Sentiments (2012)

Sentiments (2012) from LG Jun on Vimeo.

A collaboration with two of my classmates in school, Yang SiShuo and Rola Lo.
It all begins when we visit SiShuo's home to discuss on what we should do and we saw a fat little robot in his desktop. So we decide to go on the route of centering our animation on that. A lot of my friends have told me it reminds them of Wall-E with all the trash collecting and piling. On hindsight, yeah it does looks and feels like Wall-E! Strangely, non of us realize that when we first conceive of the idea.

Concept for the animation.

As you have probably have guessed, the theme is TREASURE. Not in the sense of "ARRGH MY BOOTY!" treasure, but the cheesy "most important to my heart" kind. The robot's action (our team affectionately called it Teapot) can be easily reflected on everyone of us. We all have done something in our lives that many others considered meaningless. (This rings true to all art student, especially animators, boohoo~~) But all those useless things we do may or may not have resulted in anything fruitful, but those activities (aka drawing frame by frame by frame instead of bathing in the glorious sunlight) will probably be the most memorable times in our lives.

Finding the colour mood.

 

Concept art for the final building. We called it the "musicbox".

Phone pole concept.

Concept art for the bride.

Concept art for the groom.

Concept art: trashes.

Concept art: more trashes.

These elements didn't make it into the final cut.

More trashes.

 

 



Things nobody may have noticed:

 

Remeber this thing?

If you looked closely I actually build an intricate path for the robot to climb despite it not going to appear in the final animation at all.
Yeah animators can be very OCD.