Animals have a huge impact on my life, I enjoy the sights of natural wonder and beauty and want to give you all the opportunity to gain an insight into my outlook on the natural world.

I chose to focus my animation on this topic as I have a great concern that very soon the mountain gorilla will become another animal that we will only be able to see in photographs, I also want to make people aware of the implications of poaching and the horror it brings to the creatures when in their natural habitat.

As we can easily identify to the creature I believe that the audience can have a much stronger and deeper connection to the animation and hopefully receive the intended emotions from the characters in the film. 

THE ANIMATION PROCESS

To begin the process of developing my idea I produced some sketches of background ideas, basic character designs, these allowed me to understand how I was going to write my story, what characteristics I was going to give my characters and what the animations overall feel would be. The sketches are shown below:

This image is of my 4 main shots in the film, once these are established I can begin to think about developing each scene  in further detail, add colour and finalise each image for the final product.

As you can see from the above four images I have developed the ideas into better designs, I have ensured that the new designs have these features: Good Composition, Animating space, Aesthetically pleasing and realistic. Ensuring that I have these few features will allow me to keep the aesthetic continuity flowing throughout the short film. 

Images:

1. Main Forest scene

2. Treetops scene

3. Main Forest back view scene

4. Birds eye view/Helicopter scene/Establishing scene