Breakdowns

breakdown video

character breakdown

Ending

 I struggled in finding out a key ending for my film. I wanted the story to capture resilience by following Flora and I also wanted a believable ending. 

After different ideas such as the antagonist dying (probably unethical) or her running away. I decided to just make her return home but to favour the story arc, her appearance changed to a sadder more dried up version of herself. 

Colour script process 🎨

Every colour can be gotten from primary colours therefore I used strips of coloured paper to place scenes into colour families.

 

Coloured paper strips 

Then it was important to blend the colours and allocate them into aspects of the story board.

Rough digital colour blend 

Then I created mood boards made of anagolous painting with complementary accents

 

Scene 1,2,3 mood boards 

Scene 19, 20, 21 and 22 mood boards

 Using the colours derived from mixing and testing. I created a colour palette and colour script indicating radiant areas of focus.

Colour script version 1 

Refining the story extended the colour script and story board. Removing the colour hues allowed me understand the focus on each scene 

Black and white colour script

I realised the background colours were heavy so I reduced the saturation and created silhouettes to see actions clearly and provide an undertone.

Silhouette on b/w backgrounds 

I then had to classify and group scenes and panels according to importance .

Indicating important scenes

I then created colour palettes and linked scenes by interchanging the primary, secondary and accent colours

Colour pick backgrounds 

I then tested the backgrounds in different moods 

Washed out effect

Inverted colours I then coloured in the backgrounds and characters according to my personal feelings.

Eventually I used marine blue and rust orange as symbolic marks to differentiate the two main locations in the film.

Blue and orange 

I then used a black background to make the colours appear more radiant beside it.

Final colour script 

Final Animatic and Colour Script 💥

   

Click ANIMATIC link

The main change in this version is the audio. Although it still needs more alterations for the final production I am more pleased with the outcome. Naturally, the narrative was tweaked to capture a clearer picture of resilience. 

Based on all my studying on Pixar, I thought a clear single-paged colour script would be necessary to visualize the film all at once.