I stumbled across another students work (not from our uni) whilst I was researching and it has inspired me to tell my narratives in verse rather than relying heavily upon sound effects and music.
http://animationforthenation.blogspot.com/
This will give my production pace and an interesting twist to the overall outcome. I have also focused upon my target audience, primary school children aged 4 - 9 years, so I feel that as they are at such a young age their minds are open to all sorts of information so using poetry to narrate the animation will educate them as well as entertain.
The reason for choosing this audience was because most of my background research has been aimed at around this age range, so I felt it was suitable to do the same. Also as the narratives are quite trifling I feel that this age range would find it most entertaining than any other. I am keeping it open to both males and females of all classes (due to the issue of cost as it will be a DVD, so the price will be kept low) however due to the interactivity males may stereotypically prefer it over females.
I have also partly created one of my scenes, an alleyway, that i'm slowly but surely progressing with yet I have currently hit the problem of the middle click! But i'm sure i'll over come it.
I also have 3 working ideas for the narratives: the notion of another world accessed through flying, a positive outlook/humorous on a natural disaster and mythical creatures in search of an object that the protagonist keeps losing through his clumsy nature.
I've also had a go at sketching a few characters for my main character, however none of these are grabbing me. I was going for fluffy, bear type like creatures, however having read more into animation as a whole - in particular 3D animation, I may go for a creature with a 'shell' such as an ant, toy, crab etc, as I am completely new to Maya so naturally moving a mammal that can move in so many different ways with hair and fur may be beyond my reach at the moment.
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