further idea generation

After we'd highlighted the best ideas from our mind maps we started to expand the ideas and flesh out treatments for them. This was a good process to find out which ideas would be best for this project, we wanted something that had good humour but was also original. We ended up settling on an idea about a spider taking a leap of faith. Prior to this we did research into how we could animate a spider with facial expressions. The first thing we looked at was "a bugs life" as this is a critically acclaimed 3D animation feature where all the characters are insects. The design of the characters gave them a full range of emotions to created relatable an brilliant characters. The film was proof to us that we could design insects in 3D that would be able to emote effectively. The next stage is to elaborate our treatment of this idea and create multiple options for settings, characters and storys.