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Method

Thinking about the actual content of my animation, I feel like I will concentrate on looking at 2D animation. Although experimentation is important, it is something I have experience with, having created a 30 second hand drawn frame by frame animation before.

Having worked in this way before I know what didn't work out and I can try other methods of 2D animation as when creating this piece I was limited in software and ended up hand drawing each frame without onion skin and hoping for the best while piecing them together on Windows Movie Maker - obviously not the best method. I would like to look at traditional art to see if it is possible to work faster that way although digitally it would be easier to fix errors. Also I will definitely be using colour this time.

Colour/Tone & Story

As said above I definitely want to use colour, it has great importance in a lot of my examples and inspirations and I would like to look at using it to express emotion and tone. With the main theme of Chicken Little being panic/hysteria I want that to be the focus of my animation. My main idea is having the 'cast' gather and go into panic, running from the 'sky falling'. Continuing with putting importance onto colour and lighting I was thinking of looking at things like Nothern Lights and lightning storms. For the 'cast' themselves I was going to use humanised versions of the animals, therefore the same designs I will use in the comic itself even if not following the story that we are doing for it and instead taking a sort of inspiration from the original.

A look at the preliminary designs for

three of the characters:

Chicken Little, Foxy Loxy & Goosey Loosey

The designs shown above were my first designs for the characters we will be using in the comics. I've uploaded it just to give a look at my art style/the style I will be using and the sort of characters, a group of young adult friends.