This week, once I had decided on a theme, I was able to create a framework for the rest of my work. Although it was ostensibly a restriction on my work, in fact, it was easier to create a clear and coherent plot when we had a fixed theme to work with than when we had no idea what to do.
Of course the first step is still to go for references rather than creating blindly. Of course, unless our imagination has built a perfect story as well as a world in our mind, we still need references before building the story, otherwise the story will lack credibility. The credibility of a good short film story is very important, otherwise the sky is the limit and it will be felt as a headache, making people feel very off-beat.
The above are a few more steps I have taken on the internet to find western animated shorts. In addition to the common phenomenon of the western cowboy as the main protagonist, another point is that the protagonist generally has a cooler personality trait, or even stronger tension, even using a cowboy’s pistol, so as to highlight the western theme. Of course, the subject we are creating is a funny animated short, so I think we can make the protagonist serious and funny at the same time, creating a big contrast to enrich the character and make the story interesting. I had an idea that I could do something like the Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes animations that we used to watch, where the conflict between the two characters creates a contrast that makes the story funny and interesting. After thinking about it I decided to use a chameleon in a small western town. Chameleons generally live in the tropical woods and are less often found in the mountains, this rare attribute would also make the story interesting and importantly the chameleon character model is very good looking.
I decided on the character and the theme, and then I started to set up the plot. My plot is that in a small town in the west, a cowboy is taking a break. Unexpectedly, a chameleon is disturbed. The cowboy is curious about this thing at first, but thinks about it again. To prevent him from resting, he planned to throw it away. As a result, the chameleon quickly ran back to take up his chair. The cowboy couldn’t catch it behind the cowboy. He finally killed it with his proud pistol. Lie down and rested happily. The final ending is that he thought it was dead, but he jumped out of his hat when he was still okay, scared the male lead, and then it was over. The following is a storyboard based on this story. Draw, and further improve the plot.
It may seem that the picture is particularly abstract now, but at least I have a picture and an impression in my head, after all, it is not ultimately presented as a two-dimensional digital animation, so there is no need to make special deductions on the storyboard, the two most important points are the approximate stand and the camera picture on the line, but of course the storyboard is only a reference, not all will be copied without change, there will still be an increase in the deletion of the picture, the following will begin to build the model and prepare for the animation The following will be the start of the model building and preparation for the animation stage.