Christmas Card

For this project we were given the task of creating a short animated Christmas Card for LIT.

I started researching into general Christmas imagery and traditions looking up colours and various Christmas things. I started looking at the idea of the Christmas dinner because it is such a pivotal part of the Christmas day. I started researching how different cultures approach the Christmas dinner in different ways. These different recipes for Christmas dinner started to come together and I started to make characters out of the food. I came up with an idea that it was going to be interactive, like a one armed bandit- type machine where you would pull the lever and random dinner recipes starting with appetisers, main course and dessert would appear, but this would have been too hard and beyond my current skills. I stuck with the dinner idea as I liked the idea of very different dinners from our traditional one. There is such a variety around the world that I was previously not aware of. I wanted to incorporate this into my animation. I researched further into the different dishes served in a number of countries and picked out ones I liked best like in Iceland where they eat reindeer, Japan where it huge tradition now eat KFC and people have to reserve this weeks in advance. In Sweden they enjoy Grogg, an alcoholic drink, in Australia they would most likely have a barbeque and perhaps some 'shrimp on the barbie.' I found it interesting in Argentina they serve peacock.

 

After my initial storyboard as seen above, I realised that more dynamism needed to be infused or else the animation would be dull.  

I was working different angles and delivery systems and ways the food would come together to infuse some excitement into the animation instead of it just being a conveyor belt of food. In the end the final animation would have less countries in it but more variations in how the food was presented.