Complete story and Synopsis for animation "STANIC"

Theme

For the project, I am going to produce a black humor animation that reflects the theme of POLAR WARMING. As a result of global warming, glacier melting is all over the world. Thousands of polar bears died because they have no place to live or they were unable to cross thin or nonexistent ice to hunt any seals.

Goal

For my self directed project, I want to produce something meaningful and that’s why I choose an environmental theme. However environmental issues are no longer new to us, and the mood of the production is always very serious. For my animation, I want to make it funny however it still reflects the theme of POLAR WARMING.

Therefore the goal of this animation is to increase our awareness of polar warming and emphasis the idea that regards to the issue of global warming - we will pay for it eventually; at the same time, I hope the viewers enjoy watching my animation.

Inspirations

My inspiration is come from an real news. “Polar bear swims for 9 days, 426 miles to find ice for refuge.” This is the title of the news. I was really shock when I saw this news and I decide to create an animation based on this news. I researched the theme of polar bear, and I found one very interesting video called “Bundjugend” created by Macaia. The idea of this video is to ask people to support a strong and fair climate agreement. The story is very funny however it cause viewers to think deeply about the idea behind the scene. This inspires me of my own story design - to develop a funny story to express my idea of POLAR WARMING.

Story

There are 3 main characters in this animation. Polar bear, Jack and Rose. And there are 2 storylines of the story.

1, One polar bear swims for 8 days, haven’t found any ice to stay. In his ninth day, he meet Jack and Rose on the sea. He took Jack’s ice away - this ice saved his life.

2, Jack and Rose fall in love on “Stanic”. Soon after, Stanic crash into an ice burg, they both jump into the sea. Rose jumped to an ice where it full of polar bears. Polar bears kick Rose away because there is no more space for her on the ice. Jack find her while he is holding an ice, he gives the ice to Rose to save her life. Polar bear pass by and take the ice away from them to save polar bear itself.

environment design test:

character design part2

character develop (style & color scheme)

character design part1

polar bear sketch and develop

my story board

GLOBAL WARMING

nice concept and nice music.

but for mine, i m not evoking this kind of feeling. I will communicate the idea of "polar warming" in a funny way.

POLAR WARMING

Global warming threatens polar bears' live. Thousands of polar bears have no place to live. Their situation now is very serious.

Here is an real report about polar bear. My animation will be based on this report,, and i will design a funny story to evoke viewers' thinking about POLAR WARMING.

Refrences

These are the animations that reflects environmental issues, but in totally different style.

20 Years of Freedom.

The idea is simple but very effective.

Bundjugend is a german enviromental protection organisation
This video refers to the Kopenhagen Climate Conference in december 2009 and invites people to sign the petition at their website.

This one is my favorite. The concept is very interesting. It is not a complicate story but it tells the story very well. Cute and though provoking. Very inspiring.

I also like this kind of illustration and animation style a lot.

The Story of Stuff

I changed my idea for my self-directed project.

I've been research information about environmental issues and i found this interesting website.

Its very educational and inspiring.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/international/

It is a short animated documentary about life cycle of material goods.