TREATMENT
General
Title : Tree of Life
Genre : Fantasy
Duration : 6 Minutes
Target Audience : General
CG Platform : Alias | Wavefront Maya
Medium : Using Maya 4.0
for creating environments, lighting and characters (modeling and animating).
Adobe Photoshop for enhancement, Adobe Premier for editing, and Sound Forge
for music and sound editing.
Feature Description
Time : Future [Year 2168]
Place : Far away from earth [City of Soleil]
Mood : Gloomy and monochromatic mood
City Name : City Of Soleil [Soleil means Sun in French]
Character Name : Stone O
Characteristics : Stone O is an Old Robot, made of iron. He has an extraordinary ability to produce energy from his heart. He looks stupid, weak but indeed a non-human with intelligence, and brave.
Theme : Stop destruction
to the nature.
Introduction
1968 - In a planet, far away from earth, there lived a group of human being
in a city called "City of Soleil". They grow up in a life without
knowing the definition and existence of sun. The main source of energy comes
from a tree, and old mysterious tree that provide the necessary energy for
their life support. They called this tree "The Tree of Life".
In the year 2168, as the city moves towards modernization, people started to destroy the nature to build a new but un lively world. They invented robots to operate machine that would produce trees and generate all the necessary energy. Among all the operational robots, "Stone O" is the only one which puts in all his heart in producing and taking care of his plant and their growth.
Yet trying to fulfill
the ever-increasing demand of energy, the machine finally exploded, leaving
the only half dead flourish plant that is carefully taken care by "Stone
O". Along with this plant, Stone O started his search of the tree of
life - the legend that is believed to be able to make plants re-grow and produce
energy that is needed by this community. He has to find it, before the power
of darkness comes. According to their old generation, they believe that if
the city grows without light that will be the time when the spirit of dead
walks in and the "power of darkness" will invade and transform the
whole city into 2 dimensional worlds.
Climax
The climax starts with the commencement of Stone O's journey to find "The
Tree of Life" In his journey, Stone O has to come across various obstacles,
for which, he must pass through in order to save its community.
Ending
Having gone through all the obstacle, Stone O successfully found the tree
of life and break the power of darkness. The tree of life slowly emitting
light, the city comes back to life.
Nevertheless, the exhausted robot has overworked. He has no chance to see
the change and yet, he has sacrificed himself for the betterment of others.
