Week 1: The Pitch

We presented our idea and concept to our mentors. Our idea did not appeal them very much. Dave was very confused by the story, and he said there was too much going on in the scene.  Also, the major question was that why was this story set in Japan, there was no relevance provided. We decided to change our concept.

Trying to simplify the story and to still have visually-appealing environment, after spending an entire day coming up with a concept, we decided to tell the story of a dad and a son living in Japan. Dad, a retired legendary baseball player, sacrificed his career to take care of his 6 years-old son, Hikari. The son looks up to his dad and wants to follow his footsteps. Our environment has an aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, which means "beauty in imperfection." The scene is set to convey a little bit of father's past and focuses on conveying the caring relationship of the father and the sun.

I created a 3D layout of the scene to convey how we wanted the space to look like, and also modeled the placeholders for the elements that are going to be there in our scene. Here is how the space looks like: