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Project Proposal To Make Dad Proud

To Make Dad Proud will be an adventure story that aims to show the character

development of the son as he progresses on his journey to carry on his fathers legacy as an

explorer. Even though the story will begin with him feeling a sense of loss without his father

there, I want the story to progress so that he learns more about himself as well as having a

surprise encounter at the end. I aim to produce this 2D animation in Flash and Photoshop

and for reference I will produce my own in order to gain accurate and realistic movements.

In terms of the style of my project, I would like to combine a cartoon style with realistic

movements as I feel that this style is one of my strengths and I would like to portray this. In

my production diary, I hope to gain knowledge into the different aspects of animation such

as styles, forms and context so that I can influence this into my own work. This project will

be created entirely by me so I will be in charge of everything.

As I aspire to become an animator, I would mainly like to focus more on the animation side

of this project so over the next 12 weeks, I would like to dedicate most of my time on this so

that I can successfully execute what I have learnt over the 3 years of my degree, into this

project. As well as gaining my own references to help with my animations, I will thoroughly

research other aspects of production too such as background designs, colour theory,

composition, perspective and concept art as this is another aspect of 2D that I particularly

enjoy and I hope to portray this in my final animation. By learning these skills, I feel that this

will be a valuable experience in the pre-production and production stages of the project as it

will give me a chance to learn more about the pipeline of creating a 2D animation and

create a good quality piece of work. Overall, for the hand-in I aim to prioritise the animation

and concept art (backgrounds, character designs etc) of my project as these are the

features that I will pay most attention too. Even though I want to convey a good narrative

for this animation, I am currently having problems in terms of how I can show this in the

limited time that we have. Ideally, I would like to animate numerous scenes that would

make his journey a challenge, although within the 2 minutes maximum, I dont think that

this will be manageable as I am working on my own. However, I will try to address this

before I start production.

Overall, I hope to produce a good quality piece of work that showcases my skills in 2D

animation and concept art and as I am working individually, I look forward to directing my

own project whilst learning about different aspects of creating an animation.