I didn't think I was going to have this much trouble with story, honest.

In talking about my characters and my basic story problems with my friends, I mentioned the example story I got from Gavin during that last session we had last semester. Gavin's story idea was:
There's a girl walking alone late at night. It's dark. Everything's scary. She walks up a path lit with skulls to a seemingly quiet house. Suddenly, something makes a loud noise. The hut stands up on its chicken legs, squawking, and lays an egg. The egg rolls down a hill to the girl, who puts it in a basket and takes it home.

My variation on this story was to have the hut, instead of lay an egg, eat the girl and spit out her skull (I was playing with having Baba Yaga come out and whack the hut until it spits the skull out, but that adds a whole nother character, which, phooey). Here's an animatic for that: Animatic 1

My friends and I liked the egg thing, though, because ... eggs imply baby houses on chicken legs. And that's adorable! Here's an animatic where the girl winds up with a baby house: Animatic 2

They both start out the same way. And I use a lot of medium and wide shots. But my main character is a house. What's a close up of a house?

Anyway. I'm not sure how good either animatic is, or if either has the core of a do-able thesis, but ... they're all I've got. :(

Since the semester starts tomorrow

I'm having my traditional period of, "OMG, I don't know how to do anything and kind of suck at everything and shouldn't even bother going back to school!" pre-semester blues. But the semester starts tomorrow so it's time to put them aside and get back to work. Here's my latest Vasilisa render.

I've also been realizing that I don't have a story or anything. Which. Isn't good. I've been talking to friends and I have a couple of ideas, and I've made animatics, but I'm not in love with anything, and I still feel like I should be moving ahead with anything until I've got a story. How can you make a production schedule when you don't know what the production is?!

Also also, I just saw Renaissance, and without saying anything about the movie, it made me think about grey-tones. I really like them. I'm thinking about trying to do something with that.

I saw something else and it made me think about doing all of my backgrounds by hand, 2D. That's all. Also, I don't know anything about 3D, don't have a story, and am absolutely terrified.