Animation - Artist Statement

 

Artist Statement for NZCC101

Title of Work: The Beginning of My Story

“Greetings Humans, have you ever had to make a decision that is so hard to follow through but you know it is the right thing to do? Or have people made your decision of what your life is going to be? I’ve experienced both of these. See, as a young tiefling, or others would call my kind demons or devils, the living evil on this world, and we’ve been put into a group where we have to act or be a certain thing. But we aren’t all that. Here is a short recreation of myself, relaxing after a hard day of research of my family and you can see what really happened to me on my 18th birthday. A decision that I wished went differently.” - Lerissa

Hello, I’m the creator and the player of Lerissa, she is my Dungeon and Dragons (D&D) character. Creating this short animation was really fun to do and I'm super proud of how it ended up. The reason why I created this scene is, I would like to show that we shouldn't judge a person by what happened to them, what they decided to do to get them to where they are today and that we shouldn’t let people choose what our life is going to be. Our destiny is caused by our own decisions, our choices, and personally I have experienced this in the real world.

What went well was, the atmosphere of the background and the campfire to give the feel of middle of no-where and nature is all around. Also the rigging for Lerissa went well for my first time rigging, the settle movement I did made her, in some scene, alive.