Liam Lubitz
Digital Animation
and 3D Design
Mental Health Awareness Project
11/4/2019
ON HOLD
This project is currently on hold until further notice.
OVERVIEW
This is a story about fighting depression and yourself. Because “sometimes the biggest threat to your mental health is yourself” and that’s a fact. The words will be a compilation of poems that I have written since 2014 to now (the end of 2019) and they convey the mental state of a person growing up with depression learning to live despite it.
Part of my Style Frame that I used to pitch the project
TECHNICAL INFO
My vision is my own spoken word poetry, matched with visuals and music to make it captivating. I will be doing this in mixed media (2D and 3D) so it isn’t just one style throughout the whole thing. However, I plan to have motifs throughout each scene (color: representing happiness. The same one character throughout).
It starts out completely black and white (to convey the black in black and white thinking) until towards the end where hope starts to pop up in physical forms of color.
The character throughout stays the same white stick-blob like character with little to no face to convey that you will be the same person despite your mental state. Mental state will be shown in the words as well as physically conveyed through the character’s body language.
Currently, the rough voiceover spans around 2-3 minutes so the video will fall into that range of time. As stated, I would like to do this in the concept of mixed media. This means that I will be using Maya for 3D animation and modeling, and Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere for the 2D animation.
I plan to get a pre rigged character off of the internet for the 3D animations. I was planning for the scenes to be mostly devoid of color, until the end anyway, and for the character to be simple, so a basic pre rigged character should suffice.
For the music, I will either commission someone or make it myself if I have time.
AUDIENCE
The goal is to reach out to people who are in a hard time mentally right now.
Tell them that I’ve been there but also that it gets better (but not in a superficial way). My written works take the space over 5 or 6 years so I believe that it conveys that it takes time to get better and even when you do, there are still going to be challenges. The ending line is about how the thing that will hold you back is yourself, which I used to not believe but now I understand. I want to help other people understand this, and to break their own barriers.
