Delirious

Proposal analysis

As I started to analyze in detail my minor project proposal I realized that this idea would probably need more time and work that the one that is available, and though this is something I want to create when I have the opportunity to do so, it might have to wait to other time.

So from this decision I took, I have developed another idea that could be constricted in a smaller period of time allowing me to fully develop an animation containing an equally interesting theme.

This short animation is a monolog between a child with several Delusion of Greatness and a very dark inner self and the entire world represented by a small ant's colony.

REFERENCES AND INSPIRATION

The basic Idea for this animation came from a video of J. Robert Oppenheimer talking about the construction of the nuclear bomb and his participation in the Manhattan Project.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

And as I imagined this coming from a child with attitude and personality issues it seemed to me as an interesting idea.

Some how I relate this child attitudes as an negatively evolved Calvin, from 'Calvin and Hobbes' as in his selfishness and rudeness but also in his ability to imagine different scenarios that encourage his view of the world.

I recognize a different production by Tim Burton with some similarities with my idea and take it as a small reference to develop and give some potential to my animation. trying to assimilate some of the characteristics that make it so appealing and interesting such as 'an interesting look' and a very good script.

Since I want to use a dark and dim tone in most of my animation I decided to choose a dark palette that doesn't constrict to only black and white but also uses some tones of blue and bits of red/orange.

from the previous Idea I also would like to preserve the idea I had for the textures and details for they correspond to a style that I really would like to implement. this focus specially on the textures, the use of textures in the characters and the general look for my animation.


CHARACTERS

the characters involved in my animation are basically a child, the ants and his mum.

Lucas: he is a sensitive and very intelligent child, who creates alternative worlds in his imagination establishing an alternate reality with him as a self sufficient and superior being.

These are my first sketches.

These is my Final choice for Lucas

These are my plains for making the 3D model.

Ants:  they perform as the representation of the world in Lucas imagination. They are perceived as weak, unstable and worthless creatures shaped only as a diversion for a higher power to play with.

Mum: she doesn't perceive Lucas behavior as unnatural and doesn't try to over-Analise his activities. For her Lucas is just a disorganized child with a healthy imagination.

During the animation, I probably wont show the face of the mother, so facial gestures wont be  needed for this character.

These are the sketches I made for the mum, I decided to use the second.

These are the planes for the 3D Models