Just before Winter Break we were asked to start preparing concepts and the like for our third year films. I'd been marinating on an idea for a while involving a couple of old characters I'd designed in the recent past-- namely, wise old Master Daikon I'd used in my first-year film, who is, of course, a daikon radish, and a peach sumo wrestler I'd created as part of a sticker set I designed called "Fruit Punch". As can be seen below, I did some brainstorming on character re-designs for the two. However, I'm not quite happy with them just yet, so further research and brainstorming will be conducted to finalize an art style I'm happy with. I'll be drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese crafts and artwork, with daruma dolls and ukiyo e as starting points. As for the film itself, I aim to make it about a minute in length and done in 3D animation. The title "Sumomo" is a play on the Japanese words "相撲" (sumo) and "桃" (momo; English translation: peach), in reference to the sumo-wrestling peaches. The story is set to follow Master Daikon, who runs a sumo house and grows "sumomos" on the peach tree in his backyard. He'll only accept the best-- those who lose matches are discarded and a new peach is plucked from the tree to replace them.
Admittedly I'm having some trouble pinning down a specific way to approach this plot, so that will have to be worked on as well. Let's go!
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AuthorNice to meet you! I'm Kristine. Currently a third year student studying animation at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Archives
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