Team Meeting Notes 2.0: What next?

We're in the Arctic now, so getting a package is really, really exciting.

Yesterday we split up into a Story Team and a Vis Dev Team, and resolved the basic storyline as a full group before our split. Here are some of the decisions we made, followed by some things we talked about doing for Thursday's meeting.

Decisions

• Setting: Tiny in the middle of the Arctic
• Home of a loner/hermit and "lamp lady," who needs a lot of light to get through the dark, sunless winter.
• The UPS truck arrives, plowing a path through the snow, and drops the package inside the house.
• We'll do the beginning with some 2D digital painting (which Kelsey is really excited to do) and animate the 3D top of the truck over it, with blowing snow in front. We might want a second 2D exterior shot for when the lamps are all turned on, and the house is ridiculously lit up through the windows.

Vis Dev: Stuff to design for Thursday

1. Arctic landscape
2. Hut exterior
3. Delivery man character
4. Delivery truck
5. Hut interior
6. Possibly our lamp lady herself, in case we'd like to stick 2D drawings of her in some shots.
7. And of course, lots of lamps characters

Jon Navy says, "How does each lamp turn on and present itself or introduce itself to the new lamp?"

Story Team

1. Start drawing storyboards to visualize sections of the film.
2. Resolve the end of the story. How does the clap on happen? 

Ending Ideas:

• If the old lady returns, we can differentiate between the delivery person and the lamp owner by their voices, without seeing the lady.
• Insert portraits in the scene of an old lady with lots of lamps so it's clear who we're looking for.
• While all the lamps are laughing, Octolamp spins around and thwacks another lamp on the back, and its bulbs burst with a clap clap sound.
• Or somebody whacks the radio, which turns on and a song that involves clapping plays
• An anxious lamp falls over with a thump-thump noise that triggers the clap lamp.
• There’s a clamp lamp that jumps off the table when laughing and snaps its jaws and then grabs the table again
• Anything else you brilliant people come up with.

See you guys tomorrow!