National Garden Wildlife week.
After watching Sarah Beth's tutorial on planning, I used this process to do a personal project based on the UK's National Wildlife week. It was a wonderful opportunity to do something based around gardens and focus on those little creatures that live in your garden or in the forests.
I started with a mood board and collected references.
Here, I researched lots of photos of nice gardens, animals and tools.
My mind map was done on paper and I seem to have lost it in a pile of papers, sorry.
Next, I looked into style references. I wanted to explore some new techniques in 3D and play around with vegetation (plants and trees)
I looked into colours:
Next, I did a few really rough storyboard ideas. This is the part where I wished I had spent more time on as I found myself getting a bit lost with the core part of the story. Scribbling your ideas first is a good way to start.
I drew a few simple doodles of the assets I needed to create in 3D and a visual style reference.
Next, I started to develop some style frames and play around with the light, textures and how everything would be positioned.
I had a few cut frames where I showed close-ups of the bee coming close to the flower.
and the wellington boots eyes getting bigger with excitement.
Here's the final animation.
Some points that I would do next time really follow the process of doing the mind map, colour blocking and more research into references. I loved how Sarah did message to her client and I will definitely use this. Thanks again.
