Longing

Our brief this time asked us to make a short 5-10 second animation based around one of 7 subjects. Surprise, Lateness, Love, Hate, Longing, Happiness, or Fear. I decided to base mine on Longing. IT centers around my character Business Penguin and his long lost love of Snow Surfing. While he's drive-sledding in his Pengu Sedan, he spots a surfboard in the distance. He suddenly has a flashback to a younger Business Penguin in a snow-surf competition. It then flashes forward to his silhouette and a bottle of booze that he's crying into.
I'm choosing a colour scheme of red, orange, black, and white. I wanted to add a small amount of color to show the importance of some objects in the piece, and the monochrome portion of the colour scheme was to relate to him being a penguin.
When I started to make this project I had trouble coming up with an idea, so I looked into my sketchbook of various doodles I have made in the past and decided to use a sketch of a penguin in a business suit. Then I just needed to come up with a short story, so I decided to make it something relating to how he's been so consumed with his work that he doesn't have time for what he most enjoys in life. I tried making a general theme to it all basing it around the cold and I used penguin and arctic themes for many of the objects involved. I wanted to give it a clean cut so I decided to try my hand at making this digitally. I'm mainly using Adobe Illustrator to make vector images. I'm making 5 main key scenes for this piece. For movement I'm focusing on small subtle movements, to push forward the feeling of emptiness and longing. In the first scene when he's going down the road im going to have the main action be the moving road lines and red flags, along with the sedan moving slightly up and down, to signify the movement of the car itself. I will have the background moving slightly to the left as the car "progresses" down the road. For the next scene I'll have a shot of the main character inside his car while he goes down the road. Red flags will be going past outside the view of the window, and about half a second after the main character will turn his head and we'll get a shot of his bust looking out to the sunset. After this it'll fade out and show a shot of the main character in the past, and then fade out again. After he second fade out it will show up a silhouette of the main character with a glass of whiskey in his hand. It'll have a short swishing motion of the hand as the liquid moves around in the glass, and then fade to black.
Business Penguin longs for his Surfboard. He longs. Such longing.