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FMP: Food and Bottle

There is no Animatics or proof of concept I can provide on this blog because I quit the food and bottle project 2 weeks after the team announcement.

Unfortunately, during that time, I was under pressure to organise teamwork and disagreements within the group, which left me unmotivated and affected my performance.

With support and understanding from my tutor, I decided to quit the group. I agreed with my teammates to keep this issue on a professional level, not personal.

For the finalised animatics or proof of concept for this project, please check the PDF of my other teammates:

Jia Wei

BA Animation 3: FMP 1: Food and Bottle (E1) – BA Animation (arts.ac.uk)


Yourong Gu

FMP – 22-23animation (arts.ac.uk)


Yuyang zhao

Food and Bottle Project – Yuyang Zhao (arts.ac.uk)

For this reason, I am going to include work I have done during this period of time.

We spent most of our time on the story, and we separated 2 directions along our discussion. As I mentioned before, the journey stops here.

I was inspired by the mixed-culture concept, and I am really interested in making backgrounds. Therefore, after researching diners and restaurants in Chinatown, London, along with photos I took on my travels from past years, I tried to combine the things I have using a picture of a pub I took during my trip to Bath.

Transformed pub in Bath
sketches of the environment

Since I had this idea of a magic chef, I designed some costumes for her to use in the animation.

We had many discussions on the story, and I did some introductory scenes with transitions to explain what the chef specializes in cooking and her ability to use magic power.

After all, I think they managed to do a great job of continuing this project and picking up the ideas where we left them. Please take this issue into consideration because we have all been through a lot during this project.

I wish the new food and bottle team all the best!

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