Symbol

Evironment

Final Characters

Roi004

Roi 004

The symbol I have chosen to use in my animation is the barcode. This is a symbol of mass production and conformity. The movement of a conveyor belt will be used frequently in my animation along with other textures like metal and plastic that brings to mind mass production.

With my animation I will try to target the social issue of conformity. This will be done through the use of a character I have developed named Roi004. Roi004 is a piece of machinery that resembles a Polaroid camera whose job is to replicate a specific barcode hundreds of times onto stickers, ready to be attached to a product. Roi004 is among hundreds of other Roi004s within a warehouse replicating the same barcode and grows tired and bored of it. The animation is set on a day where Roi004 see’s a bird fly past the window of the warehouse. Inspired by this beautiful sight he tries to express some creativity by drawing the bird instead of the barcode but is disciplined by his supervisor. By making small changes to every barcode he makes he manages to avoid getting caught by his supervisor but also manages to express creativity in his work. This is revealed to the audience after all of the Roi004s turn themselves off except the main one. Who cycles to the back of the ware house and see’s the enormous piece of art made up of all the barcodes he printed to resemble the shape of the free bird he saw in the window.

Final Elevations

Roi 004  is the main character of my animation. He is a robot that becomes tired of doing the same thing over and over again within his workplace. his job is to replicate barcoded stickers for mass production but through his innovation he manages to create a piece of art work out of the collective sum of his sheet of barcodes and free himself of the bordem of his job.

Storyboarding

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