Biggs & the Shape of Motion

2D Animation using Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Music Production and Engineering—Cubase. Original music by Gary Kulp - Called Atlantis.

Concept Development & Story Boards

Biggs of Univille

Steve of the Mystic Rabbit Village

Environments

 

Animation Wip’s/Drafts/Tests

 

Once upon a time ….

there was a shift in the creation of Artificial Intelligence, because of that the human race seized to exist on earth. The change brought forth the creation of the Uni’s. The Uni’s being half unicycle, and the other half advanced A.I. built their home deep in the wilderness. The Uni’s always had a distinct way of reproducing, they built their children out of what was presented to them by how valuable they were to their civilization. Building a child was a huge celebration throughout their land that brought forth the remaining Rabbit clan to celebrate in their growth. Uni’s gained respect from how they were valued as a clan member. As a part of their civilization, the more you gave, the more you were given in return. Unfortunately, some of the Uni’s did not have the pleasure of giving to gain. They unfortunate ones were those that grew apart from the ritualistic behavior of their community. 

One day, a Uni on her dying wish was granted the ability to build a child to leave on her legacy. Unfortunately, she was not as valued as a many of the Uni’s in their civilization. She was presented with the best of the upper half A.I. technology but had to suffer for the Unicycle half of her child. She was given a square to build the child so that the child always knew it was to be outcasted with no value to their people. She insisted on creating a child anyways. Because of that, Biggs was born and outcasted immediately to the nearest mountain top overlooking the valley of their homeland 

The journey of Biggs and the shape of motion begins at the mountaintop overlooking the Uni civilization. He awoke after being uploaded with the latest A.I. technology to the remaining Uni’s speeding away. Confused, Biggs tried to engage them, but did soon realized he had bigger fish to fry. He was left with a concrete square as a wheel for his bottom half. This came as a surprise but, he began to hop around trying to build himself shelter from a pursuing storm. After building scurrying around to grab what he could to build somewhat of a shelter from the storm, he gazed over the valley to see the Uni civilization speeding around in what he only imagined as a dream. Yet, his nightmare was only at the beginning. 

He spent seasons upon the mountain top overlooking the valley of his homeland in hopes to regain his value as a Uni. Through winter, spring, summer, and fall, he lost hope that his fellow Uni’s would help him. He felt that there was no way to continue though the seasons without the ability to properly move and enjoy himself speeding through the hillsides of the valley. He tried to maintain his sanity by hoping around and exploring nature around him, including what was in sight. He began to lose all of his strength and no longer could hop around to enjoy his surrounding area of the mountaintop. 

Steve a traveling blacksmith of the Rabbits clan, was on his way to visit the Uni civilization for spare parts of trade. He came across the valley to see Biggs at the top of the mountain. From a distance Steve could see Biggs struggle to try to hop around, so he pursued Biggs up the mountain in order to better understand the situation. Once he arrived at the mountain top, he noticed that Biggs was not an ordinary Uni, he had a concrete square for a wheel. Steve then told Biggs that there is a solution to his problem, but he had to work for it. Biggs was slightly discouraged in Steve’s statement but gave him the time to listen. 

Steve presented Biggs with a hammer and a chisel, then immediately began to leave Biggs on the mountaintop heading back to his desired reason to visit the Uni civilization. Biggs was confused at the sight of the hammer and chisel because he did not have any mental and physical strength left to understand the meaning of Steve’s gift. The following season was changing of spring to summer as Biggs lost all hope, he began to chisel away at the square wheel he was given in his creation. He soon realized that he had the ability to turn his square into a circle. Through the season change from spring to summer, and summer to fall, Biggs chiseled away. The seasons continued to pass, and in the winter, Biggs was able to create fire with the chisel in order to not loose hope and continue chiseling away to create a wheel. 

At the end of the winter into spring, Biggs finally finished his wheel. He was so excited to have finally accomplish his goal to speed throughout valley that he was unaware of having no control over his newly created Uni wheel. Due to his excitement he rolled down the mountaintop in a panic of not knowing how to control his wheel. Being a Uni, it was programmed in his A.I., he soon began to find his place as a Uni and gained control of his wheel. He stopped to remember that Steve was from the Rabbit clan and wanted to show him all of his hard work paid off with Steve’s help. He pursued around the mountaintop valley to enjoy himself before speeding through the wilderness to return Steve’s tools. 

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