Storyboard Animatics
For this project, I plan to focus on the dance of Dunhuang in China or the Twenty one Tara of disaster resolution. This will be a strict animation that popularises some cultural knowledge to audience. So I must understand the details of these cultures and deeply study the meaning of stories, colours, costumes and implications in these cultures, to escape the intellectual errors appear in my animation. I choose some documentaries to learn from them and get inspiration.
I will record the part that I want to the documentary and the knowledge of this part, and then investigate this part carefully. For example, if I want to do Dunhuang dance, I will search the history of dance, costumes, hairstyles, makeup and the morals of dance first, then I will try to draw my characters and first storyboard. Actually, for this project, I specially signed up for the Dunhuang dance class of UK China Performing Arts every Saturday. I hope that in this class, I will deepen my understanding of Dunhuang dance through the dance movements I learned by myself and appreciate the beauty of the teacher’s Dunhuang dance as a student. When the storyboard finished, I want to watch some of the animation made by others to inspire me. I can study storyboard, color and scene in their animation, after this, I want to improve my storyboard and character. Then I will begin to create my test animation for ten seconds, it will be the main part of my animation. I want to arrange the music of this animation by myself, and then I want to find a classmate from the music department to help me make it to a song and add it to my animation. If I can’t find the background music of my
classmates’ cooperation, I will use plan B to choose a studio to make paid music.
In my usual painting practice, I like to practice women’s facial features and movements. At the same time, in this project, I think the shaping of women will become my advantage. Whether it is Dunhuang dance or Buddhist culture, these arts are gradually disappearing. So I want to use this animation to promote the unique ancient colour matching and the softness aesthetics of women.