[Pre-production] Brainstorm: Recreate my 1st Story

3 years ago, I developed a story for my first animation, which is about ballet and dream. I gave it up easily at that time. However, I would like to continue finishing it as a reflection for myself before the end of university life.

Some basic pre-production was done at different periods, which will be the inspiration for me to brainstorm a different story but have the similar element and meaning.

The original character design & storyboard:
Shadow is about a passionate girl with a ballet dream but she feels shamed because of her short legs.


The problem with the plot and character:
-the flaw of the character does not stand out
-act 2 jumps too fast
-the emotion of the character does not touch the audience

Brainstorming afterwards:




The character design & concept developed for later brainstoeming:







Since one of the elements is Shadow so maybe it is fun to play with light and shadow with big contrast in the animation by making good use of neon lights in Hong Kong.


Some research record and visualization will be done in the next post.