Reuben Hayward: August 2015

Discussion:

It's a post apocalyptic cardboard world, where junkyard robots use salvage to build themselves bigger and better. A regular sized junkyard robot scampers about, looking for parts to gather, but finds itself a gathered part of a larger junkyard robot. There's always a bigger fish. The large robot having the same modus operandi continues on, much the same as the first, save for a difference in scale. It grows in size with each upgrade, bigger, bigger, and then.... finds itself a gathered part of a super sized junkyard robot. There's always a bigger fish!

* regular sized robot added to dodge deus ex machina ending

(*changes)

Needs a problem and resolution.

* Competing robots are after mcguffin

* Large robot no longer collects any parts, instead picks and chooses, as though trying on clothes. Ending with a look its pleased with, just before being swooped up.

* With the robots being made of attached parts, their bodies need read that way. 3 changes in scale compound the trickiness.

* The robots eat the parts and grow bigger more chaotically on their bodies

* Character silhouette made after a snowball

* The robots break apart the salvage before attaching it, chaotic.

* Removed regular sized robot, believing the actions of the Large robot to be clue enough to disarm the deus ex machina ending

* Reintroduced regular sized robot as cat/dog robot, to have the Large robot have an interaction where its personality could be better sold

2d model work arounds for some of our shots to sell the scale... seems to compromise some of the 'feel' we were hoping to generate

15/08/15

2 days before animatic hand in

* It's a post apocalyptic cardboard world, where a junkyard robot is salvaging parts, among the parts salvaged is a robot dog. Back at the junkyard robots home we find the parts are for a frankenjunkyard robot, where the found dogs life core is the core used to activate it

* A junkyard robot collects junk on its back. A top heavy back pack of junk that is near toppling point... and then topples. The junkyard robot emerges from the rubble, a tiny scaffold of what he was, and gets to gathering again. A long shot reveals multiple debris mountains trailing like bread crumbs into the distance

* Collecting/Gathering... is there a verbal angle? Hoarding? what twist awaits the hoarder? Herpes?

* The Super sized robot as a dog

* A junkyard robot gathers junk, throwing the junk onto the pile it has amassed on its back, but in so doing, dislodges a piece of junk already gathered, which then falls to the ground behind. Zoom out to reveal a circuit of junk, the Junkyard robot has been picking up and dropping the same assortment of junk since forever. (Let's do this one)

* Dog robot joins the cast, as a junk item to be gathered. Being a likeable dog, is excited to see the junkyard robot at it's approach. The idea of the dog being gathered and dislodged, of being part of the junkyard robot's infinite loop, and every time being excited to see the junkyard robot is appealing

* Junkyard robot is unaware that his storage is at capacity, new junk simply bounces off the top and lands behind. Like this the dog can fall and land much where it started, further pushing the idea of the loop

* Junkyard robot has a rhythm that it beats out. step, step, step, pause, reach, lift, examine, lob, impact, tumble, wind-up, pause. Intended to promote the repeating loop. Also serves for the dogs anticipation moments, and finally for the back to the grind ending.