Jessica's Story

It's been raining for days, no sun has come out in a long time. A potted sunflower sits on an old wooden table directly in front of a window that overlooks countryside (hay or corn field, etc.). "He" hangs his head, upset that his petals have begun to fall & those left behind are beginning to wilt, all because the sun hasn't come out. At the moment there is an overcast light hitting the sunflower.

Turning point:

It begins to change to a more yellow/sun light that is shining through the window. The sunflower barely raises his head to look out the window. So excited with the hope of some sunlight, he gets really close to the window, pushing his petals and leaves (2 as his "hands", will post picture of this scene later) up against the window. The light gets brighter and he is filled with joy. The music breaks into a fun, playful beat that the sunflower starts dancing to as a reaction to the light.

a resurrection story

A frozen human figure is trapped in stone, and exists in an ethereal and simple world. It is as if the figure were between two mirrors facing each other, with smaller figures just like it fading into the background. It is an art piece, or so we think, and we move more closely in to admire the figure closest to the foreground. As we close in, we see that it is a person struggling to break free from the stone that entraps it. Its neck muscles strain and stretch, its arm and legs tense and seize. The repeating figures do the same.

The endeavor seems to be all but a lost cause, but then the stone faults. Crumbled pieces of marble lay at the figure's feet, and it steps out of the space it was trapped in. The figures ascend through and to another plane, literally lifting themselves up through a floor, defying the laws of physics. Triumphantly, they turn their gazes upward to something unseen.

Heather's Story

Open to a TARDIS-like creation sitting under a jacaranda tree. The setting is calm and serene. The jacaranda flowers have fallen all around the TARDIS . Birds chirping, or some other calming noise, can be heard in the distance. Out of nowhere, a magpie swoops in and rams the TARDIS. The TARDIS leaves the tree and goes through a series of various "wrong places," for example, on a train track with a train approaching. The last scene the viewer sees a wide view of a baseball game. You can hear all the crowd noise. You hear the crack of a bat. The ball hits the side of the TARDIS. Zoom in on the ball and hear the TARDIS door open. Hand picks up the ball. Fade to black.


Also, just in case anyone is curious: Wikipedia pages for the TARDIS and Doctor Who.

Raye's Story

The poem inspiring my animation is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. I want to emphasize the decision and the religious ideas I take from the poem. I want to have a character that the viewer is watching make the decision and then at the end watch disappear down “the road not taken.”

“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other, just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I marked the first for another day

Yet knowing how way leads to way

I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

Cindy's Story

Howdy! Couldn't remember if we were required to post our story or not. But if you wouldn't mind reading it and adding some "Yes ands" it would be greatly appreciated.

You're staring at a dark and grimy tank, when you hear a switch flip. The tank's lights slowly start to flicker on... There's a small stream of thick, dirty water pooling up at the center of the tank. Slowly as the water continues trickling down the wall, clear fresh water soon surges through the crevasses creating a magnificent waterfall. Then, before your eyes, you see green shoots sprouting out from the water's edge and spreading further out. Slowly mosses, bromeliads, vines, and grasses start sprouting up, claiming the tank as their own. Before your eyes, the desolate tank has turned into a lively rainforest. A croak shocks you out of your reverie, with a startled glance you witness a small blue frog shatter the mirror like quality of the water with a hop.