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Boy and beast
Individual Animation
4’03’’
Director /scriptwriting /storyboard,/art design /scene drawing /2D animating
digital compositing /sound effect.
introduce
Boy and Beast is my graduation design and individual work.
It’s also the first animation I did. This is a 2D steampunk animated short film that I have always wanted to do.In this animation。
The Story is about a little beast who got deeply injured from human meets a kind human boy. Because of the terrible experience, the little beast became too sensitive and he attacked the little boy. After the beast understood the human boy just wanted to help him, he came back to found the little boy and they became friends finally.
By this story,I want to tell that people always like to hide their scars and weakness as we are afraid of being harmed. Ultimately, we cannot believe anyone. Being used to regarding others as bad, we just like cactuses to carefully protect ourselves,sensitiveand
sharp-pointed. Invisibly, we have harmed those who care for us and let them disappointed.
Animation screenshots
storyboard
character
design
prop design
this equipment is a Launcher, It can launch the packed umbrella - lantern to the beast`s injured tail. after that,It will emit substance that can heal the beast`s wound and recover beast tail. after the packed installation settled, the packed installation will unfold the umbrella - lantern and make it became a part of beast tail.
scene design
As to the scene design, I initially refer to the waste yard in reality and the dust heap in the film WALL·E. However, it will be outstanding to make the real waste yard full of metals and machines into 3D animation while it is ordinary to make it into 2D animation. Thus, I choose to deviate from the reality and create an obsolete, dreamlike and fanciful scene. I take an example by Antoni Gaudi i Cornet’s architectures and the obsolete amusement park, and bravely add the elements of sky wheel, cable car, whirligig and children’s slide with the supplement of big vacuum cube, aircraft wreckage, mechanical arms scaffold and other science fiction elements. This combination obtains accidental success.
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