Concept Art

These 2 images were made to try and visualise how Poy's home and the flying fish would look. The strange architecture was greatly influenced by that seen in Masaaki Yuasa's Kaiba, a sort of organic sci fi looking world.


The fish flying over the town is to be a very important visual aspect of my film, technically I am uncertain as to how I will pull it off yet.

During August I took a trip to Tenerife with my family - I spent a lot of time there trying to develop my story and drawing pictures for Poy in my sketchbook. The architecture on the island helped to formulate some sort of feel for Poy's town in my head. These are some of the drawings I produced whilst I was away.

Developing Poy

Here are some of the first sketches I did of Poy, whilst coming to the end of Clouds' production.

The idea of this girl and a world inhabited with flying fish was already in place, however I was without any ideas for a story. Once Clouds had been completed, my attention was drawn towards pitching an idea for my final year film which would appear on the Clouds section of my site under "coming soon".This involved drawing a set of thumbnail storyboards and led to a basic plot structure which has remained fairly intact from the initial idea.

The story for my animation focuses on a girl who is trying to retrieve the soul of her dead Mother, which has the form of a flying fish (amongst many other flying fish in the sky). In my initial storyboards the connection between the girl and the fish was left pretty ambiguous and had a very silly ending in which the girl ended up being eaten by it, being spat out the other end and turning into one herself. Since then the plot went through several changes.

This is the original storyboard for my film pitch: