I’m planning to make an animation about parkour. Alan said that there are so many animations about parkour. So, how to make it different from others is important. He suggested me to pay more attention to the background and origin of parkour, as a way to specify the content of my own parkour animation through more in-depth research.
So, I did the search and found that parkour was originally intended to express a spirit of freedom, challenge, and self-transcendence. Then in the slow development as a kind of sports, it also carries the corresponding sports spirit.
Therefore, in terms of stories, I naturally thought of a free soul who was bound in the character’s heart, and he used parkour to achieve self-transcendence and break free from the shackles. What I was trying to do was express the struggle between the external and the interior world. The outside was that he was parkour, and the inside was that his mind was imprisoned in a box, bound by all kinds of bandages, as his parkour became more and more intense, the bandages finally emerged from the outside and were successfully broken by him.