the background of the story. From the perspective of geographical environment and architectural style, props can be used for decoration.
- After understanding these contents, I will further add the world setting and prop design to my story.
Following last week’s script, I created a 2D storyboard.
2D Storyboard：
Plot：A homeless puppy was fed by a man heading home with geoceries. The puppy tried to look for the man door to door and finally found the find man’s house. Looking through the window, the puppy found out the man’s plan to adopt a Shiba Inu. Feeling hopless, the puppy crawled back to the carton boxes near the trash in the alley. Surprisingly, the man appeared at the end of the alley. He walked towards the puppt, bent down and had his hands out to the puppy.
Moodboard:
After deciding on the content of the story, I created the mood board. The story is set as a puppy living near a park near shops and residential areas, so it can easily deal with local residents who buy food, and in the case of following the residents, it finally finds its own home.
I personally prefer the style of two small towns. The first one is the style of small towns in Europe and the style of streets in Japan. I want to set the shops and parks close, and there are narrow roads, so that the story can be unfolded easily. So I tentatively choose one of these two as the place where the story takes place. Second, the story revolves around a sad stray puppy, so blue is set as the emotional tone. In the following pictures, I searched for a large Japanese-style street or a more traditional old European street town as an emotional version of the picture, as a reference for architectural style and color reference.
Finally, because the story has a warm ending. Choose classic orange as the mood for the second half of the story. Among them, in order to reflect the change of the puppy’s inner emotions through the environment, falling snow and orange flickering lights, dim and warmer street lights reflect this emotion, which forms a contrast with the previous blue and black street colors. Or, another kind of picture can be used to express this kind of mood, the street scene after the rain, the sunshine, and the lively and warm atmosphere formed under the shade of the street trees, which is a metaphor for the acceptance of the new family. The design of the emotional version is very useful for my story. I can imagine the development of the story in this environment, because the color can feel the change of the content of the story.