Development of characters and background:

Background:

This is the stuff that I need to make my background:

To make my background, I cut a box in half to make the box look like what it does on the image that is next to this text. Then, I chopped the edge of the box off to make it look a bit more smarter. Went on my laptop and printed off a photo of trees to put around the sides of the box so I printed off 5 copies of the image, but it turns out I only needed 3 and a half. Also I printed of an image of grass and only printed off 2 copies of that. I glued these to the box and this is my background (the picture below):

Characters:

In my animation, needed two characters, a dog (Dylan) and a man (Bob). Also I needed two bushes for Dylan to hide behind.

 This is how I did it:

This is what I needed to make my characters, Pipe cleaners and plaster scene. I made the pipe cleaners into a man and dog shape so I was able to use the outlines to make my person and dog. Also, the pipe cleaners will allow me to move the person and dog. Then, I put the plaster scene over the Pipe cleaners making them look like a human and dog. I also added a tail onto the human to help him be balanced. This is what the characters looked like when they were finished (the image below): 

Then, I flattered out a blob of  green and shaped it into a blush shape. Then, I made sure that Dylan could hide behind it. 
This is what it looks like: 

This is what my people looks like with the background:

New storyboard and resources needed:

Storyboard:

This is the storyboard the shows the plan of my animation in image form.



In the first box it shows, Bob taking Dylan for a walk through a park. There will be trees in the background and grass on the floor to show that he is walking him through a park. 
In the second box it shows, Dylan running off when Bob isn't watching. The arrow shows the path that Dylan will be taking. Bob also starts to look for his dog and starts to get worried. 
In the third box it shows, Bob grows more and more worried for Dylan's safety and starts to call out his name. Meanwhile, Dylan is hidden behind a bush. The arrow shows the path that he takes to gets from one bush to another. 
In the final box it shows, Dylan running to his owner and jumping up on him. Bob is happy because Dylan is back safe and sound. 

Resources that I will need:

• Half a box
• Pipe cleaners
• Plaster scene
• 2 photos (Trees and grass)
• Hue Camera

My new idea:

As I started to make my original animation idea, I found it hard to do so I decide to change my idea into a simpler and short idea. My new idea is a man called Bob taking his dog, Dylan, for a walk but the dog is off its leader so it runs away. Bob starts to look for him. Meanwhile, Dylan is hidden behind the bushes and is hiding from his owner. Bob starts to get worried about what's happened to Dylan and starts to shout his name. Suddenly out of the blue Dylan appears and barks at his owner.

Storyboard and Resources:

Storyboard:
This is my storyboard:

My storyboard shows what is going to happen in my animation in photo form.

In the first box it shows Fred the prankster throwing a cream pie at the random people.

In the second box, it shows when Fred meets Lucy the other prankster in town. They argue and argue until they decide to have a competition to agree on who is the best prankster in town. 

The third and four box shows Fred and Lily pranking people.

The fifth they meet again but find that they are just as good as each other at pranking and start arguing.

In the sixth and final box they find that they are falling in love and end the animation hold hands and walking off the screen.  

Resources:

1. Some plaster scene
2. Paper (for background)
3. pencil and colouring pencils
4. Cardboard box
5. Hue camera 

Final idea

I decide to go with my third, coming up with my own animation that is made out of lego. The animation with be able a prankster that pranks people for fun in the village that he lives in but he soon meets his match who is a female version of him. They start to have a pranking war to see who's the best. They find that they can't out prank each other and find themselves falling in love.
Sounds:
I will then us silent movie music in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBScCnRNbck 

My 3 ideas:

My 3 ideas of my animation: 
For my first animation I might do is a scene out of a scene in a movie but in plaster scene or lego. But I'm not sure what scene or movie to do it from. Like someone did for harry potter:

Also for the hobbit:

For my second idea, I might do a music video to a part of the song. I might an animation based off the song Space Oddity by David Bowie. 

It will be about a spaceman that has just landed on the moon but he is lonely and misses earth. The animation will so show the sadness that the spaceman feels that he's all alone.  

For my third idea, I could completely make up my own animation with my own characters and do a little scene with them in. The animation will be made out of plaster-scene. With a drawn background.

A bit like the videos I have been watching:

Research

Research:
I didn't really know what I was going to do for my animation, all I knew was take that I wanted to do a model animation. But I didn't know what materials to use. So I decided to look on youtube and look at the animations online to give me some ideas. I found out this you can make animations for movie sense and music video. But firstly, I search up the ten ten best animated music videos.

I decided to look at famous TV show that were made by clay.
Wallace and Gromit: