This was a college project-we were tasked with creating "a moment" that moment of pure emotion, someone's first natural reaction.
I first tried doing my final project as a live action however I was met with a challenge, I couldn’t create an ad, because lack of resources-Camera, sound gear, and crew and the time, and so I came up with another idea-ANIMATION (!), to make that idea sound even more exciting I decided to create a stop frame animation, referenced from the popular stop frame animation done by KFC.
These are my first sketches of my main character, which i then proceeded to rig, for my stopframe animation.
story board
The supporting character (the father, coming in to the door) will be coming back from work, and he’s greeted by his son, not happy to see his dad but happy to see what the dad has brought for him from work, but the son is met with disappointment when the father shakes his head. The father then surprises the son with a coke and the son smile, making the father smile in the video for the first time.
So this is the final storyboard I got from all the changes I made to the GRUMPY MAN concept-what will end up happening on the stop frame animation is the exchange of smiles between the boy and the father, not centring the whole ad on the coke bottle but rather the connection between to the father and his son.
The only way to execute this successfully while still ending the element of warmth, is to create it by stop frame animation.
The only way to execute this successfully while still ending the element of warmth, is to create it by stop frame animation.
