Kohola Iki, translated to “small reef” is an animation that showcases the impacts that human carelessness has on coral reefs. The animation portrays the slow decay of the reef ecyostem from the perspective of a reef shark. It is the hope that audiences are inspired to become more conscious and aware of ocean habitats.

Kohola Iki translated to “small reef”, is an animation that showcases the impacts that human carelessness has on coral reefs. The animation portrays the slow decay of the reef ecosystem from the perspective of a reef shark. It is the hope that audiences are inspired to become more conscious and aware of ocean habitats.

Slide 3: Thesis Slide



Focus on the idea of persuade or influence the person to be more thoughtful, conscious about what they do and how it affects the ocean and coral around the world but more specific to the HAWAIIAN islands.

Thesis Statement

Kohola Iki translated to “small reef”, is an animation that showcases the impacts that human carelessness has on coral reefs. The animation portrays the slow decay of the reef ecyostem from the perspective of a reef shark. It is the hope that audiences are inspired to become more conscious of ocean habitats.

Issue Research

Beginning of Coral Reefs

How Coral Reefs Impact The World

Slide 4: Issue Research

1. How patches of coral grow then become big coral reefs.
2. How coral reefs impact the world. How they provide homes for the marine life and jobs for the people that take care of them. Coral reefs also protect shorelines from erosion, help prevent storms, and even provide us oxygen.

Issue Research

Manaʻo a me a Neʻe | Emotive Sketches

Relief

Hope/ Fear

Slide 5-Movment & Meaning Sketches:

In the Manaʻo a me a Neʻe assignment, Each person in your group identified emotions that you want your animation to evoke in the audience- speak Briefly to those here.

while presentating this slide you might say :

"our group explored how to evoke the folowing emotions in our audience: x, y, z through movement alone"

Put 3 gif movement and meaning sketches (or 1 per group member). Under each write the emotive word that accompanied each

Adjust layout to accomodate amount of movements shown ( if you are a group of one, you wil only have one full page gif.)

Manaʻo a me a neʻe | Mimic Movement Research

Shark Tail

Shark Body

Slides 6 - Mimic Movement Research



In the Manaʻo a me a Neʻe assignment, each group member did hands on research mimicking a particular movement (example shown).

Put the 3 gifs (or however many prototypes your group had) - for the mimic movement exercise-

**Adjust layout to best show amount of prototypes shown.

if your group has only 2- get rid of the other box and make them similar to template slide 8 for instance.

Asset 2 : Brainstorming & First Prototype

Slide 8: Asset 2 Brainstorming and first hand prototypes

Same instructions as previous slide (but for second asset ) - rmember during this assignment we only required one asset prototype per group member, so delete slides you don't need.

Asset 1 : Brainstorming & First Prototype

Slides 7: Asset 1 Brainstorming and first hand prototypes

This is brainstorming skethes and first hand prototypes for your first asset that you produced during the manaʻo a me a neʻe assingment.

Include the brainstorming skeches, any hand prototypes created for that asset (if you had more than one, show that here. Edit the caption accordingly to explain

What to say: breifly describe your approach to your asset, how it would help communicate meaning (how and why it moves), and what you learned.

Story Arc

Slide 10: Story Arc Group.

Include the most recent story arc your group created during the Narrative Workshop.

Speak concisely to the parts of the narrative:

Story

Beginning

Puppet Show

• Narrator
• Explaining problems in the story
• Describes the relationship between the shark/main character and the humans

Middle

Present Day

• Overfishing
• Damage to coral reef

Ending

New Friends

• Humans helping coral reef
• Reef has improved due to help
• New fish join reef
• Shark/main character has new friends

Storyboard

Slide 11: Storyboard

Include image of storyboard on this slide- if you have 2 pages, duplicate this page.

Very concisely take us through.

Asset 1 : (Asset Name here) Orthographic & Digital Drawings

Slide 12: Asset 1 Orthos

(L)- hand drawn orthos / sketches

(R)- Digital orthos/ sketches

edit text to describe asset

Asset 1 (asset name here ) Prototype V2

Slide 13: Asset 1 Prototype Photos

3 stills of assembled laser cut prototoype (use different angles so audience can understand)

Asset 1: (Asset Name Here) gif

Slide 14: Asset 1 GIF

Shows Asset in Motion

Asset 2 : Fishy Orthographic & Digital Drawings

Slide 15: Asset 2 Orthos

(L)- hand drawn orthos / sketches

(R)- Digital orthos/ sketches

edit text to describe asset

Asset 2 Fishy Prototype V2

Slide 16: Asset 2 Prototype Photos

delete if not needed

3 stills- of assembled laser cut prototoype (use different angles so audience can understand)

Asset 3: Fishy gif

Slide 20: Asset 2 GIF

Shows Asset in Motion

Slide 21: Animation Sample

Shows Assets together as a sample of your animation .

Reflection & Next Steps:

This process was fun, but also very challenging for many reasons. we had learned how to use the laser printer while doing this project, we learned how to use Rhino, and we got creative and came up with our own story, prototypes, and mini animation. The challenges we faced were all incorporated with our fun though. Some things were quite a struggle like trying to make sure everything is correct, making sure our prototypes were constructed correctly, and making some changes to how we want things to run in our animation.

We want our assets to come together, but also be their own piece and still be important to the story.

We want to also incorporate sound as well into our animation. Our animation takes place mainly underwater, we want to use sounds of the ocean and waves, but also learn more about how certain sounds affect different scenes and emotions because we will be having certain scenes where that will be needed.

Reflection & Next Steps:

This process was fun, but also very challenging for many reasons. we had learned how to use the laser printer while doing this project, we learned how to use Rhino, and we got creative and came up with our own story, prototypes, and mini animation.

The challenges we faced were all incorporated with our fun though. Some things were quite a struggle like trying to make sure everything is correct, making sure our prototypes were constructed correctly, and making some changes to how we want things to run in our animation.

We want to also incorporate sound as well into our animation.