For this new brief since again we were given a keyword, I started off by doing what I have previously done to come up with ideas and began brainstorming:
I found I came up with quite a few ideas however not as much as when I brainstormed the 'emotions' brief. Perhaps this is because these are 'elements' and therefore they are a lot less relatable so are a little more difficult to work with. I did however find that with each element there will always be something to easily display the 12 principles of animation with.
I really liked the elements 'fire and water' and they were the two I came up with the most ideas. However I also felt like they were going to be the two most popular so I tried to to look at earth more closely, but I only found one key idea that really interested me.
In the end I tried to summarise THREE solid ideas because my mind was all over the place from brainstorming. The first one i picked was for the element 'water' and this included having a little water droplet creature that would change forms for every season, i.e ice in winter, steam in summer. However I didn't think this would be short enough for a 20 second animation. I then picked my 'fire' element with the idea of having two matchsticks which are on a date and then they lean in to kiss and set themselves on fire. I really liked this idea and afterwards I was told Tim Burton has a similar short story/poem on this which I had never heard of. Finally I took the idea from the 'earth' and 'water' element where there is a little character who makes things grow/bloom, like flowers and such.
But in the end I really liked my matchstick idea so I am going to stick to that and see where it takes me.
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