Starting out my blog here for my senior year capstone film! I'm exctied to document this journey and also excited to share a couple things so far. I've been working on storyboarding as well as some concept pieces and cleaning up the character design, so I'll be attaching those.

For some background on myself, I'm Alix, I'm 25 years old and finally returning to finish my final year of college after a hiatus. I'm nervous, but I'm excited to make this film. I'm living in Wisconsin right now but I was born and raised in Rochester. I moved in 2018 to Florida, lived there two years and now I'm up here! I have two pet ferrets, Lint and Trap, and two pet snakes, Mercury and Salt. I have a wonderful roommate who also makes amazing art and stories with me!

I'm not quite sure how to blog, I hope I'll get the hang of this as I go. Anyways, for the logline of my film I have to be honest - I'm torn between two stories featuring this character here. I'm currently storyboarding both, and once I have I'll see which seems more doable for my film, and probably ask for some advice from you guys which one I should go with.

The first concept - A burnt-out lead singer for a band struggles to cope with his grief of losing a friend

The second concept - An up and coming band gets a call to sign a record deal, but the lead singer can't get inside the building to sign the contract.

As you can kinda tell, very different vibes for each one both with the same main character. The first is more of an emotional piece, little to no dialogue, and I do really like the idea of it since I can be more abstract in the concepts and really take advantage of the animation aspect. The second is more of a funny slapstick style thing, where he's trying to break into this record building in time to sign the contract.

To expand upon them some I'll do a brief synopsis of each:

London leaves after a show, tired and burnt out, and goes to take a bath when he sees the ghost of his deceased friend across from him. He sinks into the water and finds himself back at her grave, falls into the dirt and finds himself back where she died.

London and Cade (the bassist) get the call from the record company that they'll sign them for a record deal, but request London comes to sign it since he's the front man. Cade tells him not to mess this up, and it cuts to him at the building, holding the security key code on a scrap of paper. As he goes to type it in, the paper blows away. He tries to retrieve it but it's lost to the gutter. Now he has to find another way to get into the building before time runs out.

So those are my concepts! I'm still storyboarding it all out, I'll post those soon! For now, have some art of London.