I worked with a group of people where we decided on a story for this week's premise. The story is written below which we used from the premise that was provided. I took the idea and implemented a rough animation in Unity.

Concept drawings were provided by Ashley, Izac, me and Willow.

Environment Assets were taken from my past project called The Guardian: https://grenadeable.itch.io/the-guardian

For this week’s work, I created a visual novel in Unity. The theme for this week is Movement. The following details are shown below:

Premise:

He is stuck in one spot while his shadow is free to move around as it pleases (Premise provided by Devika)

Rationale:

We think this premise shows great potential in both linear and interactive settings. And we love the idea of a shadow moving at its own will, it gives another level of the playground to the movement - why and how it moves.

Synopsis:

The shadow of a boy builds something mysteriously at night.

Story:

At night, the shadow of a sleeping boy starts moving freely at its own will.
The shadow extends and opens the door leading to a suspicious basement
There are a plethora of horrendous and scary tools in the basement, the shadow picks up a saw
Close-up action of the shadow building something, wielding, sewing metal parts, it looks like the shadow is scheming something bad
Morning breaks in, the boy wakes up and sits at the edge of the bed, his back looks upset and lonely.
The camera orbits to the front, revealing of the boy has both of his legs surgically removed.
The boy stares at the shadow of the cut end of the legs for a long time
Shadow kicks out the prosthetic legs beneath the bed
The boy happily installs the legs and tries to walk again
The shadow is also happy to be in touch with the boy again (feet to feet)

References:

French, J., 2015. Ultimate Game Music Collection. [online] Unity. Available at: https://bit.ly/3xnodqN [Accessed 7 June 2022].
Freesound. 2013. Individual child gasps.wav by SpliceSound. [online] Available at: https://freesound.org/s/188209/ [Accessed 7 June 2022].
Freesound. 2020. Table saw #1 by leo153. [online] Available at: https://freesound.org/s/535626/ [Accessed 7 June 2022].
Unity. 2014. Universal Sound FX. [online] Available at: https://bit.ly/3mr0SOE [Accessed 7 June 2022]

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