Kira Hutchinson Portfolio

Don’t mind the first dude

This animatic was our first visual and time-based project from Intro to Digital Narrative. The objective of this assignment was to create an animatic with an original story, which could be one moment, or the beginning of a larger story. The animatic had to be 30 seconds.

My idea for this animatic was to use a story I had been working on. I had a very loose plot, so it was nice to use this assignment to explore my own personal ideas further. I thought that the moment when the inciting incident occurs would be best for this assignment. I wanted to introduce both characters and show their personality within the 30 seconds. The engineering student is very driven to succeed, but has very volatile emotions, switching very quickly from frustrated to giddy. The ghost is very curious and clumsy. I also wanted the idea that this character is a ghost and can’t be seen to be very clear, so I gave her a blue outline to contrast the standard black lines of the rest of the scene.

This animatic was the final project from Intro to Digital Narrative. The objective of this assignment was to create an animatic using original or outsourced sound effects with an original story and concise plot. The animatic had to stay between 1 and 3 minutes.

My idea for the animatic was to mash up the genres of Sci-Fi and cooking shows in a comedic way. I had to design some non-threatening, silly, and easy to draw aliens. The plot surrounds one alien preparing a meal out of scraps collected by the spaceship that they inhabit for the other alien on board. I developed the humor in the human attributes of the aliens in the way they enjoy music and use human appliances. To make it clear that they were still aliens, I thought it would be interesting to imagine what odd things these aliens would eat, because they didn’t understand the tastes of normal humans. I also wanted to add the classic jokes that Nokia phones can survive anything, whether that be space, or a blender and how hard it is to make the Japanese-style omelette omurice.

From back to front- heavy ball, light ball, and bouncy ball

oh yeah