The Shutters

For all the forgotten treasures in your closets, I give to you the story of the Shutters. It is my thesis for my senior 3d animated film at the College for Creative Studies 2010.

Maggie Shutters, a photographer, upgrades her camera every decade or so from 1910 through the 1980's and during this time she tends to store all her old cameras as well as other tangible items one collects in life in her junk closet. Little does she know that her forgotten cameras come together to form their own relationships. The story is told through the eyes of the latest addition to the family Steps: an urban Polaroid camera. Prior to his arrival the mother camera Ma, a 1920's box camera, looks after the sister cameras, Steen, a 1940's folding camera, and Page, a 1960-70's 35mm camera.

The story is about Steps acclimating to his new life in the closet away from the outside world where a camera is meant to shine while capturing moments in time in a unique and unchanging way. It isn’t easy for Steps to be out of the lime light away from the stereotypical and materialistic status that one comes to envy in life but he soon finds out that these women offer him a life more fulfilling than he had ever imagined.   

Ma

Steen

Page

Steps

Closet Startup

Steps 1980's Room

Living Room

Ma's 1920's Room

Steen/Page 1940's-1970's Room

I start texturing this week but I have about 40 more props (models and alpha channels)  that I need to integrate before I start animating. Giving myself a little over a month to finish the set and all the texturing.