Finished Model + Script – New Animation Project

She's ready to be animated!

This is the new model for my piece, which i'm now calling

Sunsets

Okay not a great name, but I prefer to give something short and code-name esque to these sub 1-min animations than some full blown title.


And, the script.

So this piece is, visually, quite simple. A woman in a dark room pours herself a drink, takes off her heels, and sits back in a couch. But as we watch the piece, we listen to her monologue.

This is very different from the rest of my pieces and for good reason: we shouldn't be kept to the same descriptors of our work. We need to always be pushing boundaries, asking questions, and seeing what the next move will be for our art.

So rather than a no-dialogue piece, showing different rooms, camera moves, lighting changes, and sound fx heavy (Big Fire), i'm doing something that carries itself solely in a simple monologue of a single character.

Here is that monologue:

I have this memory of a sunset, so perfect.

I stood on the beach and watched until the sky was dark.

But I can’t remember when or where this was. What ownership can you claim over a memory without context? What value does it have over a dream?

I keep looking for the rest of it. I’ve replayed my life over and over, but it sits in excess.

Do I deserve to have witnessed something so beautiful?

Or maybe by forgetting, I’ve lost the right to call it mine.

When I realized I wanted to have her speak a story in this piece, I was completely lost. But this idea came to me because I truly have a lonesome memory like this of the kind of sunset you see once in your life, and often scrape the years I've lived trying to find it's context.

It will always be more genuine and lead to less questions and confusion when art comes from your own life, so I will always recommend this approach.

I hope you're all excited to see the finished product like I am!