Tutorial and Ideas

In my tutorial with Simon we discussed some new ideas. Unfortunately, I had already started my storyboard which I'll be posting in my next blog post. We discussed the atmosphere of the animation. The mad scientist really reminded me a character who would be in a 20s-30s horror film, like Nosferatu for example. I then started thinking about the lab. In my concept designs I am going to redraw the lab equipment and especially the mind stealing machine. I want most of the lab equipment to be big and bulky and almost cartoonish. The machine will look like it is made out of copper and it'll have several dents in it to help make it look older than brand new. If it looks older, people will think that the Dr. Dinkelman has stolen peoples minds before and that it is a regular thing. 

I was also thinking of making the animation black and white. This will give the animation that dated feel and it will also help make the animation seem more sinister. When colour is taken away from a scene we are automatically intrigued because there's always a reason why the creator has done this. 

Sound will also be important. When the character moves, he will make a bone cracking sound. I will make this sound by crushing uncooked pasta in my mouth.  

Also, instead of the explanation marks appearing all over the world I could animate a comic strip style montage of people in pain, holding their heads.