"Elevator" Line- A robot leaves his highly advanced homeworld to an uncivilized planet to live with an unadvanced alien species.
Synopsis- My character is a robot created by an advanced species. Their planet is running out of resources, so they create robots and send them into space to find rich planets for mining. The robot finds a planet but crash lands. He comes across an unadvanced but intelligent alien species. The aliens saw the robot's ship crash and think he is a god of sorts. They welcome the robot into their village. After living with the aliens for a while, the robot decides abandon his mission and live with the aliens.
Theme- The robot represents a person in today's society(mostly city dwellers), the aliens represent ancient humans that lived without advanced society( without money, government, or social status). The theme, Advanced society as an unnatural habitat for our species.
Central Point- The robot realizes that the aliens see him as one of their own and not just another number or robot(literally and figuratively speaking). It also speaks about society and technology as a whole and where it is headed, alienating us from the natural world.
Premise- The robot must decide whether to continue on in his mission or stay with the aliens and their quaint living.
Goal- To ask the question, is technology and society the only way for us to exist?
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Character Portrait
My character is a robot. He was created by an highly advanced alien species. Their home world is running out of resources and to keep up their civilization, they must mine distant planets. To survey these distant planets, they created robots and sent them out on small space pods. After finding a planet, they are to report back to the home world so a mining operation can begin. These robots were created for this one sole purpose and mission. My character is one of these robots. For now, I am just calling him Bot but the name will probably change.
Although Bot has only one purpose, he is still intelligent, he can think for himself and problem solve on his own, AI needed for his long and intensive mission. But he is not an evil machine, he can even feel basic emotion, a flaw his creators overlooked. As the story begins, Bot has spent his entire existence in his space pod. The only species he has ever know are his creators. After years in space, Bot comes across a fertile planet that fits his mission. The planet holds no advanced species. Bot enter the atmosphere but crashes upon landing. With his ship damaged, he surveys the area. He comes across an intelligent species but they are not advanced( basically alien cave-men, not humans). For now I will just call them Natives. The natives saw Bot’s ship crash land and they think he is a god of sorts and they welcome him into their village. At this point, Bot knows the planet is rich with resources essential to his mission, but his ship is busted and he can not report back until he fixes it. For a while Bot lives with the natives and helps them with their everyday tasks, farming, building huts, hunting etc. After a while Bot develops a life with the natives and Bot forgets about his mission and decides to live with Natives.
The Natives do not see Bot as a robot or a tool but as an equal, one of them. Bot realizes this and embraces it, he decides he wants to continue his life as an equal among an organic species.
Although Bot has only one purpose, he is still intelligent, he can think for himself and problem solve on his own, AI needed for his long and intensive mission. But he is not an evil machine, he can even feel basic emotion, a flaw his creators overlooked. As the story begins, Bot has spent his entire existence in his space pod. The only species he has ever know are his creators. After years in space, Bot comes across a fertile planet that fits his mission. The planet holds no advanced species. Bot enter the atmosphere but crashes upon landing. With his ship damaged, he surveys the area. He comes across an intelligent species but they are not advanced( basically alien cave-men, not humans). For now I will just call them Natives. The natives saw Bot’s ship crash land and they think he is a god of sorts and they welcome him into their village. At this point, Bot knows the planet is rich with resources essential to his mission, but his ship is busted and he can not report back until he fixes it. For a while Bot lives with the natives and helps them with their everyday tasks, farming, building huts, hunting etc. After a while Bot develops a life with the natives and Bot forgets about his mission and decides to live with Natives.
The Natives do not see Bot as a robot or a tool but as an equal, one of them. Bot realizes this and embraces it, he decides he wants to continue his life as an equal among an organic species.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Project 1: Diorama
The first project, create a digital diorama by using layered photoshop or illustrator files. I chose an underwater scene. I used digitally painted layers, no photos, in photoshop. To create a deep under water feel, I used a lot of black and dark blues for the color palette. I messed with the opacity settings and hardness of my brush to give it a murky look. I animated a submarine, that comes into frame and drops a diver, and a school of fish that passes through the shot. For a background layer, I painted a sunken ship, it does not move. I decided upon an underwater setting because the first thing I thought of when I was told a moving diorama, was a fish tank. I used to have a fish tank as a child, and at the bottom I had plastic rocks and a little sunken pirate ship, much like a diorama.
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