The Birthday Greeting is the adventure of a robot named GREET and his journey to deliver balloons to a young girl, amidst a dystopian landscape populated by many humans and robots alike.
The Script
Below, is an excerpt from the script by Edd Howarth. It is an exciting and poetic journey written with tons of character and thematic motifs.
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The Look
The overall look of this film will have a style emblematic of minimalist photo/cinematic composition and lighting. A focus on WIDE and CLOSE lenses will keep the figure boldly within the frame. The color treatment will have a strong film look with emotional colors, grain, and high contrast.
GREET
GREET, the protagonist of this story, is a delivery robot who is tasked with bringing balloons to a little girl’s birthday party. GREET will be inspired mostly by real current day robots that are designed to be comforting interfacing robots with humans.
Unreal Engine
This project will be completed using Unreal Engine. Real Time engines have become incredibly powerful and are at a point where CG work can be completed all the way from pre-vis to final pixel animation. This project will showcase the results of creation and rendering all within the engine.
The Music
Andrew Morgan Smith is a brilliant music composer with a wide range of sounds and experience across different genres of films. Here are some of his tracks that fit the tone of The Birthday Greeting:
Below are some previous studies and animation tests for when the concept was being entertained as a 2D animated short film.
