Why did we choose the ideas that we did?
Brainstorm- We are both very interested in 2D animation, as both of us enjoyed, in class, the example of 'The Cat that Came Back' YouTube clip, which was the example of 2D. We also have both watched Pixar and Disney films, that include 2D animation, and would like to continue this interest by making our own! We created our brainstorm together as we both had extremely similar ideas on what we wanted our animation to be like. Through creating the brainstorm together, we both liked the idea of using small animals as our main characters, and had narrowed our decision down to either a chick or a bird. This idea also came from watching 'The Cat that Came Back' as in that video it is focused on a cat, which we thought was quite comical and in our own animation we wanted it to be comical too, which was worked out through creating the brainstorm.
Moodboard- We created our moodboard after our brainstorm. We found inspiration on the Internet, which included images from Pixar 2D animation. On our moodboard, we wanted to put together pictures that inspired our ideas. We included pictures of popular animated characters such as Snoopy, Mr Bean and the main character from 'The Cat that Came Back'. The website we used to create our mood board was Pinterest. We used this website because on Pinterest, the images are laid out neatly and we could add captions to justify why we included each image that we did. In addition to particular comical characters that we included on the webpage, we added in screenshots from popular Disney 2D animation films, such as The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. Although we are not going for those particular story lines or characters, we will take inspiration from the 2D animation that Disney created for the films.
Draft story board- The story board was the stage where we came up with the first draft of the story that we want to base our animation around. We first came up with how we were going to make our chicks and storyline comical, because we want to aim to entertain people that watch the animation and make them laugh. After talking about different ideas for some time, we came up with the idea that we were going to make two characters fight together and one to the characters would get knocked on the head and go starry eyed and fall over. This storyline is greatly suitable for our target audience and we think that it will be entertaining for kids. We love the simplicity of our idea, because we know that it will be enjoyable to watch and for us, we have made the story achievable.
Character design and logo- We finally chose two chicks as the main characters for our animation, one of which is an older chick who is slightly bigger in comparison and the other chick is smaller and has just been hatched out of its shell. We loved the idea of using small animals for our animation because little children (our target audience) will find it extremely enjoyable and funny. The chick design we have chosen is simple and we will be able to make different angles of the chick easily on the software. It will be much simpler than Disney's or Pixar's as we decided not to over work ourselves by creating a hugely complicated piece of animation, so that is why we chose a simple character. We designed our company logo on Photoshop, by using a colour code of a peachy pink, as we like this colour, and this colour has been an ongoing theme on our blog and throughout our work, so we wanted to carry this theme with our logo as well.
Overall, we have both worked together on every we of work that we have done so far on this blog and in our work. We thought it was a good idea to continuously work as a team together, rather than working individually and not knowing what each other are doing on a piece of work exactly. We started off this project with the brainstorm, and we worked together on this, so we both knew each eachothers initial ideas. We have been working effectively as a team as our ideas started off really similar so we haven't disagreed on any decisions as we both want to aim for the comical animation with animals as the characters.
Moodboard- We created our moodboard after our brainstorm. We found inspiration on the Internet, which included images from Pixar 2D animation. On our moodboard, we wanted to put together pictures that inspired our ideas. We included pictures of popular animated characters such as Snoopy, Mr Bean and the main character from 'The Cat that Came Back'. The website we used to create our mood board was Pinterest. We used this website because on Pinterest, the images are laid out neatly and we could add captions to justify why we included each image that we did. In addition to particular comical characters that we included on the webpage, we added in screenshots from popular Disney 2D animation films, such as The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. Although we are not going for those particular story lines or characters, we will take inspiration from the 2D animation that Disney created for the films.
Draft story board- The story board was the stage where we came up with the first draft of the story that we want to base our animation around. We first came up with how we were going to make our chicks and storyline comical, because we want to aim to entertain people that watch the animation and make them laugh. After talking about different ideas for some time, we came up with the idea that we were going to make two characters fight together and one to the characters would get knocked on the head and go starry eyed and fall over. This storyline is greatly suitable for our target audience and we think that it will be entertaining for kids. We love the simplicity of our idea, because we know that it will be enjoyable to watch and for us, we have made the story achievable.
Character design and logo- We finally chose two chicks as the main characters for our animation, one of which is an older chick who is slightly bigger in comparison and the other chick is smaller and has just been hatched out of its shell. We loved the idea of using small animals for our animation because little children (our target audience) will find it extremely enjoyable and funny. The chick design we have chosen is simple and we will be able to make different angles of the chick easily on the software. It will be much simpler than Disney's or Pixar's as we decided not to over work ourselves by creating a hugely complicated piece of animation, so that is why we chose a simple character. We designed our company logo on Photoshop, by using a colour code of a peachy pink, as we like this colour, and this colour has been an ongoing theme on our blog and throughout our work, so we wanted to carry this theme with our logo as well.
Overall, we have both worked together on every we of work that we have done so far on this blog and in our work. We thought it was a good idea to continuously work as a team together, rather than working individually and not knowing what each other are doing on a piece of work exactly. We started off this project with the brainstorm, and we worked together on this, so we both knew each eachothers initial ideas. We have been working effectively as a team as our ideas started off really similar so we haven't disagreed on any decisions as we both want to aim for the comical animation with animals as the characters.
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