Character and background design

I have been tossing up ideas for colouring for some time. This is my current idea. I like how the attention is drawn to the character instead of the background, even when it is present. This simplistic background style would allow a large focus on character emotion and movement, rather than background design.

Posts about Parody

Tobuscus is a popular youtuber, known for many things including gameplays and Vlogs, but he also has a Literal trailer series where he takes the music from video game and movie trailers and puts his own lyrics to them.

Key of Awesome is a popular youtube channel for song parodies. They purely do song parodies as their content.

Robot chicken is quite popular for probably being one of the most televised forms of parody, where they use stop-motion to parody many things. Tv shows, movies, childrens toys, and songs.

Hishe is a company that looks at movies, Tv shows, and Video games then re-imagine the endings in a comedic manner.

Abridging is a popular form of parody on youtube. The most troubled series would have to be LittleKuribohs Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. Over the time it has been up it has faced issues over Youtubes copyright system. Many times these videos have been taken down due to the copyright system, however more recently this series has been approved and is now in most if not all it's entirety on youtube.

Research and Pitch for 2d animation

For my 2d animation I would like to use my story from the first semester. This story has the appropriate elements I am looking for in a story. Comedy, Action, and Drama, all rolled into one short animation.

Log Line: A student runs for his life when being pursued by a large student, only to figure out not everybody is as evil as they look.

Character designs: Although I have made the characters look very anime-like. When it comes to actual animation I would like these characters to look quite comical. Inspirations include Mac and Cheese, and the Scout and Pyro from Team Fortress 2

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Although these characters are 3d, I believe I will be able to achieve this character style in a 2d format. The backgrounds and scenery I want to give a vibrant city anime look.



This is the sort of style I will be looking at. The characters, even with odd proportions, will have colour palettes to match the style of the overall animation. The backgrounds, even with this style will be much more basic yet entertaining to look at.

The story is the same as the first semester story

A student leaves school, noticing he is being followed by a larger student he rushes from school as fast as he can to try and reach the safety of his home. A chase begins and continues until he reaches his home. Only then does he realise the student is trying to give him his wallet.

Overall this animation will have a very anime oriented look with the proportions of more comical 3d styles which I believe will make a believable story of a person fearing for their life.

Animation History lesson 2

Animation History: Winsor Mccoy

Today we studied the works of Winsor Mccoy, one of the first character animators. The animations include Gertie the Dinosaur, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, and How a Mosquito operates. These animations are both quite basic due to being such early on in the progress of animation. However, at the same time shows how far animation had already come by 1911.