Preliminary Styleframes

These styleframes were based on the original script and storyboard before the idea was revamped.

Preliminary Storyboard

From the original script, this first storyboard was made.

Preliminary Script

This was an initial preliminary idea for a video showing how video games are a medium for art. Here is the initial script. Bold is narration while italic is visual:

EXPLOSION

The most interesting art medium humans have ever had... is the video game

REVERSE

Let's back up and see why.

BUILDING 3D FLOWCHART

What are the art forms you know? Drawing, music, sculpture, writing, performance.

(painting, photography, filmmaking, fashion, architecture, landscaping, typography, graphic design, graffiti, acting, dance, installation, industrial design...)

Sometimes we combine things like writing and performance to get theatre
or graphic design and animation to get motion graphics
They always involve someone communicating something.

SIGNATURE ON PAINTING

Maybe even a group of people working together to communicate something.

CREDITS ON FILMMAKING

And we've been doing it since the beginning of our time here.

[painting, music, architecture, sculpture, fashion, writing]

Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, the Renaissance.

(flowchart changes style for each period)

Throughout art history, there have been periods of explosive growth and new thinking.
We are now in a digital renaissance. The internet has been a crucible for new ideas in user interface.

(simplified web page on Web Design near Interface Design)

This combined with industrial design results in even more interfaces.

(wiimote, kinect, tablet, controller, rift, wacom)

Which brings us to the art form which combines more mediums than any other has in the history of mankind: video games.

(slowly speeding up as each connects to video games)

Traditional art, sculpture, writing, animation, performance, music, architecture [interior design, landscaping], industrial design, cinematography, interface design...

(all get sucked in to video games starting the bright light of an explosion)

Almost every artistic discipline finds a home in creating and experiencing video games.
Imagine the man in 15th century Florence who didn't care about seeing the sistine chapel.
The 1920's American that wouldn't see a film.
What person in 2014 would not put on an Oculus Rift?
We're in the middle of the digital renaissance.
Looking the other way... well, just try to look away from an explosion.

BANG
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Masks and Mattes

Using a mask to stylize a slideshow of some friends' recent trip to Boston. Also a hypothetical company logo at the end.

Shield

A simple animation of a shield appearing. I chose a padlock like it would be featuring security for a product during a video.

Scale

An example of scale keyframing