Treatment

Working Title     

Fumans Escape *Fuman (Food + Human)

Theme  

Character Animation

Visual Style         

3D Animation

Visual Elements                

The setting of the story is a cafe  

Duration              

About 2 minute

Target Audience               

Children, age range about 9 until 12 years old and the young-at-heart adult, age range about 21 until 25 years old

Character Breakdown    

Milk

He is a brave and helpful person. He like play with Muffin and Cookie. Sometime, he will also stubborn when faced some problem. 

Muffin

She is a lovely girl. She like use the cream to decorate herself and become beautiful.

Cookie

He is a nice and clever boy. He can always manage the planning and thinking before doing something.Seem he is always think too much, so that he has a lot of  wrinkle on his face.

Cup 

He is paper cup. He loves being a troublemaker. He always likes to sabotage. When he knows Milk, Muffin and Cookie want to escape from the restaurant. He is trying to stop them escaping.

Audio Elements                

Background Music and Effects (Foley)

Rationale             

The research will been done to explore the Kawaii Japanese style and applied it into character animation. Therefore, Kawaii style elements has been used to create character design in this animation.

Technical             

The software will be used are Autodesk 3D Maya Software. The character design and the background will be created by 3D Maya Software.

Story outline      

Overall Synopsis

The story is occurring in a cafe. The Milk, Muffin and Cookie are friend at a cafe. They are friendly and cute. One day, they are see a poster that show vacation in the beach, so they are feel want to escape from the cafe and enjoy the vacation at beach. But, when they are planned to escape, the communication between them are listening by Cup. Cup is start to stop them escape from the restaurant. It uses the trap to prevent them escape. They use their brave and wisdom to overcome the problem they are facing. During the processing of escape, Cup has been falling from the table accidently by it's own trap. In the end, Milk, Muffin and Cookie are a successful escape from the cafe and enjoy the vacation at beach.

Constraints/Limitation   

In the processing of the animation, the way to model the character and the background in 3D will be the problem. That is because lacking of the experiences do modeling. Besides that, lacking of the software knowledge will also be the problem such as Autodesk 3D maya software. Therefore, tutorials and book will be needed to overcome the problem and getting help from the lecturers and supervisor.