This video about Somalia's first gynecologist captures the simplictic style I want to capture in my animation. As you can see there is a dynamic colour scheme on a flat background. It also has simplistic designs for it's characters but still manages to look detailed in it's own way. I also admire the fluent movement of the characters on screen as it gives the animation a smoother feel to it.
This animated documentary "Poor Us" also has a simplistic design scheme. This video captures what I want the characters to look like in my video. As you can see there are no details on the clothing(apart from the clothes that effect the outline; the tattered dress in the bottom picture) but this would allow me to focus more on the actions and expressions rather then spend forever designing each outfit for every character on screen.
The series "Crash Course:World History" often has little animated segments with simplisticly drawn characters. I want to base some of the scenes of my animation on these segments because I find they are full of depth and they have a lot of action going on in them.
Coming Up With Plots
Idea 1
- Babies in a line slowly growing, changing body shape and obtaining different objects relating to their roles
- Prehistoric people(Hunter, gatherer, fisherman, cave painter)
- Ancient Greeks in a line adopting different roles(scholar, soldier, sculptor, politician)
- Medieval people in a line(soldier, farmer, royal, scientist)
- People in the 1950s in a line(greaser, mafia member, actor/actress, worker)
- The last row of people freeze and start
- A row of four people typing away at their computers; the figure on the far right turns to look out of a window
- He sees hills, covered in flowers and sunshine.
- He looks down at his key bored with a sad expression on his face;
- His computer screen the phrase "Dream big. Do bigger" flashes on his screen
- He gets a happy expression and throws his monitor on the floor and leaves the room to go to the sunny scene
Idea 2
- A person is standing against a blank background
- The camera cuts to behind the figure
- He see's a lush countryside
- His eye's start to shine as if they are filled with anticipation
- Before he even takes his first step a crowd appears from the left
- The crowd consists of a leader figure behind a podium; near his front are a bunch of formal looking figures in suits and ties
- Suddenly from his right appear people holding up pieces of papers with words such as debt, foreclosure and loan
- All the pieces of papers fall on top of the figure and he is seemingly gone
- The pieces of papers split apart revealing the figure with a sad expression on his face
- Next we only see half of the figures body(his upper torso, arms and face are the only things shown)
- Behind him are a number of backgrounds representing stages of his life
- First he's in bed then he's on a bus, then he's at the office,then on the bus again before he's back in his bed
- The backgrounds skip get progressively faster
- The figure's mood also gets progressively more aggressive before he has angry eyes
- He finally snaps and the background is his office, seemingly shouting
- Every other figure in the office stops their actions and stares at the main figure
- He gets up slowly, and walks out the room
- One of the other figures in the scene walks up to the monitor to view what it says
- The camera cuts to the face the monitor screen; the phrase "Dream big. Do bigger" blinks on the screen
- The camera pans up to view a window; the main character walks into the scene with his arms out wide seemingly embracing the scene.
- Cut to credits
Reception from the Class
Some questions are basically the same so I will only have one answer for both.
Question
How will you link this to Identity?
Answer
This will link to identity because it is about the suppression of personal desires that make an identity unique as most people desire different things in their life. The main character wants peace and to wander into the lush landscape; he can't do this due to being suffocated by routine, debts, bills and loans.
Question
What if you make the animation longer?
Answer
I plan for the animation to be at least 1-3 minutes; I doubt it will run over that time as animation is time consuming and hours of work may only result in a couple of seconds of animation. If it does run over that mark then I won't shorten it as I want to keep all of the content in there.
Question
What software are you going to use?
Answer
I'm going to use Flash a my main animation program; this is because I have used Flash for animation ever since I started to animate short videos. It is also incredibly user friendly and sometimes provides it's own tutorials. I will use Photoshop to design sets and characters for my film; Photoshop much like Flash has it's own tutorials and is incredibly user friendly.
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