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Pikatti - Initial Influence Maps

Research - Foxes

While we were developing our story idea, we were debating about what animal should interact with the boy. In the end, we chose a fox because they are often symbols for stealth and mischief which would go with our genre and our story idea in general. Knowing there were many different types of foxes, we decided to do some research to see how it may affect our story's character and environment.

As mentioned above, the type of fox can alter the entire animation. Foxes are also prominent figures in mythology, which opened the idea up to the fox possibly being more than just a fox (a spirit?)

So far we are pretty fond of the idea of a snow fox, as it has excellent camouflage, is stealthy, is a scavenger (hence why it'd go after the little boy's food in our story), and other characteristics that compliment our story. We also thought the idea of a little Eskimo boy in the forest would be interesting to explore and develop. We are also thinking about combining different elements from different foxes to make the designs more unique...for example, giving the Snow Fox big ears like the Fennec Fox.

Story Idea - Pikatti

Narrative Development

Since last Tuesday's 'Story Workshop' we've been hard at work with ideation pertaining to the narrative of our animation. Detailed below is the process of breaking down just one of the possible ideas related to our conflict and end sentence. 

And further to that, here's a peek at the story map surrounding some of the ideas generated here.

Initial Influence Map

The Narrative Project Begins - The End Sentence, The Conflict, and Adopting Roles

Year Two has officially begun and we have been briefed on our new projects. For our Narrative project, each group was given an ending sentence and a conflict for a 90 second animation...our genres are to be revealed next week.

Our conflict is 'Man vs Time' and our sentence is "Nevertheless they soon came to understand each other." We have also divided out the different roles for the project. We believe that this is a good set up based on our individual skills.

We have yet to decide who is going to be the Researcher because we initially felt like we'd all be researching different things so we need to still think about that one. We also decided that it'd be a good idea to set up a studio Twitter page and Youtube channel so we can share our work on that alongside our individual accounts.