[YEAR 2] -- ANI2025M-Digital Layout and Character Animation -- Idea!!

Year 2!

-ANI2025M-Digital Layout and Character Animation-

Idea: 
The scene starts as rainy evening in the city.

The animation starts with 'Norman/the rig' coming out of a building or from walking down the street, either way he is holding a umbrella (and maybe a briefcase/bag), he is looking rather down since its been a hard day at work.

He is in a world of his own until he steps into a puddle and comes back into the moment. He looks down at the puddle he has stepped into. He pauses a moment and then taps his left foot again in the puddle, then repeats until a smile slowly appears on his face.

He then drops the umbrella (and extra item) and run and jumps into many puddles in front of him down the street until he reaches the last puddle.

He jumps into the last puddle and goes all the way through leading on to the next scene. 

Artist Inspiration/Research: 

Leonid Afremov

I found his work really beautiful in the way he has over emphasized the colours of the lights and how they bounce off the streets, trees and other object.

I think this look would be very hard to translate into Maya but the idea of warm and bright tones could easily be used in the lighting and design of the set for my character.  

 

Monet

I, again was attracted to Monet's use of warm tones that I would like to include for my scene but these are more 'realistic' compared to Afremov's pieces above.