Category: 3.1.2 Final Major Project

The next step is the re-determination of the story shots. Because I changed the characters, some of my animations and shots need to be changed.

On the storyboard, I think the characteristics of harlow as a fairy are: small, smart, and light. The character itself will also highlight the character’s personality, here I refer to the movie: Tinkerbell, which is a series of films with fairys as the protagonist, which provides me with a lot of support.

In the movie, no matter what the character of fairies is, their bodies are very dexterous, so I designed two entrance animations, the content of Harlow playing in the forest and flowers, so as to highlight the character’s personality at the very beginning and set the atmosphere and tone of the whole animation.

This is the storyboard that I modified according to my idea, and you can see that the overall main line of the story has not changed.

My final major project is an adaptation and continuation of the layout I developed for my Term 2 work. I’ve extended the story concept, changing the treasure hunt into the girl accidentally discovering a shiny, glowing ball, while keeping most of the original shots.

One of the key changes I made was swapping the girl’s character from from Alpha by Agora Community (https://agora.community/content/alpha-maya) to Harlow by Built By Colossus (https://builtbycolossus.com/harlow)

There are several reasons for this change: Firstly, based on my personal preferences, I want the style of my work to be cute, bright, and heartwarming, and I believe Harlow helps me achieve this vision better. Secondly, Harlow offers more possibilities for facial expression, which allows me to make the character more lively.

Since my goal is to focus on cartoonish and dynamic character animation, I chose to use an existing rigged character rather than modelling and rigging by myself. I believe this approach gives me more time to focus on polish my animation.

The story is telling about a little fairy found a toy ball in the forest. Curious, she wanted to take it back, but was caught by the toy’s owner—a cat. The fairy thought she might be killed by the cat, but the cat just wanted to play with her. After that, they became friends.