Progression of story - IDEA IDEA IDEAS

I like to believe everything in life can be fixed by the really simple and if you can't fix it to find a way to incorporate it to make it into something else. I would really like to draw away from the comedic things I do for most animations and start to look at a doing something with meaning. something that balances the good and the bad moments in life. A thing that evokes some thought. I want people to smile on the good moments and cry for the bad moments, but at the end feel a sought of conclusion.   

Here's is the current animation that has really made me think. 

It all starts with an idea, something that starts the thinking process. Maybe you saw something funny happen to someone. Maybe a moment in your life of some sought of significance. Everything starts up something.... creates some sense of meaning. 

I like to try to draw inspiration from real life. Create characters out of real people. I have always being fascinated  in people and their behaviours in real life situations. How people change in situations. Everyone has those really happy and fantastic moments and those really terrible moments. How do we deal with these moments, where do we find comfort? What is comfort?? 

Idea 1 

A girl, fractured broken. Her heart is breaking walking through crowds of people she always sees them as a blur, she seeks some kind of happiness, reaching grasping, crying falling. Then something reaches out. A small creature  a kind and caring creature, it too has a broken heart. But the two find some kind of happiness in other. Their hearts are as one. They become  friends, they laugh together, they play together and get older together. They grow apart they become distant in other lives, a slow gradual distance, they forget each other. Only to have the memories of their moments together. Those moments make them smile, those moments make them.  

Even now memories make us, they help us to develop a sense of self. Where did we really come from? Did we make ourselves or did the people around us mould us. Can I really change what I am?? travel back to the past. Mend the broken things. Would it make us better??? Is it going to change our future??

idea 2   

Its lost, no way to get it back, tears fall. He wants to get back, go back to the moment where he could fix it all. Creation of invention. "Time Machine". Back to the moment, he sees it the moment where he could fix everything, then he misses, its gone its happened, he can't change it.... He still has the emptiness. Its still there. He goes back again and again. Each time not being able to fix the past because it was meant to happen. That awful moment over and over again. It is taking over his future, its taking him with it. He is slowly dying from the pain of it. Till he eventually finds a moment. a moment well before. His mother standing, loving caring he runs to her hugs her, his tears fall and the pain melts away. He says good bye whispers I love you and then he leaves knowing his heart is fixed.  

This is just to give you an idea on what I am thinking about doing. All I really want to do for  it is to make it amazing really take people aback and get people to think and feel. After all animation is visual communication. I think its really important to get people to think and possibly from this assignment I can push  my potential and create something amazing.

Animator nerd OUT