Water For Africa's Mission

At the start I was given a brief that consisted of a descriptive script detailing what would be desired for each scene, and so my first stage was to sketch what the various elements would look like.

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This was also the time when I contemplated how I should best visually express some of the motions for the objects (such as the transitions & how they could possibly animate in a lively fashion)...

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Eventually it was time to move onto the storyboard, this entailed visualising from the half way point of the animation first, since the first half hadn't been written yet. Annotations were added as reminders for both who various characters were, and as indications for how I'd decided the motion to take place (such as some objects scaling throughout the shot, or the sense of direction etc).

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The 3D aspect that took by far the longest was the environment for the scenes with the mother, child & the baby. Creating a cracked arid ground that appeared to stretch for miles was a very long process, simply because I didn't want it to look clearly repeated, so it was necessary to create many big unique "crack clusters", and then finally fill in the gaps with cracks which were repeated, with the goal that without looking too closely, it would all appear varied & natural.

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