Reference_Art_Charley Harper_ and_Sketches

I was thinking more like flat-graphic style like Charley Harper illustration-

Lab experiment?? I was thinking of flat graphic- maybe paper cut out style?

Lastly, super helpful caterpillar reference website:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/caterpillar-identification-chart.html

Just more ideas

For shits

POP!

sylvain marc

Heres some sketches I did in the sylvain marc style.

Thought it would be a fun style to go for.

check out his stuff here: http://polyminthe.blogspot.com/

Some Caterpillars

Hey guys i did some simple designs for the little caterpillar just to get the juices flowing.

An update to the old post, some mutant ones as well! 

New Boards by Matt

The Monster Caterpillar

After the meeting today I started to feel like we were making a 1950s monster movie, haha. I dunno if anyone would want to play that up, but I wouldn't be against it. I was also reminded today of a piece I heard on NPR this summer where the guest, and author of the book "Eat a Bug", David George Gordon argued that insects could be the food of the future. Lauren, you may not want to click the link, some the pics are sorta gross. haha. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/17/203001025/these-pictures-might-tempt-you-to-eat-bugs

Style and Refrence

Here are some ideas on an animation style.

Also, there are some really terrifying caterpillars. YEEESH.

animation style

this might be a cool direction to go in...

link

New Pitch

Here is the latest pitch, a work in progress.

A bioengineer has been hard at work in her lab, trying to create a formula to help create a sustainable food supply to feed the hungry throngs of humanity. She is growing a crop of tomatoes in an attached outdoor garden. We see her sprinkle her tomatoes with a chemical that we see is labeled something like "EXPANDIFYING GROW #218". She leaves the garden, and just as she does, we see the silhouette of a fat little caterpillar crawling out from a leaf on her plants, and he starts to nibble excitedly on a tasty bit. The next day, she comes out to her garden, and is at first delighted because we see her tomatoes are huge, each as big as a pumpkin. But then, her expression quickly changes to horror when we cut wide and it is revealed that there is a giant monster caterpillar that rises up from its leafy depths, uttering a loud screech (kind of like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4UO9CS8SM) .. She is terrified, and knocks over a large metal drum labeled "EXPANDIFYING TEST WASTE" towards the beast. The beast is knocked over, but then the drum begins spilling a thick gurgling paste everywhere. The caterpillar appraises the goop for a moment, but then begins lapping up the waste. Suddenly, after disgust and shock, we see the scientist get an idea. We cut to a shot of caterpillar beasts being harvested as a delicious burgers, served nicely with a side of tomatoes.


Not sure if the toxic waste element is being incorporated as smoothly as it can be, or if that element makes the story too long/complicated. Not thinking its working too well as of now since making burgers out of a caterpillar that has eaten toxic waste does not seem like a good idea. Have at it with any suggestions on how to tweak it.

This is sort of the bare bones pitch, we can definitely word it better to make the scientist and caterpillar more appealing and relatable I think. It just too late for my brain to do that at the moment.

Talk to you guys soon!

Megan
http://www.hughsmith.org/images/caterpillars/2009-09-02-Yuba%20City-004-Tomato%20Hornworm.JPG

TED it.

TED talks = Ideas

http://www.ted.com/topics

shorter version of pitch

External: day: futuristic university campus

Young engineering student arrives home from a day of class. Hover board turns into smart-cube

Enter apartment:

micro apartment space comes alive. Revealing many tiny cubes!

We see books from every subject, (engineering, organic chemistry, semiconductor physics, illustration, design)

her desk is a giant 32 inch cintiq monitor revealing a multitude of high end applications all running simultaneously, in their respective windows. She reads, writes, draws and researches for the better part of the night.

working specifically on a blue print

we see her determination, her passion to create the plans –

smart-cube, it watches from a shelf, and plays at making itself into the blue print, with some limited success.

it’s 4am and her smart cube gives a soft hum, that indicates bedtime.

Surrounding the desk, our micro cubes gather, investigate, we see a part missing from the blue print – they gather closer – the lead smart-cube morphs into a small piece, in the center of the blue print – completing the puzzle -- a light glows within it.

--

Daytime, girl’s apartment:

She wakes -- but the room is completely empty.

In the middle of the room is her little friend smart-cube. It jumps and twitches, and flashes it’s little led light – a playful urgency.

She is bewildered, but glows with exciting anticipation. The smart-cube, scurries out the door – she follows as the door opens, she sees it ---

The design!

It is a high speed ion propulsion nano-smart flying machine!

Cube shoots to the craft -– it roars to life

she walks closer, examines the machine …

tagline, “Where will technology take you?”

Ariel wide shot: Girl rides in craft soaring into the sky!

progress

Here is what I have at the moment in the way of character work up for the smart cube.. will have more by later tonight..

variation on cube pitch

External: day: futuristic university campus

Young engineering student arrives home from a day of class. As she pulls up to her door her hover board kicks up and transforms into a small (cube, sphere, hexagonal shape) – she palms it and walks inside.

Enter apartment:

A clean but cluttered studio-like micro apartment space comes alive when the girl enters. We see commotion from small cube-like objects scurrying about, transforming and linking onto one another, forming everyday objects, such as a couch, a table, a lamp…books and coffee cups are original though, and they are scattered around a large art table, which our character approaches to sit down with a cup of her instant coffee.

We see books from every subject, (engineering, organic chemistry, semiconductor physics, illustration, design) stacked in no particular order along with snacks, caffeine, littered around the student’s workspace, her desk is a giant 32 inch cintiq monitor revealing a multitude of high end applications all running simultaneously, in their respective windows. She reads, writes, draws and researches for the better part of the night.

