Interim presentation – for which we presented our rough storyboard that we illustrated and made into a gif. After thinking long and hard about how we can make our motion graphic more emotional we decided to include a boy who grows up alongside the tree – as he gets older he starts to care about the tree less and less and eventually the tree dies, and he becomes sad because he didn't focus on the little things in life. We're both quite happy with the way it's headed and we're quite eager to just jump in and start making it since we really have very little time.

Google's material design is the type of style we're going for with our animation, and we've collected some great examples of their work to see how they go about laying out different colours and textures to show depth in a scene.