Storyboarding and diorama project

Storyboarding.

My story:

In a town called 'Hatty town', people live happily and harmony together. The town is called 'hatty' town because people likes to wear hats from morning to night. One day, murder events started to happen. Every night one person is dying at their home. They are stabbed by unknown seriel killer.
Michael (detective)  is instructed by Bond (Sheriff) to investigate the case. Meanwhile, Ben who is a secret spy tried to do his own investigation at night to find out the killer. Ben was suspected by Michael and beaten up one night for acting suspicious. Later that night, Bond was found dead killed by the veteran, Max who had gun. The climax is the red handed arrest of killer when the killer started to follow the spy to kill the main threat to her killing activity. The killer was hanged by the 'hatty' town people. Since that day, the town peace is restored and everyone lived happily ever.

Sketches: characters and storyboards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diorama for the  story scene:

Sketch:

  

Figure 1: Sketch of diorama set

Materials: Paper, Poster colour, sponge, cotton, box, string, black marker

Process:

Drawing of the house using poster colour to be inserted in diorama set.

 

Figure 2: painting.

 

Figure 3: House.

 

Figure 4: Painting night sky.

  

Figure 5: Painting day.

 

Figure 6: More house.

  

Figure 7: Using a box as the set.

  

Figure 8: decorating the set.

  

Figure 9: Pasting the house.

 

Figure 10: Doing the hanging stage.

  

Figure 11: In progress.

  

Figure 12: Attaching night and day at back of the set.

Figure 13: More decoration.

 

Figure 14: Adding trees and clouds.

 

 

Figure 15: Finished diorama set.

Character designing.

Materials: Paperclay, wire, poster colour 

Process:

 

 

Figure 16: Wire

 

 

Figure 17: Using of wire to make the wireframe for the character

 

 

Figure 18: Finished doing 5 wireframes

 

Figure 19: Attaching paperclay on the wire surface.

Figure 20: Keep reshape the paperclay until the desired character appear.

 

 

Figure 21: Another character in paperclay.

 

 

Figure 22: Detective design.

 

 

Figure 23: Spy designing. 

Leave the paperclay to dry for one hour or put under swirling fan.

 

 

Figure 24: Painting poster colour on the paperclay surface after it hardens.

 

 

Figure 25: More painting.

 

 

Figure 26: Veteran.

 

 

Figure 27: Finished character. (Bond, Ken, Michael, Ben, Max)  

 

Figure 28: Diorama and characters.

The style of this diorama is cubism since it has straight lines, and view from different side, from left, right, front and overlay of houses make it more clear as cubism.

Some of the scene in this story:

 

 

Figure 29: Sheriff asks Michael to investigate the case.

 

 

Figure 30: Spy is looking through the window to find out the killer.

 

 

Figure 31: Encounter of Michael with the spy.

 

 

Figure 32: Ben is knocked out by Michael.

 

 

Figure 33: Sheriff was found dead scene.

 

 

Figure 34: Killer is trying to attack the spy from behind with a knife.

 

 

Figure 35: Knock out of killer by Michael. 

 

Figure 36: Hanging the killer.

 

 

Figure 37: Ken is dead.

From this activity, I had fun and also learn about storyboarding and diorama as it can be used to do stop motion animation which I have not learn yet. I also learned that paperclay is easy to mold but once harden it can break easily unlike plasticine. Plasticine wont break when it falls down but it is heavy on a wireframe and it falls of easily and melt easily. I also learned to draw characters and drawing it from different views, left, right, front eases my work when I use the characters in storyboarding as a reference.