Since finishing our cats and dogs project, we have 2 weeks until our animation arts classes start back, and until then we have been set a small 2 week project; We will all complete a short animation and they’ll be combined into one film at the end, similarly to the exquisite corpse task we did in toolkits 2.
The objective is to complete a 5 to 10 second animation following the theme ‘observations of irrational relations between human and nature’; In teams of 2, we have to discuss our ideas and come up with two separate animations. Once we’ve finished the animations, we will swap with each other and add sounds to each other’s work,
The first thing we had to do was to brainstorm rough ideas; I created a mind map for this, to get what I was thinking down somewhere.
I followed this up with some drawings to capture some of these rough ideas;
The general idea is to have a businessman chicken enjoying a human arm on his lunch break, In a similar fashion to the way a lot of us go to fast food restaurants and eat meat during our breaks. Here is the logline;
‘Have you ever gone for a quick piece of chicken on your break from work? well in this universe, the chickens bite back’
One of our challenges was to try and be experimental with the medium we chose to animate with; I couldn’t think of many different techniques since I don’t know how to 3D animate and can’t learn during our time frame, and I don’t have the equipment for stop motion, but after some discussion with the teacher I came up with a fun idea; to create a collage-esque background, filled with both my own pictures, artwork and things from the internet, and a 2D animated chicken. I feel that this will make for an interesting looking end result, so I’m going to try it.
With my background done, I’m ready to animate my chicken. I look forward to finishing this animation and seeing people’s reactions to it.