Animated Series Ideas

THESE ARE THE IDEAS THAT I HAVE COME UP WITH FOR MY ANIMATED SERIES THING

1. This idea is called 'The Student Life'. I’m going to gather as many funny stories and memories from students from Schools, Colleges and Universities and make them part of it. So the series would actually be an animated series of real people’s funny memories.

To do this I set up a group on a social networking website, http://www.facebook.com/ as it is very popular among University and College students. I have 20 members at the moment but sadly only 1 person has left any stories. I’m hoping it will spread across Facebook as many other groups have done before.

My group website is http://hud.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232490978

I thought that this would also make it popular with students and interactive as well because people have to send in their stories. Like a constant competition, where the prize is to have you and your friends animated and your stories told! The one problem with this is that you don’t get to know your characters unless I had a host character who introduced the story or something similar. Another idea is to have my own characters who act out the students stories.

2. This idea is pretty similar to the first idea but each episode shows a character doing a different funny thing to survive school. Such as how not to get stuck in a locker or how to arrive to lessons in style.etc.

3. This is a series about an adorable looking dog that seems to always get himself into the wrong situations or happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sort of like an animated series of the book ‘The Book of Bunny Suicides’ but my dog.

4. You may have heard of a new online animated series based on the Radio 1 show, The Chris Moyles Show. A company called ‘Popnoodles’ created a south park type animation version called ‘The Little Chris Moyles Show’.

You can see the episodes at http://www.popnoodles.com/

My idea was to do a similar thing but with Scott Mills, another popular Radio 1 DJ. I could also get the sound from his show as they did with the Chris Moyles one and make the voices high pitched. It is very simple animation if I did the same kind as Popnoodles but I could make it a different style so it’s not the same.

5. ‘101 ways to die’ This Idea is very similar to the dog one but every episode is another stupid way to die. Such as sitting on the toilet and it exploding or walking out in front of a Hearse!

6. This is about a cat who is always hungry and every time it’s food time the phone or door rings or other distraction to stop the owner from opening the tin to give him his food so he comes up with different ways of trying to open the tin. Sort of Tom & Jerry style or even Warner Brothers. Just silly humorous ways for the cat to do stupid things.

Back at Uni

Awww Im back at Uni :)
As you may know I have been ill so I have missed a few lectures but I dont think that I missed much.
I've already been given 3 projects.

1. Make a 1 minute trailer for a 52 episode animated series that are each 3 minutes long.
*** Not sure what Im going to do for this yet but I have to come up with characters and a story to do it. Maybe something like Joe Cartoons stuff or Happy Tree Friends or even the short cartoons you see on Cartoon Network. Another idea is to gather as many funny stories from students and people funny memories from St Davids and make them part of it... Like 'The Student Life' or something ***

2. My next bit of work is a very encouraging one as its The E STINGS competition. Its run by E4 and you basically make one of the Idents (Before a programme starts the little animations of the logo doing something). It has to be 6 to 10 seconds long and I must use either the E4 logo or the E4 Music logo. My teacher added that it has to be a 3D animation too. (Just to make it harder).
The winner recieves a commission from E4 to make a series of idents with a £15,000 budget and Two runner-ups will each receive £1500 worth of kit of their choice.
That's definitly encouraged me to come up with something good!!!
*** I've got a few ideas... silly things at the moment. When I have my notebook with me I'll add them as a new note. ***
Heres the website - www.channel4.com/estings

3. This is to choose an artist and create a font to do with his work. I need to come up with 4 design proposals, then a finished alphabet and an online advert.
*** At the moment I have 3 artists in mind. Alexander Calder, HR Giger and Keith Haring. I have a few ideas in mind but I cant really explain them so again I will put any sketchs up later.

Bronchitis!!!

I've not been at all well :( I caught Bronchitis so did my mum. Its where the lungs get inflamed and lots of symptoms like
* An expectorating and painful cough
* Dyspnea (Shortness of breath)
* Fatigue and Malaise (Basically exhaustion and tiredness)
* Weakness all over
* Mild fever
* Chest Pains
* Vibration in chest when breathing

So basically not very nice and the fact I have a cold too now isnt helping as it's making breathing even harder!!! I have got antibiotics, they do help but only for a short time and i can only have it 4 times a day. Sleeping is very hard as my throat is soar from coughing and everytime i lie down i cant breath properly so cough again!!! I'm so sick of it now :(
Matt has been brilliant though as he's stayed with me since Thursday looking after me :) Hes been so sweet, asking if theirs anything he can do, getting me drinks, making me food, if I've woken up coughing he's tried to help, hes been keeping me smiling and happy. Basically really helping me get through the pain.
I've not done much work because of it and I dont know if I will be up for more lectures today as im so wiped out and feeling a lot worse but we will see.

Reven

When I was younger i created this character. His name is Reven and was named after my cat at the time :) I'm going have him introduce my self promotion website thing that were doing with John Kelly!!!

Spit Art

Thats right SPIT ART!!! Its a new type of art. It did really interest me when i found it because its just so different and weird. Here is a video of a guy doing some. It is quite amazing how they actually do it!!! Have a look.



There are more spit art videos on YouTube just do a search for 'spit art' and check them out!!!

Sprite

Oh nearly forgot here is my Sprite Animation and the drawings of him too. I actually based him on my boyfriend, Matt. I've included a photo of him too so you can compare the cartoon version with him. Enjoy!!!

FRONT

BACK

MATT

UPDATE
YouTube is being a bit funny about this so when I'm back from visiting Matt in Bournemouth i will try again at uploading it on here :)

Morphing Animation - Dollman

Here is a more upto date version of my hand-drawn morphing animation also known as George or Dollman. It now has a Monty Phython feel to it but it is better and longer also has me doing silly sound effects :D

Animatic

I meant to do this before I left Uni to come home as we didn't have internet here as we just moved house!!!
So here is my animatic :) Its not finished as I'm getting people to do the voices for me and get a sound editing programme. Then I'll add them in and post the finished version on here. I currently don't know my mark for this yet as I gave it in on the last few days when ever that was. i get my mark when i come back.

Michael Gondry

Gondry was born in Versailles, France. Simply known as the director whose work makes other directors cry, Michel Gondry sets the standard in everything he does. His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, where he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behavior". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of six music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, Radiohead, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, and Beck. His groundbreaking videos for artists have won him every music video award available, and he is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the director of the commercial that has won the most prizes in the world, including the Grand Prix at Cannes, three silvers at D&AD and the best campaign at BTAA (Levi’s Drugstore).
Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the "bullet time" techniques used in The Matrix, notably in his "Like A Rolling Stone" video for the Rolling Stones and a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed commercials for GAP.
He has also completed three feature films, Human Nature, the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the recently completed The Science of Sleep, which was premiered at the Sundance Festival in February 2006.

Finished Versions of my Storyboard

These are the first 2 pages of my storyboard that are completely finished. I'm having problems with Flash and photoshop at the moment so its going very slowly :(