Year 3 - Initial Ideas

For my first idea I have been thinking about creating an animation short of 'play time' with a younger child. I got this idea from watching my little cousin running around and playing with objects that aren't intended to play with. What I like about this was trying to see these objects through the child's perspective and this is what I would like to do with the animation. I would like to have shots showing the child in their own world, for example when climbing up the stairs from their perspective they're climbing up the side of a mountain. I would try to think of several different situations in which a child plays in their own world and cut back from the perspective of what is really happening, and what is happening in the child's mind. I feel as if I could work in different aspects of comedy throughout this animation as there can be so many different possibilities of situations from both real life examples and just using my imagination like a child would. 

For the style of this animation I would like to use a combination of different styles for the different perspectives throughout. 

Example 1 - The Boss Baby

The other idea that I am fond of is creating an animation about a group of animals going to university, but this animation would be solely based around the student house. I would have 4 main character, all different types of animals that can be used to fit into stereotypes, or be used in opposite for comedic effect. For example having a pig character that has OCD and needs to keep everything clean. Having a hyper tortoise, or having a skunk that smells for not so obvious reasons. For the house I was thinking of having different rooms as different habitats to meet the animals needs that live in that room, such as the different towns in "Zootopia". I feel as if this could work really well using different style techniques to create a house that will fit the animals needs. The main aim of this will be comedy, having the characters also fitting common student stereotypes hopefully making it relatable to students.

For the character design I was thinking of keeping the animals fairly simple so I have more time to create the world that will be within the house. 

Character design reference