Unit 2.1 Advanced and Experimental 3D Computer Animation Techniques – Project 1, project profile.
Name of Project:
Luna, A Fearful Puppy.
Medium: Short Animated Film.
Theme: Fear – noise phobia and new experiences when young.
Target Audience: Open to mass audience, but can appeal to younger audience between the ages of 5-13.
Duration: 1 minute.
Credits:
Animator: Michaela Brückner
Sound Design: By Michaela Brückner or sourced from ‘freesound’.
Made in London and Cambridge. In University of the Arts London.
Made with:
- Maya for the animation.
- Substance Painter and Photoshop for textures.
- Rendering with Arnold.
Project Narrative
Logline: “A scared puppy runs from a loud noise, it turns out to be nothing”.
Narrative plot: A few-month old puppy with noise phobia, called ‘Luna’, lives in the front yard of a rural residence. Moving apprehensively, she looks around the garden before considering leaving the safety of her dog house. Before she can move very far, a loud, unknown noise triggers her noise phobia. Frightened by this, she immediately runs to the main house and enters without looking back. After a brief pause, she looks through the door at the source of the noise, revealing that the noise came from the front gate swing open. Once again she can breath a sigh of relief.
Example Shot of Animation:
