Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Week 4 Homework : Answers

Answers for Idea 3: Nurse Boy

What ‘healing’ things is he going to do to the students of the class? And ‘healing’ technique will happen after another healing technique?

Use his big needle of one student, rap some up in banges, throw some smaller needles at some students, stuff some pills in one kids throat, put a big band-aid on a student’s face, making him fall out the window. And I hope to get more ideas soon.

How long is the flight/healing scene going to last for?
I am a bit unsure of this at the moment but I know that the start of the scene is going to be slow placed and as soon as the healing/fighting begin the pace will become faster.

How big/old is the school nurse going to be compared to the students of the class at the high school?
I have yet to write up a back story for the school nurse so I am unable to get his exact age, but I am guessing he is in his mid to late 20, maybe even early 30s. The students will be at about year 10 level, maybe even year 11 (I guess around VCE age) , so high school students are a little big shorter than the school nurse, but the school nurse is designed to be taller and lanky then most people. But also the student vary in height because people do very in high in high school – so I guess some will be short and some will be tall etc.

Should you make it more obvious that the main character is the school nurse?
Ways in wish I can make it more obvious is:
  • That the title of the animation could tell you that he is the school nurse
  • Have a freeze frame when he comes into the room with the name ‘School nurse’ down the bottom.
  • He could be wearing a badge, like a name tag that could tell you that he is the school nurse.
What SFX are you going to use for the fighting scene?
I hope to use music when the fighting scene is taking play, maybe with minimal SFX in the music (like just to add to the overall affect).

How big is the class – how many people does he have to attack?
I normal class room has about 20-25 people in it. But because I have chooses that this is a privet type high school with well playing student- I guess, students who do their work- there should be about 15-20 people in one class – this might vair depending on how many way of healing I can think of.

How are you going to created/made it? Use Flash?
I don’t like using flash all that much, because I fell that I don’t have enough control over the paint brush. I will only be using flash to get the timing right. And I hope to be using Photoshop to colour each frame. And maybe After Effect to put it all together.

Why is it in a school?
I chose for it to be in a school so as to restrict myself to one place and time, so as I could get more of a flow, instead of just some random nurse attacking some random people.

What style is it going to be in? What is a look you are going for?
I want a clean, crisp look, like that of JtHM with nice line work. I want to do a kind of cell shading, and to use thick lines for the outside of the characters like that in Invader Zim.

What artists will be influential to your project?
Richard Williams and Jhonen Vasquez. And I am sure there will be other that come up as I work on my project.


Answers for Idea 2: Attack of the Fuzzy Wuzzies


Where is it? Is it a real place? Is it made up?
The animation is set in a forest, such as that Robin Hood lives in. It’s an English forest with many trees and bushes.

What is the weather like in the forest?
It is a fine day with minimal cloud, but it is hard to see the sun as the trees are thick and only let in steams of light (that are very bright and light up what in the streams), but there is still enough light shining though to be able to see everything clearly.

How do you wish to make this? Using Flash etc?
A. Seeing as I have already made this animation before, I wish to make it more ‘clean’ using Photoshop, and maybe adding more frames and a bit more story, and or change it around a bit, the story that is. And put the coloured frames together in after effects.

Are you happy with the characters design?
Yes, the main characters might be a bit detailed for a 2D animations but it is only a short animation so I think it will be alright.

What are the colours going to be like?
I am thinking that there will be a lot greens used, a lot like Robin Hood, or even Link from the video game called Zelda. And also because he is in a forest.

Will I get bored because it's a previously explored concept?
I might, this is one thing I am worried about, but I did enjoy making this animation the first time round and making it to its full extent in which I had pictured it will make it all worthwhile.

Is it achievable?
Seeing as I have more or less finished this animation before, and have make it work, and written a script for it etc. It should be very easy to achieve. All I really have to do is make a few adjustments, add a few more frames, and add colour. I could use more of my time to make the colouring of the animation look very nice, and clean.

How will you do the sound for the animation?
I have already done the main sound FX for this piece, but I would like to make them better, as well as add background music, I would hope to get a friend to do the background music.

What is the genre?
In the end it will be a comedy, but I guess people will just think it’s a cute little animation with no real clear genre at first.

How will the background be different from the way the characters is ‘coloured in’?
I hope to make the background look more painted and more like a piece of art work – like with brush strokes. The characters will have thick (maybe) lines around them and clean cell type colouring to make them stand out from the background.

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