Project Statement
When starting this project we had a group brainstorming session and somehow the song “On Top of Spaghetti” came into the conversation, I decided to run with it. It’s a song from my childhood and I thought it would be a fun story to run through each page. I made a few changes to the original story to fit the infinite narrative. The song goes “It rolled in the garden and under a bush, and then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.” In my version, I have the meatball roll around Columbus and in the end, it ends back up on the man’s plate and the whole story starts again. I decided to do a few quick storyboards to find the direction of the piece. I decided to go with a digital style, including realistic and hand-drawn images to create a semi-real kid’s story. To create unity, I applied a sticker style to each object that I think goes well with the folds and paper component of the project.
Process
View detailed project process at Infinite Story Process Post
Reflection
I had mixed feelings about this project, I enjoyed the ideation and design phase. I came up with a lot of different ideas for an infinite story and thought there were some very good ways to tell it. I enjoy humor and it was artistically stimulating to be able to incorporate it into a project. The construction was more of a challenge. I went through many different iterations to make the flipper work, which at times generated a level of frustration. Once I figured it out, however, it was one of the most rewarding feelings I have ever had and loved the final result.