Leo`s storyworld is based on magic.There’s no actual settings of where the magic comes from and it is almost a war crime to combine a SF world with a magic one.
So we changed his idea from a magical flying bird to a landkruzer.
Only this one does not run on lands, it runs on Ice clouds. Like Leo`s storyworld, we divided the world to two part.
We had two storylines, each for our parts in this project, and we designed the ending to have both side involved. I wrote it down as it`s a very easy thing to do but it`s not. We sat at the table, we ate chips and we spent about 4 afternoons trying to figure out how to make the story goes well with both of us involved. Here’s the meeting record of our ideas.
Sadly, we met setbacks, suggestions, mainly forcused on our length of the animation. Two storyline requires at least 10 minutes of animation to juts barely tell the story right. So we had to delete Leo`s idea one by one until one day I asked him, is it okay to remove all of his ideas.
I know what you feels, I also think it`s not fair for him to do so. I asked him several times about these decisions, he is always the generous one, saying that as long as our characters and animation look cool enough, he won`t complain a thing.
We kept his two worlds idea, and we will shatter the ice layer at the very end, kind of what he want for his story to ends.