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Final animation checklist:
- 15-30 seconds
- Audio
- High quality animations
- Trailer for an animated film
- Nothing choppy looking
- Higher quality animations and motion graphics get better marks
Design portfolio checklist:
- WordPress blog posts
- 1500-2000 words equivalent
- Production and planning
- Key issues I had to overcome
- Screenshots of progression
- Storyboards
- Design ideas and sketches of characters/backgrounds
- Software limitations
- Reference material that isn’t my own
Animation content ideas:
- Cartoony guy/animal character and anime girl fall in love, other cartoons think anime girl is disgusting because of her anime appearance, two run off – sad romance story
- Razorblade handshake, the animated series
- The adventures of Spagnard Dodger
- Advert for a product – Gravement?
- Elli the bat
- Cute animals
- Cat wants food, cat goes on adventure to find food, will he find food? (Yes)
- Poets of the Fall – like band (stars, moons, circus etc.)
- Dancing robot party
- Cartoon fashion show/dance party, beauty bash animated!!
- Ultimate cartoon dance-off
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Mr Cat wants to become the greatest dancer in the world to impress his crush, but three droids from space claim to be the best in the UNIVERSE. Can Mr Cat out-move, out-muscle and out-music these three drop-dead dreadful droids of doom?
I’ve created numerous different ideas, but the one I want to develop into an animated film trailer is about an anthropomorphic cat named Monty who is considered to be the ‘greatest dancer that has ever lived’. Monty has a house and a beautiful girlfriend, both of which he has presumably inherited from his amazing dancing skills. One night he goes out to a club to pull off the most insane and physically taxing moves he’s ever danced yet, but his presentation of self-brilliance cuts short when the lights cut out, and three robots from outer space descend onto the dancefloor below. They call themselves the ‘Drop-Dead-Droids’, and they claim to be the greatest dancers to have ever graced the entire universe. Monty will have to outsmart the droids and dance his way to victory, performing moves he didn’t know were even possible in order to defeat the fantastical robots from space.
If possible I would like to incorporate a few animation/artistic styles in my final animation. For instance, the character Monty the cat is visually more cartoony in design, so I would like to animate him similarly to older cartoons from the 40s and 50s.