Weekly Blog Post 5

 This week I worked on my characters and paid more attention to the anatomy of dinosaurs. I also worked on the story.

T-Rex

Baby Bird

The story is about a baby bird dinosaur that falls out of his nest when he practices flapping his wings. He falls out of the tree and tries to climb back up but is too weak. He waits at the trunk of the tree calling out for his mother. Dangerous animals nearby hear his cries and start to get closer. He notices them and believes them to be friendly until they bare their teeth and try to eat him. He runs away from the nest to escape the predators. He hides in an old log or small hole in the ground as the creatures run past. Now lost, he asks a brachiosaurus (long neck dinosaur) to help him find his tree but he quickly realizes the trees in this jungle all look the same from the top. He asks for more help but the dinosaur does not think he will make it back home. The brachiosaurus tells him to ask someone else for help. The baby bird is scared of asking someone else since they could eat him in one bite. He goes back into the log to wait and see if any bird-like dinosaurs will help him. The next day, a T-rex is attacked by a group of Archaeopteryx. He goes to yell for help and then they notice him. He knows they are the same species and he thinks they will be friendly. However, they could easily eat him since he is a baby. The group leaves the T-rex to target the baby bird and the T-rex quickly steps into action and scares away the group of bird-like dinosaurs. After saving his life, the baby bird trusts the T-rex. He hops onto the T-rex's snout and asks for help to find his way home. A friendly T-Rex helps him find his way home and the mother bird thanks him.

I also had a friend call me recently to ask if I could animate their audio. I hope to add this to my portfolio since I want to work on character animation and lip-syncing. I do want to focus more on storyboards so I will try to incorporate that into the process as I move from the reference and audio my friend gives me to thumbnails/storyboards to 3D blocking to 3D animation. With my friend creating the audio, I will not have to worry about thinking of a story.