SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Alice – Taking Directions
Besides the emphasis on storyboard, the Alice textbook gave out another suggestion that looking back (after having a scenario all set up) makes a lot of sense: bring in all the objects at the beginning of the setup of the stage and move them into position.
I can’t find, in the whole world I created, the freakin’ bench.
Where it was plopped down I don’t know. Obviously outside the garden walls that encompass the characters and action. I flew around with the camera a bit but couldn’t find it close by. And to be honest, with my lousy sense of direction I was afraid I’d get lost and lose the whole scene if I didn’t keep a part of the garden in sight. No, really; I’m that seriously spacially impaired. Earlier I did find a tree and moved it inside the walls, but the tree was a lot bigger than a bench and it was fairly close by.
So the thing to do now is take the easy way out: delete the bench and add in a new one. Though this may be a case of having put the garden, which is now the central point of my created world, not in the center of the world itself so that any added objects end up in the center point of the world, therefore outside of the garden, and I’ll just have to go search for them.
Wouldn’t you just know that any world I build would be off-kilter.
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