The animation's about the animal abuse problem in most of the circus by leaving hints in every scene, to show the happy story of an elephant is actually a lie. The circus will show amazing performances of the animals, and the audience always think the animals are happy to do so, but behind the scene is that the animals trainers are hitting them, and staving them in order to train the animals to listen to their orders.
In the project, I used Maya to rig and create this 3D animation, and I have to solve the problem of the 3D model skin weight and time management issue. Although I correct the skin weight, the model still go distorted, such as the body will go concave. After try and error, I found that it’s a waste of time and the model is still concave, so I used camera angle to hide all the bugs and concave of the body, and its big ears can help me to cover its distorted surface. For the time management, since there aren't enough time to make the dynamic effect, I used 2D graphics to decrease the time to build it. At the same time, 2D graphics makes the 2D animating scene more suitable, and strengthen the cartoon style.