Outline of Ideas

Ideas for Characters:

Simple characters such as Purple & Brown.
Animalistic Characters (Zoo Animals/Pets)
Horror Characters (Zombies/Vampires)
Plain Human Characters.

When creating my Characters i have to figure out their characteristics. For example how many body parts, skin colour, features...


Possible Story-lines:

Have to be quick and to the point. Use of imagination to keep it entertaining.
Will either do a comedy or horror story line. If Horror violence will most likely be needed to keep it entertaining.

Scripts:

I won't use talking characters if anything i will just have them making random noises. I can write a script of what is happening or a step-by-step guide to remind me of what to do and when.

Backgrounds:

I will either use a background off Google Images or draw one and colour in one. Then i can lay it down and move my characters on top of it.

Photographs:

I will take photographs of already existing backgrounds and can print them out to see how well they work depending on what my characters look like when finalised.

Cell - Based Animation

Cell-Based Animation is where each image is reproduced and then little changes are made to the next image. This shows overall as an image moving when they are all just little different drawings. For example, a flip book. As each cell is different to the previous and next, it gives the appearance that is is a moving image.

This is an example of Cel Based animation, a flip book. This shows someone drawing a stick figure person with a bouncy ball. As each image has little differences the final piece looks like the ball is actually bouncing. Giving the illusion that it is a moving image.

This is another example of a flip book in cel based animation. It is based on the MAtrix movie and shows the gun being loaded then follows the bullet which has been shot. There were hundreds of images put together for this 1 minute long Cel Based Animation.