Week 10

I spent the weekend adding the beginning scenes to "The Monkey's Paw". Before this, I still plan to have text that shows the title of the animation before the house scene. I didn't get around to it yet as I was still wondering how I was going to include text and transitions into my animation. Below is what I've done so far with both parts combined.

I had received a lot of incredibly useful feed back during class. Some of the reoccurring suggestions that I've received were:

• Windmill too shaky at the beginning
• Man moving past the window also gets pretty shaky
• Phone that hangs on the wall looks too much like a chainsaw. Removing the white part between the cord will fix it.
• Sleeping scene goes on for way too long

Overall though, I've received a lot of positive feedback on the way the animation looks stylistically. The black and white color choice was effective and texturing some elements along with the lighting. Moving forward, I do plan to redo a lot of the animation though, as I want to go back and change the style of a lot of the objects. Adding the dot pattern that's on the couch in the second scene was very effective (I was told) and should be applied in many more areas such as the house, trees, etc. 

Week 9

"The Monkey's Paw" In-Progress.

Week 8 Outside of Class

Outside of class, I began arranging and building my scene for "The Monkey's Paw". Since a lot of the important scenes take place in the White's household, I decided to have the entire story focus on this single scene. I felt like it would be a lot less confusing to the viewers and that having a set and familiar scene would help viewers focus on the story more itself.

Week 7 Outside of Class

"The Monkey's Paw" is a short supernatural, be-careful what you wish for story. In the story, a family of three finds themselves in possession of a magical monkey's paw that grants the holder three wishes. However, each wish comes with a huge price as the user is tampering with fate itself.

The story starts on a stormy night as the family (Mr. White, Ms. White and their son Herbert) are visited by Sergeant Major Morris, the family friend. While he was traveling the world, he had found a Monkey's Paw with the ability to grant wishes. Having bad experiences with the paw, he tries to discard it by throwing it in a fire but is stopped by Mr. White who takes it from him. He is warned of the consequences, but does so regardless. Some time later, Mr. White's first wish is to be given a certain amount of money. The drawback for this however is the loss of their son the next day. The family is told that their son was involved in a horrible factory accident and as compensation would be given money. After some time passes, Mrs. White suggests using the paw to bring back their son. Mr. White does so, using his second wish. Shortly after, the couple hears a knocking on the door. Mr. White realizes that due to the horrific event and the time that had passed, their son's corpse would be horribly disfigured and decomposed. In addition to this, the family live very close to the graveyard where Herbert was buried, as his funeral had passed at this point. While Mrs. White runs to the door to let her son inside, Mr. White quickly uses his third wish to wish away their son before he is seen in that state. So far i'm still thinking what materials I will use. I will most likely be using different types of cut paper.