Years ago, I came up with a short story about a turtle who likes to take photos. I’ve been experimenting with several different mediums to try and illustrate this story, but overall it’s never been completed. I really haven’t had the free time to work on it while in school. I tried to use it as a basis for several school assignments but I always scrap it for the sake of time.

Now that I’m (just about) out of college I think I will finally have the time to realize it to the its full potential. A while ago I decided to use Maya as my platform because until this point I haven’t been able to spend a substantial amount of time on a project. Typically in 3d we’d have assignments that are meant to exercise a specific aspect of the program. The resulting movies end up somewhat bland. This story will allow me to really push the limits of what I can do.

Right now, all I have are a final sketch of “Hubert”, the main character with the front and side view to use as a template in Maya, as well as a few very rough storyboards and a rough title. I guess the first step would be to develop these story lines a lot more and create concept sketches with color to set the overall look and feel.

I would expect the final movie to be about five or six minutes long. The nice thing about doing this 3d project on my own is there are no deadlines so I can really pack in the detail.

Im psyched to finally be working on this, I’ll keep you posted!