Responsive Collab - P.O.A & Storyboarding

Time is going past at an alarming rate, as we all concurred in todays group meeting - in which we sat down and thrashed out a definitive plan of action for each of us to go away and work on over the development week. We'd come back next week to see where we stand, hopefully a bit clearer than we are at the moment! With all the other deadlines, and incoming work, progress on this project hasn't been able to really get going  - also due to the fact we had to wait around for responses to the kiddy questionnaires, that have also been a bit slow to hear back about. So much so that we've had to abandon that idea, even though we did receive some good material. It'd be a shame not to use it, so i'm looking into some other way to put drawings over the children's question answers in the future or as part of a personal project in order to keep my newly found After Effects knowledge fresh in my mind.



Based on the alternative approaches Joe & myself came up with in our 2 man meeting last week, involving the food cultures from various countries, we (the illustrators) designated ourselves a country each and jotted down a rough narrative for each one so we had a starting point for our storyboards. 




















As we wanted to draw big, colourful, interesting looking food we chose some of the countries that are well known for their culinary delights, and familiar with the majority of people. We then linked those countries to the 3 story archetypes we'd chosen;

QUEST - China,food markets - Chay

Rags to Riches - Paris, bakery - Tilly

Overcoming the Monster - America, diners - Ian

For preparation of my own storybaord about American diner food, i scribbled down the characters,themes and objects i would be trying to include. We'd decide on the initial narrative for 'overcoming the monster' which was basically the 'monster' being a mammoth plate of food, served in a traditional U.S diner where food challenges are common place.i just had create some imagery to fit inside 20seconds of animation time that will tell the story of this battle.

I'm really not a fan of sequential drawings and anything that involves me having to drawing the same character over and over  (I'm also not very good at it), and that kind of shows from my storyboards, as the main character looks different exert time you see him, so ill need to refine that - but i got the jist of my ideas whittled down into 9 frames. 

I sent it off to the group FB page so Joe could see what he might be dealing with, and wether i'd set my sights a bit high. With only just over 3 weeks left til submission i don't want to leave myself ,and more importantly, joe an sun surmountable amount of work to do in such a small amount of time. On a positive note, Joe also sent over his storyboard ideas for all 3 nations, and some of our story frames looked almost identical, which was a good sign that we're both on the same page!

Joe's storyboards for the 3 archetypes 

France

U.S.A

China