I finished the whole script this week and it now contains a lot of what the group wanted to produce. We’re adding a heavy mech that’s controlled by a female pilot. There’s also a Doctor Who to Monster transformation.
Since we need to make a lot of scenes, I found a lot of references for the group to refer to.
Reference view of the corridor, the red boxes are the elements that need special attention.
And my teammate Gavin wanted to add a little monster character, and I am responsible for providing the 2D design for it. Gavin will handle the modeling and animation of this character. So now, I need to find a suitable place for this character in the storyline. After discussion and consideration, I decided to make this character a pet of the doctor, which became monstrous due to a failed experiment.
Also this week, I drew the storyboard for the first chapter of our story. In this chapter, I mainly want to immediately convey to the audience the prominent status of the doctor in the laboratory, to create a rich contrast with the later plot. Hence, I placed the doctor in the very center of the scene to emphasize his uniqueness in the lab. However, I designed the entire room to be made of glass. Every action of the doctor in this space is under constant surveillance.
This setup highlights the doctor’s unique status, but also his awkward position of having lost sovereignty, fitting with the storyline of Dr. Parvis’s contractual relationship with the research institute. The characters around him, besides assisting with experiments, also serve a surveillance role. Such a design is meant to make the protagonist feel like he is in a prison, setting the stage for his eventual departure from this environment.
The story begins with the doctor, despondent due to a failed experiment, looking at his pet’s collar. Assistant Kris enters and starts a conversation with the doctor, thus unfolding the entire story.”