Premise | Idea

Among the five ideas I came up with for the Premise project, I decided in further developing the fantasy based story of a character receiving a mysterious call telling it to reach the top of a mountain. This concept was born even before the actual project came up and will include my personal story.
While I was developing my personal blog I stumbled upon the concept of the nightsky and bright stars which I later on combined with parts of my life out of pure curiosity. To my surprise the further I thought this idea through, the more I fell in love with it and eventually came to my mind that I will someday make a project out of it. Instead of creating a full animation I will only make some sequences for the Premise project. The story will show the difficulties and hardships in one's lifes, but also hope and development by learning from failures in order to reach something greater. The animation will be placed in a cold and harsh area with blizzards resulting in shivering bones which provides a perfect set showing the troubles of life.

I will be modelling the environment and the character whereas the character will be fully rigged, however, I will be laying extra focus on character movement and facial expressions. As mentioned before only sequences will be created such as the protagonist walking up the mountain and so on. As for the camera movement it will be mostly stationary, monitoring the entire scene without moving. Some of them might be from the distance observing the character and other ones might follow  the character showing either side, front or top view.

Influence map

Early exploration sketches