Week 3 Updates

S'up everybody,

Last week we just had so far the best meeting. A lot of new members showed up with great enthusiasm( Thank you Wendy, Matt and Eugene ! ) and everyone was doing excelent sketches ( Thank you Ross, Eric, Arron and Ron). I'm so HAPPY !!! We finally arrived at an acceptable summary for our story. This is almost a brand new story based off ideas from the original after the team put all sort off crazy ideas on the table. So here is the REAL summary for it, oh yeahhhh :

• 200 years ago, there's an ambitious scientist who wanted to rule over mankind. He created a mighty army of sea creature and led them to invade the human world.
• Succeeded, he became the Emperor of his new Aqua Empire where sea creatures are the rulers and humans are servants.  
• In present time, we start in a village of humans that escaped the invasion by finding a land that is hidden from the Aqua Empire. Here in this village live our protagonist, Roka and his sister, Fey.
• One day, Roka flies with his glider hovering over the town. He crashes and goes unconcious.
• He wakes up being tended to by a resistance group who also survived the invasion and have been fighting the Empire for years.
• Roka returns to his village and find out it had been taken over by the Empire. Everyone is dead and Fey is gone.  
• Roka joins the resistance to find his sister and later on, battles the Empire for humans' freedom.
• Roka and the resistance emerge victorious over the Emperial army and imprison the Emperor.
• Fish and humans then live together.
• The message: Still working on how to phrase it properly. But so far we have : love, unity, freedom and ...America ?     

Well, let say i like how clear and open-ended the layout of the story is . However, I feel that it's a little predictable and cliche. I'm not denying that it has tremendous potential for the design and animation; but storytelling wise, I prefer a story with more twists and anticipation factor. The only thing that I really like right now is THE RESISTANCE. That's a solid idea. So let develop this summary more on our next meeting and see how it turns out.

Alright guys that's all for this post. Later !!!