SELF DIRECTED BRIEF

Animation Short (Title Pending)



Background: My first idea (which this blog was named after) was of a steampunk robot in a industrial city still functioning in an echo of a time it was inhabited by humans. However the more I tried to develop it the more and more I was afraid that people would continue to utter “like Wally?” (and yet no one says anything about Johnny Number 5 of Short Circuit) and so I felt that I had to abandon that idea. That was a lengthy debate I struggled with but I think it was for the best. My other idea was brought on by a random daydream I had.


Brief: To do a short animation, the narrative for which is still at the very earl stages. Thus at the moment I want it to be a pilot but it could end up as a trailer if I can’t get the story together. It will consist of the protagonist, who we will call the French Man for now, walking to a location, a fight scene breaking out in a nightclub and a showdown with bits of the more explanatory narrative broken up between that in flashbacks/cutaways. While the narrative is lacking the world where this takes place is consistently getting clearer.

It is world full of clowns, by that I mean that everyone is born with a unique clown face. The protagonist is a mime, and I choose this because the day dream started with the novel idea of him fighting in a bar fight with a sword that quite frankly, isn’t there. The sword itself can be real but cannot be seen or heard, just its effect on objects and people.



Research: As you can see from previous posts I plan to draw from a great deal of inspiration ant technique from a variety of Adult Swim Cartoons - the main one being Metalocalypse but also The Boondocks for their action shots. That all said I still wish to develop my own style in terms of art and not produce what looks like fan art of those shows.