Project Notes: This project was a semester long production. The purpose of this project was to combine all animation principles learned in previous classes as a final animation class capstone project. Tools: 3ds Max View: Preproduction Sketches |
Kali-yuga© 2004
Preproduction Sketches
Storyboards
TreatmentShiva stands statuesque on the Mound of Creation surrounded by the primordial waters. He begins to dance the dance of creation and out of his dance springs a butterfly. He releases the butterfly which flutters away over the primordial waters. The butterfly arrives in a peaceful meadow. A wildflower grows in the meadow which the butterfly cannot resist as it flutters down to take a rest on the flower. A dark cloud creeps in above the meadow. Darkness takes hold of the area as a foul breeze begins to stir the life growing here. Something is being blown into the meadow by the wind. It rolls end over end until it comes to rest against the flower. The butterfly, startled, flies away from the flower just as the wind blows the thing open. It is an old piece of newspaper which has come open to reveal an article on the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. The butterfly tries to get away from the newspaper almost sensing the wickedness of its content. It tries to fly away from the meadow only to come across a field of dirt with yet more trash in it. And in the distance a handful of buildings dot the horizon. But the city not yet content with itself grows with a will of its own. More trash takes over the field of dirt, more buildings appear on the horizon until the meadow is covered by a dark cloud and the dump of the city edges ever closer to its once pristine state of natural beauty. The butterfly attempts to flee far from the city. But Lord Shiva has already begun dancing again. Something is seen to leave the primordial waters as if Shiva himself had willed it into existence. The object is a missile bearing the words "Shiva IV" - the fourth age when Shiva has destroyed the world he created because it has fallen into decay. The missile can be seen high above the city as Shiva dances. The missile gets closer and closer. All the while Shiva continues his dance of destruction until the missile impacts the city. A great explosion is seen which spreads out consuming all in its path. The buildings vaporize on the instant. As the shockwave spreads, the dump is vaporized. But Shiva is not content to stop with only the destruction of the makers of decay in his world. The meadow, too, is engulfed. Once the shockwave has spread across the land, nothing is left save the charred remains of what was once a world. Contrary to what the beings who used to live in that world believed, the world did not exist in isolation. At all times it existed in the palm of Lord Shiva's hand for him to do with it as he willed. He saw fit to destroy it and now sends it back to the primordial waters as he drops the mass and kicks it away, only to resume his statuesque pose until he is again ready to perform the dance of creation.
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