The other side:The Animation

The outcome of the animation the other side.

The other side:Story development

During the development of the story, I added more details such as the reason why the character went into the screen, which is that the character's cat went into the screen and he went to chase it, that leads him into the other side of the screen. The question is what would happen in the computer in order to make their journey to the other side more interesting rather than just the character chasing his cat.

During the discussion, I made my mind on the cat has jumped into a game accidentally, and turned the character into the main character of the game who has to fight the dragon, while the cat itself is trapped by the dragon and the character went to rescue it.

The other side:Development

I started to make the final animation with these scenes, by using backgrounds drawn on paper and the character drawn in Photoshop and rendered the frames with timeline. I would use a different background for the world inside the computer screen which I am considering is a old styled computer screen.

The other side:Development

I made a few experiments on animation paper at first, considering the style of the outside world, I think using animation paper is a good choice to contrast with digital animation. The image here is the first scene of the animation, where the cat stood on the table and stares at the computer.

The other side:Storyboarding

I roughly planned the animation with the storyboard and had about 20 scenes, and each of them lasts more or less than 1 seconds. The two parts in two worlds each last for about half of the animation.

The other side:Character

I did a few concept drawing during the generation of ideas, for consideration of the character, due to the time management, I decided to use a simpler character rather than the first attempts. Therefore I had the final outcome of the following:

Minor alter might be applied when I came to the stage of making the final animation.

The other side:Initial ideas

When I was first generating ideas for this brief, I came up to several different ideas in the form of words, such as life and death, reality and dream, maze and parallel worlds. I summed then up and get to the two final ideas, which are life and death, internet and reality. 

Life and death 

Character is dead, then seen the other world, and came back to life and discovered that it was his dream.

Internet and reality

The world in the screen is the other side of the real world, which is the 2 dimensional world verses the 3 dimensional world. The cyber world becoming more and more like reality, and people are starting to get lost in the other side.

Bouncing ball

This is the bouncing ball practice for the preparation of the brief. I used key frame in this piece of practice, I key framed the ball when it hit the the ground and jumps to the highest point, and then fill the gaps with balls with consideration of timing and spacing.