Transition Notes

Intro 500

- Starts with the shot of Mei and Oyon working on the quilt (sewing the “mother daughter twirling” scene).
- The camera slowly zooms in until their hands are no longer in the shot.
RW colors begin the shift into QW mode (more saturated, vibrant) as the camera moves in closer.
- At this time, the flat RW quilt shapes (the characters, clouds, landscape, etc) are replaced with their corresponding 2-D or 3-D QW models.  The textures on these objects could be animated to further enhance the RW to QW color shift.
- Landscape elements (such as the clouds and sun) begin to move subtly at first, with their movement becoming increasingly pronounced.  This occurs slightly before the characters become animated.
- Once the Quilt World comes alive with more vibrant colors and slight landscape movement, the QW characters begin their stylized motion.

Intro 800

- Camera moves left to right, the first set of QW characters either move out of the frame or are cropped out by the moving camera.  This camera movement could be motivated by something like QW birds flying across the scene, etc.
- As the camera shifts right, parallax effects give the illusion of the foreground moving faster than the background (forced perspective).  The clouds continue moving left to right throughout the transition.
- A yurt moves into the scene from right to left (moves with the foreground hill layer).  The yurt should be a QW version of the yurt exterior, not the cross-section seen on the quilt image.  It takes up the whole frame as it crosses the scene, revealing the yurt interior scene (Oyon with baby Mei) on the other side.

Coping 600

- The scene starts with a shot of the RW broken bottle.
- A 3-D version of the QW bird (or birds) swoops in front of the camera (left to right), taking up the whole frame.  As it exits the frame, it leaves in its wake the QW version of the broken bottle scene from the quilt image.
- The bird(s) enters the scene again (this time as a flat 2-D QW model), and the camera follows it upwards through layers of QW clouds.
- The clouds part to reveal the mountain top burial scene.  The QW bird(s) flies away.  Mei and Oyon are seen on the top of the mountain with bold sunset colors (contrast with the cool colors of the bottle scene and clouds).
- The sun and sunset could be animated in some way, such as a slow color shift, or the sun could be actively setting behind the mountains.

Magic 100/200


- start looking at blank cloth hanging from the wall
- a little breeze comes in and blows the cloth slightly
- wind picks up and cloth starts to blow more
- cloud reveals itself as wind continues to blow cloth
- cloud moves with the wind as two smaller clouds show up and follow the wind across the cloth

- show mei's face as she notices the clouds
- slight breeze is seen on the cloth behind mei which creates folds in the fabric
- the horse runs out from a fold in the fabric
- mei's head turns to follow the motion of the horse across the cloth
- foreground hills are being revealed behind the horse followed closely by mountains
- back hills rise up from foreground hills
- horse disappears off right side of frame
- yurt pops up on background hills
- smoke comes out of top of yurt and trails away blown by the breeze
- bird forms out of the end of the smoke and flies off right edge of scene
- sun comes up from behind mountains
- color spills in to sky as we zoom in to quilt world