Animated Narratives Week 10 - Helping Hand

I worked with a group of people where we decided on a story for this week's premise. The story is written below which we used from the premise that was provided. I took the idea and implemented a rough animation in Unity.

Concept drawings were provided by Ashley, Izac, me and Willow.

Environment Assets were taken from my past project called The Guardian: https://grenadeable.itch.io/the-guardian

For this week’s work, I created a visual novel in Unity. The theme for this week is Movement. The following details are shown below:

Premise:

• He is stuck in one spot while his shadow is free to move around as it pleases (Premise provided by Devika)

Rationale:

• We think this premise shows great potential in both linear and interactive settings. And we love the idea of a shadow moving at its own will, it gives another level of the playground to the movement - why and how it moves.

Synopsis:

• The shadow of a boy builds something mysteriously at night.

Story:

• At night, the shadow of a sleeping boy starts moving freely at its own will.
• The shadow extends and opens the door leading to a suspicious basement
• There are a plethora of horrendous and scary tools in the basement, the shadow picks up a saw
• Close-up action of the shadow building something, wielding, sewing metal parts, it looks like the shadow is scheming something bad
• Morning breaks in, the boy wakes up and sits at the edge of the bed, his back looks upset and lonely.
• The camera orbits to the front, revealing of the boy has both of his legs surgically removed.
• The boy stares at the shadow of the cut end of the legs for a long time
• Shadow kicks out the prosthetic legs beneath the bed
• The boy happily installs the legs and tries to walk again
• The shadow is also happy to be in touch with the boy again (feet to feet)

References:

• French, J., 2015. Ultimate Game Music Collection. [online] Unity. Available at:   https://bit.ly/3xnodqN [Accessed 7 June 2022].
• Freesound. 2013. Individual child gasps.wav by SpliceSound. [online] Available at: https://freesound.org/s/188209/ [Accessed 7 June 2022].
• Freesound. 2020. Table saw #1 by leo153. [online] Available at: https://freesound.org/s/535626/ [Accessed 7 June 2022].
• Unity. 2014. Universal Sound FX. [online] Available at: https://bit.ly/3mr0SOE [Accessed 7 June 2022]