This is my treatment for A painter in Paris, late 1800's. I based the story on fantacy. What you can imagine, and what is real.
I started to think about an earlier project i had done. The character consept art. He inspired this story, and by the looks of him. He could easily be the main character in this treatment. During that porject i did alot of interesting research about Absinthe. The story and the myths dont fit well together, and to me this is an interesting mystery to dig in.

What i did in this treatment was to focus on the fun and the most common part of absinthe history. Aswell i drew referance to painters i know of matching the time setting. Van Gogh could almost be this main character, hehe. This treatment is though of as a large and expencive production. There is alot of characters, a huge amount of animation and a whole city is alot of work.
This is the way i see the movie tough. I think it would suit best of with alot of effort put into the animation. The look would be like ratatouille at nighttime, only a bit more darker and dirty. This is the second draft of the treatment. If i had the time i would rewrite it a couple of times, and also write a set of different treatments. Im sure if i wrote 4 other treatments now, they would get better and better.

Before creating this treatment i did some activities creating stories. You can find them further down on this blog site. The technique for writing a short story is simple. You dont think. You just write. Create a start, a end and then build the inbetweens of the story. I personally like that technique. This settup was presented to me by Iain McCaig in his gnomon masterclasses. Back to the story, it could be anything. Forexample: (the start:) Your computer comes alive.  (the ending:)   the microsoft building explodes. And then you fill in, how it got from point A to point B. Did more computers come to life? Did some of them make a union to destroy microsoft for making them slaves? Does some computers become evil, corrupting our computer system? Do we have a huge computerbattle between evil and good? who can save us now...

This story came to life in like 2 minutes as i wrote just now. Its that easy.