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Rhyme text: Nueva Std

• Humpty Dumpty on the mailbox
• All the king's horses on the Vet building

Start credits: [ank]*

• Humpty Dumpty
• By Jane Owen
• 12048645

Ending credits: Adobe Garamond Pro

• THE END
• Characters:
• -The dog as Humpty Dumpty
• -The cat as the cause of danger

• Music:
• -Guitar flute and string- Moby

• Sound Effects:
• Massey Server:
• -Cat1.wav
• -dog growling and barking.mp3
• -hurt dog.wav

• -Clock ticking.wma- Jane Owen

• Illustration:
• Jane Owen

• Animation:
• Jane Owen

Character Movements

Leg Movements:

Dog Fallen Over (Hit By Car)

Dog Missing A Leg:

Story Board

Story Board:

Story Board Explanation:

Characters and Things With Colour

Dog:

 Cat:

OR

 Robber:

The Mailbox:

The House

The Car

Improving Characters: part 1

With guidance from the Tutor, I came to the conclusion that my cat character needed to be a fierce and scary looking cat- to take the place of an issue, or an attack that occurred in the civil war- which is where this nursery rhyme comes from.
So I came up with this one...


Evil Cat

                                 
                               
In Colour:

I then thought to have the intruder as a robber instead of a cat, as a robber seems more threatening and a natural instinct for a guard dog to protect it's home. I'm liking the second man so far.
I will add colour and thick outlines to him and then see what he looks like.


 Robber

In Colour:

Character Designs

Here are some sketches of my characters I will be using for my animation. I will add more detail, character and colour soon.

                                                                          The Dog:

                                                                         The Cat:

The Mailbox

                                                                      The House

Simple Scene

Here I have put some of the above characters/objects together to see what it's going to look like. I might have a play with it, just to develop it a bit more. Suggestions would be very much appreciated :)

Animation Idea/Theme

Humpty Dumpty:
Breaking the Nursery Rhyme down, so I can get a better idea of what it means.

Humpty Dumpty: Was an important, protecting object used in War.
Sat on a wall: Guarding it's place, protecting it's people
Had a great fall: Problem, failure, injury, misjudgment, explosion
All the king's horses and all the kings men: Took a lot of effort, attempted to fix, hope, too heavy
Couldn't put Humpty together again: Not fixable, hope is lost, will never be the same again.

A mid day setting in a quite small town. A nice little house with a guard dog sitting at the door step (protector, as Humpty Dumpty). A cat walks past and starts marking it's territory on the guard dog's lawn. The dog then jumps up and chases the cat across the road (protecting it's grounds).The dog is injured and get's one of his legs amputated (injury, tried to fix him). The dog lives, just not in the same condition ("couldn't put Humpty together again").


Inspiration:

Mr Bean Cartoon Series
Toothache

Mr Bean Cartoon Series
Teddy's Birthday

Some Animation Inspiration

Here are some really nice examples of animation that I found on Vimeo and YouTube.


From: Steven Wilson
The Raven That Refused To Sing.

From: Dina Velikovskaya
My Strange Grandfather

From: The Fat Team
Fat
http://vimeo.com/26941134



From: James Lancett
Overcast
http://vimeo.com/24879869



From: GKCFF
Paper War
http://vimeo.com/56136687

Nursery Rhymes and Their Meanings

Ring o Rosies:

Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tisshoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.

Connections to the Bubonic Plaque in London in 1665, or even before when the first Plaque hit England in the 1300's.
A rosy red rash on the skin in the shape of a ring was one of the symptoms of the Plaque.
Pockets and pouches were filled with sweet smelling herbs or posies, which were carried due to the belief that the Plaque was transmitted by bad smells.
Violent sneezing was another symptom.
In ignoring the above, this rhyme was/and still is sung by little children who dance in a circle and have fun.
It seems so wrong!

Humpty Dumpty:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Used in the fifteenth Century England, for describing someone who was obese.
Humpty Dumpty was a large cannon. It was used during the English Civil War (1642-1649) in the Siege of Colchestor (13 Jun 1648 - 27 Aug 1648).
Placed on the wall next to St Mary's Church.
The royalist fort within the walls of St Mary's Church was blown to pieces, leaving their main cannon- Humpty Dumpty -destroyed with it.
They tried to move the cannon to another part of the wall, but it was just too heavy.
As a child, I always thought it was just about an egg that had fallen and cracked, and it couldn't be fixed. This just shows how imagery has a strong impact on a story line and can change it's point of view very easily.

Little Miss Muffet:

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey
Along cam a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

There are a few different theories of this rhyme, but this one seems a little bit more real.
The little girl, Little Miss Muffet, is said to be based around the Roman Catholic Mary, Queen of Scott, and the spider was the Scottish Religious informer John Knox who frightened her away.

Jack and Jill:

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

Jack and Jill refer to King Louis XVI - Jack -who was beheaded (lost his crown) followed by his Queen Marie Antoinette - Jill - (who came tumbling after).The words and lyrics to the Jack and Jill rhyme were made more acceptable as a story for children by providing a happy ending. The actual beheading occurred during the Reign of Terror in 1793.

Oranges and Lemons:

Oranges and Lemons,
Say the bells of St Clement's.
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St Martin's.

This rhyme is about a prison for both criminals and debtors, hence the part "You owe me". Executions were the in thing to watch. Everyone gathered to watch criminals being slaughtered. The bells tolled each morning of the executions.

Animation Research

Animation:
The rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement.
Animation can be made with either hand rendered art, computer generated imagery, or three-dimensional objects, eg, puppets or clay figures, or a combination of techniques.


Traditional Animation:

Full Animation:
Refers to the process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films, which regularly use detailed drawings and plausible movement.
Limited Animation:
Involves the use of less detailed and/or more stylized drawings and methods of movement. Can be used as a method of stylized artistic expression.
Rotoscoping Animation:
Is a technique, patented by Max Fleischer in 1917, where animators trace live-action movement, frame by frame. The source film can be directly copied from actors' outlines into animated drawings.
Live-action/Animation:
Is a technique, when combining hand-drawn characters into live action shots.


Stop Motion:

Puppet Animation:
Involves stop-motion puppet figures interacting with each other in a constructed environment, in contrast to the real world interaction in model animation.
Puppetoon:
Created using techniques developed by George Pal, are puppet-animated films which typically use a different version of a puppet for different frames, rather than simply manipulating one existing puppet.
Clay Animation:
Just like Puppet Animation but with clay figures.


Computer Animation:

2D Animation:
This is created and/or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics or created and edited using 2D vector graphics.
3D Animation:
Is digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator. The animator starts by creating an external 3D mesh to manipulate. A mesh is a geometric configuration that gives the visual appearance of form to a 3D object or 3D environment.