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Edit #4

Done! In the end I went with the iPhone commercial song “Perfect Timing.” I figured this background music would be more fitting to the iPhone theme and plus its a lot lighter and cheerier than “Stairway to Heaven.” All in all I am pretty pleased with how everything turned out. In the beginning I thought this project would be very difficult, since I’ve had little to nil experience with animation. But it was actually easier than I thought it would be. The lighting could be better in some of the photos though. And if I had more time, I would go back and edit the photos so they all look identical in terms of brightness, saturation, etc

Final product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqIRfl7GBg

Storyboard:

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Edit #3

I was able to make a lot of progress over Thanksgiving Break and now just have some audio editing to do to put the finishing touches on my animation. I think overall everything went really well.

The basic plot of my story/game is broken into three parts..the three levels that the character of the game has to successfully complete into reach the gates of heaven.

Level 1: jump onto the clouds without falling off and try to reach the top cloud

Level 2: Climb into the right “hole” (each hole transports you into another hole) in order to reach the next level

Level 3: Climb up the stairs to get to the gates of heaven.

Right when he gets to the top is when the blocks on the bottom start to fall apart and the whole thing crashes. The figure starts falling into hell and that’s when the hand re-appars and click the button at the bottom of the iphone to return to the main screen.

I plan to use video-game audio for some parts while coupling the whole thing with the song “Stairway to Heaven.”

Will post final video and storyboard in entirety very soon.

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Edit #2

I was pretty pleased with the way my iphone and apps background turned out.

As for the Heaven and Hell application, I decided to make it into like a game. The objective of the game would be to get to the gates of heaven. The character would have to go through a series of obstacles to make it to the gates. I have some blocks and lego dolls at home that I plan to use for this part. I figure in the last stage in the series of obstacles, the figure would fail and began to fall into hell. But just as that happen, the owner of the iphone clicks the main button to return to the home screen.

Here is the rest of my storyboard along with the pictures of my makeshift iphone:

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I had a lot of trouble coming up with an idea for this project that was 1.) feasible to convey in a 30-120 sec animation and that 2.) incorporated the theme of heaven and hell. I scraped about 4 or 5 ideas the first two weeks just because they didn’t fit both criterion. I know I didn’t want to do something too serious or literal; I wanted to keep it original and lighthearted..

After doing some research on the different methods of animation, I decided to go with stop-motion. This one you-tube video I found that uses post-it notes and stop motion totally blew my mind.

So now I had picked a method of animation. I still needed a theme. It was when I was just playing with my iphone once that I had the idea of an iphone application named “Heaven and Hell.” If such an app existed, what would it do?

With somewhat of an idea down, I began to create a storyboard. Right now I’m still somewhat stuck on what the app will do. I thought I could do maybe like a game titled “Heaven and Hell.” A friend suggest the app will ask you a question and depending on your answer you either move up one toward heaven or down one point toward hell. But because I want my animation to be more picture based, I chose not to go with that idea.

Any suggestions on what an iphone app called “Heaven and Hell” would do?? Ideas at this point would be greatly appreciated.

While I still think about that, I made my oversized iphone, and I still need to create the default page and applications page. The cut out part of the large iphone will pretty much serve as the background for my entire animation.

Real iphone next to iphone I plan to use as the background for my animation