BA3b Collaborative Project Proposal Corey Macdonald and Sam Cybichowski Third Year Animation Norwich University of the Arts Overview and Inspiration When first considering an animated piece to pitch for the purposes of collaboration, we remembered an idea that had popped into our heads one day back in our first year, when we briefly visited an Argos store. Warehouse stores such as these are designed differently from other superstores, in which everything you may plan to buy is behind closed doors and all you have is a catalogue with pictures showing you the products. What interested us about this concept was that neither of us had seen behind these doors before to see how everything was organized and structured, and as a result neither of us really knew what actually happens behind those doors when someone orders an item for purchase and we would let our imaginations run wild in deciding for ourselves what we thought it could be. This lead to the fasc...
The Animatic is taking a little longer than planned, but this week I continued working on the character designs. Once we'd decided on the type of child we were going to work with, I went and designed a few outfits based on what I imagined a kid who watches 90's Saturday morning cartoons to look like, since that was my main inspiration for what I envisioned for the TV ad sequence. I intended to do some research into 'Care Bears' and other cartoons from that era. When designing the bear, I first went with quite a traditional one capable of standing on its hind legs, with tiny beady eyes. Of course I played around with a few other animals and costumes for it, and then tried something completely different just for fun - reducing the character to a literal circle and building cute elements into it. Later I made alterations based on the fact the story was now taking place in the 1950’s. Corey sent me a couple images of typical schoolchildren outfits for the t...
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