Lilac

This assignment was for the very dreaded genAI class……. (We’re currently trying to do something about it because we think it’s just really stupid to have to learn this in an illustration program, for many reasons) but thankfully using genAI wasn’t mandatory phew ,,, we just had to make a teaser for a sci-fi series (could also be comics, animation, etc) so here’s mine, the story is still kinda rough, but you can find a synopsis and an animatic further below (I also made the music hehe)!! And it’s pretty obvious but I’ll say it again just in case: I didn’t use any AI for this project, as I’m FIRLMY OPPOSED to generative AI because of all the moral and ecological issues it carries

The main inspiration for visuals is the Futurist Movement (mostly paintings from early 20th c. that center around speed)

And I used the tomodachi life mii maker to help me with the character designs haha

ok here’s the synopsis:

"In a near future, it gets noticed that time is accelerating exponentially; everything has to happen faster and faster, and people have less and less time.

The main character (“Character A” for now, I still haven’t found good names haha) is a generally anxious person, and the time situation isn’t helping, he has a hard time keeping up with the pace. His dream is to become a painter, but it’s an activity that takes a lot of time, and as time speeds up, his dream becomes increasingly impossible to achieve. He ends up feeling extremely unhappy and is about to give up everything.

He then meets “Character B”, who doesn’t seem to be affected by time. “B” explains that it isn’t time itself that is speeding up, but our perception of time. It’s humans themselves — always wanting more, always wanting it faster — who have triggered this phenomenon. Once “B” understood this, he managed to slow down his perception by living life at his own pace. It’s still sometimes difficult to manage his own perception while the rest of society keeps speeding up, but the fact that he’s almost entirely self-sufficient works out pretty well. “B” also feels very lonely and is very happy to have found a friend with whom to share his pace of life."