updated aim

My aim is to create an impressive animation combining traditional ink painting with motion graphics. I hope my animation could be gorgeous, vivid impressed in visualization, and the story could be emotional.

Learning Outcomes:
- To improve my editing skills.
- To improve my After Effects skills.
- To improve my narrative skills.
- To explore the right way to combine traditional illustration with modern technique.
- To improve skills of drawing characters in any angles, and different facial expressions.

animatic

Here is my animatic that I've changed the beginning to explain the story better and make sence.

storyboard（二）

Then these parts of the ghost gather again.

The girl wakes up.

The ghost points to the sky, the girl nods.

The ghost want to push the girl through a swing.

She is higher in air.

The ghost is happy.

Unfortunately， she falls down.

The girl struggles in air.

That reminds the ghost something, the ghost smiles again.

The ghost runs to catch the girl.

The ghost carries her on its shoulder and keeps her mouth open.

They run towards the moon, and the girl's body is bigger and bigger, like an inflated balloon.

They fly together towards the moon.

storyboard（一）

A woman always stared at the moon.

She leaves, we know she is a ghost.

The ghost drags a girl out of the window. The ghost drags laboriously, because the girl is too fat.

They fall down.

The girl pressed on the ghost. The ghost is scattered.

two animation as reference

The visual part of the animation is what I am trying to do. To use traditional illustration style in animation.


And this one is a similar one.

one more script

One night, a friendly ghost wants to help a moon fan to fly to the moon. The moon fan is sleeping, so the ghost drags her out of the window. She falls down straightly because she is too fat. The ghost feels to worry about how to help her. It steps hard on her stomach to let her spit. Then the ghost ties her with a rope, throw her to sky. The girl throws up every time when she is in sky. The ghost think the girl is light enough, so it drags her and runs fast. At the same time, the girl's body is full of air because the ghost keeps her mouth open, and she is like a balloon. The girl is flying to the moon with the ghost.

visualization of the story

A girl is sitting at a table, she is looking at a clock.


The devil is totally coming out from her ear. The devil is tagging his fingers on the table.

The girl is cutting vegetables。 The devil is waving her sword.
A close-up shot of a potato.
It is cut by the girl.
A close-up shot of the flower.

The flower is cut by the devil in just a second.