The task for the Minor Project was to create a self-directed project about anything we wanted to do within 15 weeks. The fact we had no base to stand on and we had to figure out what we wanted to ourselves scared me, i've never really had to come up with my own idea fresh out of the box before.
The Goal:
With this minor project I am hoping to do something that differs from the model of Wyld’s Globe I did during an earlier transcription project. By this I mean to actually create an animation that this time is a totally original idea of mine and hope to improve on my animating and modelling ability during the course of creating this idea for the task.
The idea:
Camera fades in from black to show a small artisan’s workshop (an artisan is a high grade professional crafter) and multiple shelves full of completed solar system models (Orrery).
The camera continues to pan across until we can see the artisan at work at his worktable. The camera cuts to the current orrery he is working on of our solar system, he ponders as to if it is finished while tapping his finger on the table. After a small amount of time he decides to pull apart the orrery and fits in another rotation ring with a small rod extended out far enough to be the new third orbit (this is where Earth would be). He sets it aside and selects a wooden ball from a tray of various sizes and proceeds to carve detail into it; during this the camera cuts to the shavings floating to the table, the camera cuts back to the finished ball as the artisan blows the remaining dust from it. The artisan reaches for a brush and the camera cuts to the paint as he gently dabs the brush, this dabbing happens a couple of times with the different colours. Cut back to the ball and it has become coloured looking very close to early earth before the tectonic plates shifted (Pangea).
He places the ball upon the rod and starts up the orrery and lets it spin for a bit. He slams the table and the camera cuts to the side of the worktop as he lifts a waste basket to the table and shoves the rejected orrey into it. He in anger places the waste basket to the side and gets out his chair and storms off, the camera cuts to the orrery in the trash and zooms in closer to the label on the base, the label states “ Orrery of Sytem “Sol” crafted by God (or some other name of god)”. The camera fades to black.