We see her working specifically on a blue print, we cut close and can see her determination, her passion to create the plans – but the form is highly advanced, and unknown to us – yet it resembles a propulsion engine of sorts. We cut to the nanocube, it watches from a shelf, and plays at making itself into the blue print, with some limited success.

She works diligently, and into the night, until we cut … to her barely awake, it’s 4am and her nano cube gives a soft hum, that indicates bedtime. She leaves her desk

And crashes on her bed, the light left on at her desk.

Surrounding the desk, our micro cubes gather, investigate, we see a part missing from the blue print – they gather closer – the lead nanocube morphs into a small piece, in the center of the blue print – completing the puzzle -- a light glows within it.

We cut to black

Daytime, girl’s apartment:

Our student wakes, to a soft hum. She opens her eyes, but the room is completely empty, minus the small futon she lies upon.

In the middle of the room is her little friend nanocube. It jumps and twitches, and flashes it’s little led light – a playful urgency.

She is bewildered, but glows with exciting anticipation. The noncube, scurries out the door – she follows as the door opens, she sees it ---

The design!

It is a high speed ion propulsion nano-smart super bike! (OR CRAZY ROCKET SHIP)

The small cube zooms towards the bike, shoots into the air and buries itself in the central core of the machine – it roars to life!

In utter amazement the student walks closer, examines the machine …

Camera cranes up to reveal a huge future city –

Leading into our promo … “Dream Big. Where will technology take you?”

(that needs work)

We quickly crane down to see en empty street, low angle, the girl on the super bike, speeds by us and break neck speeds shouting with joy!

Design ideas : Robert Valley, Peter Chun

Beatles promo with Robert Valley as the Anim Supervisor.
 http://vimeo.com/12022677

Tron Uprising.
http://vimeo.com/65043932

and

Peter Chun doing MTV spots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R3Hgpgmnwo

tilt shift photography

Here is a website that has a lot of examples of what tilt shift photography is. Its pretty cool, dont know if it would apply to our project, but since you guys didnt know what it is, check it out! Its awesome!

http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/?fp_type=news

Russian Short Film + Micro Apartments

Here is the freaky short film I was talking about today, It's not really relevant to anything we are talking about, BUT I thought I'd post it since I mentioned it, it's a weird one!

I remember reading an article similar to this awhile back, so when I saw the video about the robotic cubes and how useful they would be in a micro apartment with limited space it reminded me of this San Francisco project. http://inhabitat.com/smartspace-soma-is-the-first-prefab-micro-housing-project-in-the-us/

Pitches

Here are the general gists of the two pitches we have so far, to help us all stick to the same thing.

1. The Little Smart Cube That Could
      "A highly advanced robotic smart cube dreams of being something bigger."

In a futuristic world, day to day life depends greatly on the utilization of smart cube technology. Smart cubes have been designed to manipulate themselves into whatever basic object its owner needs. If its raining, it can become an umbrella. If transportation is needed, a hoverboard is then created. The smart cube of our story is loyal, dutiful, and accomplishes his tasks with enthusiasm and joy. His owner is an intelligent engineer (perhaps?) and his apartment is covered with photos of space, inventions, and all manner of scientific things. The smart cube is curious by nature, and sees his owner's blueprints for some kind of rocket shuttle that he has been struggling to create. The cube seems to want to help, but the owner still seems to only request simple tasks from the smart cube. One night, the smart cube figures out what the blueprint design needs to be a success, and enlists the help of all the other house cubes. With their powers combined, they are able to create the rocket for their owner, and they take him off into space.


2. The Blemish-Free Future of Beauty
       "In the future, where cosmetic perfection has become the norm, one person finds the value in imperfection."

In the year 3022, the human world has become a homogenous race of beautiful people, thanks to the widespread use of plastic surgery and gene selection. A mother (maybe shes pregnant when she has her realization?) is looking through old photos and she stumbles upon a very old one that is from maybe 100 years before of her great grandmother. The people in the photo look strikingly different from the people we have seen so far. More than their attire, it is obvious that their actual physical characteristics are different from the new race that exists. The mother notices the faces in the photo- they are all unique and imperfect, with their freckles, blemishes, and wrinkles. She decides to try using makeup to put some freckles on her own face, and is pleased with the results. Out in the world, we see everything is plastered with advertisements for plastic surgery, all encouraging to make cosmetic changes at birth. Other people notice the woman's freckles and like them, and begin to make changes of their own. People begin to realize how its better to have imperfections and diversity. Then when the mother finally has her child, and the doctors are about to take it away for plastic surgery, she tells them not to.



Hope I summed those two stories up well enough.. Im not so sure about the future of beauty one, if I said it the way you were thinking Lauren. Feel free to edit as needed.

Gardening

I was thinking for Megan's idea, it might be cool if the girl had a vintage gardening book, to contrast with the future technology.

NICE!

Thanks for making the blog Lauren. Nice name choice too. So here is the video that first inspired my cube idea http://geekologie.com/2013/10/yay-more-bad-robot-news-self-assembling.php In regards to Laurens future of beauty I came across this video yesterday:

Breaking News

It's funny how the reporter trying on that corset is already skinny as shit, but whatever. It's interesting how we are reverting back to old fashioned methods to appear skinny. I also recently became aware of the 'thigh gap' trend, where you get your thighs to be so skinny they don't touch when you put your feet together. Here's a huffington post article about it, as well as a pinterest board called "Operation Thigh Gap" The episode of the Twilight Zone I was talking about: "Number 12 Looks Just like You" -Jeanette