Ideas

Now it is a good time to think about ideas for the final character animation.
First of all I was looking for a style for the movie. It is important to know what kind of animation I hope to do. I want to do a funny conversation between two characters so I will be able to put some emotions and body language into the animation. I decided I would not try to animate human characters because the animation would look artificially rather than real. Even some big companies like Pixar or Dream Works avoid realistic human characters. I decided I would create some cartoons characters, which allows me to insert some emotions into their acting.
Before I started my work I had made a simple research.
I made a research just to have a better knowledge and idea about how long the movie can be, but the most important in all was to study body language in short animation movie clips. Because what I will try to do is to find a funny conversation movie clip between two real actors, I will have some kind of reference for the facial expression and I will try to make it more ‘cartoonish’.
Here are some examples of short CG movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsUzz5H7gHo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6aLDZ4Ero&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvpG_zUDcR0&feature=related
I made a decision that my characters would look quite similar because I really like the style. Right now I know how my movie should look :)