For this project I had the starting point of the book ‘Einstein’s Dreams’, instantly I feel in love and my mind started to developed stories and ideas of each chapter. Unable to pick one I decided to work with them all and combine the elements to form a story. Before long I was working on a fantasy, steampunk story for a family friendly audience with the idea of Einstein and his friends having to save Time as its stopped and if they don’t amend it they will become savaged and go mad, along their journey they discover a culture of savages that has seen these effects, the tower where Time stopped and discover Time is actually a dancer, that someone from the future is the one who has kidnapped Time and is trying to make the human race suffer for what happened to him. It’s a journey what hold a lot of meaning and representation, but in a beautiful world with loveable characters and an interesting story line.
I worked with a ballerina to help create the movement I imagined for the character of Time and then started working over this with the original style of animation to create the expression and movement of the character and display and understanding of who she actually is and how she presents herself instead.