Hi

I just finished my new website, feel free to have a look through most of my works on

http://www.rdsproductions.com/

For the past few weeks, i've been spending my time at animation stage, as well as make the details for all the elements in most of the scenes. I got some quality problem yesterday, and its really bad to present the work to the class with very awful quality. but now I just fixed it, what i did was export all the scenes from flash as PNG sequence and bring it straight to final cut. and I got pretty good quality now. but at the moment, I need some comments about the background sound (does it fit with this kind of informative animation, what sort of music i should use..?), I know I have to edit the 'kid n dad convo' in audition later on.. how about the graphic?anything I should add or change or sumthing?

Some of my character research, this is the reference for greenhouse gas character and the sunlight character.

(Street, R. The Best New Animation Design. United States of America, 1995.)




Another exploration of how the chubby character looks like, a bit fat character, has short legs and big head.

(Street, R. The Best New Animation Design. United States of America, 1995.)




the reference for the 'father' character. I try to make a baldy character (get the feeling of a bit old and mature >> so that this kind of character can communicate with children better)

Ubinas, D. Pick-Up Book of Cartoon-Style Illustration. United States of America, 1979

Character Development

Started from a pencil and paper first, then here are the character sketches and development for this project. This gives me ideas of chubby character, exaggerated characteristic and basic shape as it will aim for young children.

here's the graphic style that I will use for this 2nd concept..

Fixing the Concept

Target audience: children age 6-10 year old

Children’s personality:

- They are curious
- They have different way of looking & interacting with
their environment

- They still fresh (they don’t think so much issues)
- Love to play
- Love to watch cartoon, funny, superhero movies
- Love to be entertained.

Based on their personality above, I decided to create a short animation under the theme of global warming, it is going to be made in 2d flash style. My aim is to educate young child to care about the world in a humorous way. The storyline has to be made in a very simple way and children age 6-10 year old can comprehend the story well.

Characters:

1. a boy
2. a father
3. Mr. S (Sunlight)
4. Mr. G (Greenhouse gas)

Storyline:

GLOBAL WARMING SUPERHEROES

One day, there is a boy and his dad walking down the street, the weather on that day is very hot until they get sweaty. The boy starts asking his dad, “I feel so hot dad.”, then his dad replies to him, “you’re perhaps wondering why today’s really hot..”, then he continues, “This is because GLOBAL WARMING!”.

His dad then explains the cause of global warming by telling a simple story of how the sunlight is trapped in the atmosphere because of greenhouse gases block the sunlight. The story goes into the unreality world, there is Mr. S (sunlight) flying into the world and going back again to the sun, but in the middle of his way, (Mr. G) greenhouse gases blocks his way and starts hitting Mr S. Afterwards, a view of the earth appears sad and crying (because its weather’s too hot) and those Mr. S will appear around the earth.

Back to the real world, the boy asks his dad again, “how to prevent that situation?”, his dad answers “ for you as a kid, you can use your bike than a car/bus.”. . the boy then use his bike and he’s turning into some sort of superheroes, using cloth, helmet and so on. A picture of that hero will then appears in a TV, which the boy and his dad are watching it. After that, the boy asks again, “ what else dad?”, his dad said “Turn off the TV if you’re not watching it!”, Then the boy get a TV remote control and turn the TV off. He will then turning again into some sort of superman or batman.

END

Storyboard





Character Style



2d simple flash style and frame by frame animation.

1. a father
2. a boy
3. Mr. S (Sunlight)
4. Mr. G (Greenhouse gas)

okay, as tarwin said I have to create some examples of how the finish product will look like. So this one is one of the example of the factory scene (here, it shows the irony feeling, the reason is to engage the audience to prevent the Global warming issue.) Im gonna animate the smoke and also the truck at the bottom right there. At the moment Im still trying to figure out if this shot is probably best shown in silhouette version or not.. anyway, back to work.




This one is the silhouette version for the oil factory on a sea. I thought this style would be best fit if mixed with 2d flash animation. but, i gotta playing around more to decide the best style. any suggestions would help me!



Im still building up this Global Positioning system, I thought using this technology would be helpful to find out the area that produces greenhouse gases. I might change the way those building look like, gonna add some more details and stuff. I also add how the signal symbol, current time, an arrow to show the north direction and the small globe there which will be animated (rotating).