Interactive Character Profile: A Cape for My Mother Meet & Greet
A strong guide for my senior thesis project is based on a story that I write. The story is about a young coding genius who is very smart but is smart-mouthed, a slacker, often the target of bullying at his job. While trying to meet his employers’ demands, after hearing the news of his biological mother’s untimely death. Going through the five stages of grief as an adult he will rediscover a red blanket that becomes the symbol that makes or breaks his career and redefines the season of giving during one the most stressful times of the year, Christmas time.
Plan
- Write a story children’s book 16 pages to get a better understanding of where the story is going started
- List personality traits that correspond to each character. started
- Create character sheets of thumbnails and rough sketches of characters and settings.
- Storyboard animation for 2D scenes and looping gesture, Define Character, and Setting Designs in Grayscale and Color, Transfer to Digital Drawing platforms Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Procreate.
- Begin Modelling in Maya
- Well-Defined Character and Setting Design in Maya. (includes character placement within the scene, lighting, and color correction, etc)
- Rigging and Animating Characters within the scene.
- Composite all characters into their respective backgrounds/settings and have models be able to be turned 360 degrees and interact with the audience by waving “hello” pointing to their profile name in order to have the audience click on a button that takes them their profile.
- Present work on a coded website.
- Possible tabs for personality profile: 3D Model, Who am I? (description of personality traits), Role in the Story (listed description), Concept Art, and My Design Process in snapshots from Thumbnails to Final.