This assignment was for the very dreaded genAI classā¦ā¦. (Weāre currently trying to do something about it because we think itās just really stupid to have to learn this in an illustration program, for many reasons) but thankfully using genAI wasnāt mandatory phew ,,, we just had to make a teaser for a sci-fi series (could also be comics, animation, etc) so hereās 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 itās pretty obvious but Iāll say it again just in case: I didnāt use any AI for this project, as Iām 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 hereās 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 (āCharacter Aā for now, I still havenāt found good names haha) is a generally anxious person, and the time situation isnāt helping, he has a hard time keeping up with the pace. His dream is to become a painter, but itās 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 āCharacter Bā, who doesnāt seem to be affected by time. āBā explains that it isnāt time itself that is speeding up, but our perception of time. Itās humans themselves ā always wanting more, always wanting it faster ā who have triggered this phenomenon. Once āBā understood this, he managed to slow down his perception by living life at his own pace. Itās still sometimes difficult to manage his own perception while the rest of society keeps speeding up, but the fact that heās almost entirely self-sufficient works out pretty well. āBā also feels very lonely and is very happy to have found a friend with whom to share his pace of life."
