Animatic

Script

Downtown, New York, in my office, it was raining cats and dogs. I was working on a case, when a letter dropped through the door. It was a lead on my new suspect, so i headed off to investigate.
I arrived at her mansion and i couldn't even touch her with a forty foot pole.
I asked her, "why the long face? cat got your tongue?"
She knew i was pulling her leg and burst into tears.
"No need to cry over spilt milk," I said, "I'm all ears so spill the beans."
By the time I was finished I realized I was barking up the wrong tree so I carried on.
I decided to go see the guy she mentioned so I haled a cab and did some back seat driving. This is going to be a piece of cake I thought.
Eventually he told me the whole cock and bull story, but even then it smelt fishy. He seemed to have have a chip on his shoulder, so i told him to hold his horses. Even though I didn't have enough evidence to haul him away, I felt he was all bark and no bit, but I wasn't going to beat about the bush, so I said I would keep an eye on him. I still had a gut feeling about this guy, but I thought let sleeping dogs lie and headed back to my office. Tomorrow will be another another investigating day.

Simplified Character Redesign

Illustrations

I've been looking at a variety of illustrators work that have a simple style to them that i can adapt to go with my story.

Saul Steinberg





Serge Bloch





Elena Odriozola



Her illustrations are also very simple, the bodies are like square blocks with limbs sticking out and their faces do not have extreme expressions.



A. Richard Allen

His work is much more simplified the arms and leg shaped almost like a ling triangle, head and face shape is not overly complicated either.





Tony Diterlizzi



I really liked his work, even though the story is about bugs the characters are drawn similar to fashion illustration, tall, slim, elongated.

Mood Board

Fashion, Films, Animation and Style in the 1930s

Terry Gilliam

His animations are daring and creative, the simple movement of the characters are able to perform humorous actions that would not be realistically possible. The sceneries are flat with bold colours and not too over crowded with things. His animations take humor to the point where anything is possible.

Character

Name: Peter Spyalot
Age: 32
Height: 5'10"
Occupation: Private Detective
Status: Single
Character: Devotes his life to catching criminals, smokes way too much and has a habit of finding girls that fall in love with him, which he doesn't have time for. Workaholic, tries hard not to harm people, however difficult it may be. Some find him quite arrogant, he calls it confidence.



Name: Candy Golddigger
Age: 26
Height: 6' (with heels)
Occupation: Spending Cash
Status: Married
Character: Lives in her own dream world of sparkle, glamour and fur coats. Quite uptight, way too good to be associated with the likes of you. Has an amazing ability to spend money in record timing, on the most expensive of jewellery and clothes.



Name: Rob Abank
Age: 45
Height: 5'8"
Occupation: Gang Leader
Status: Widowed
Character: Cuban cigars are his best friend, closley followed by scotch on the rocks and a few doughnuts. Has many willing to do his dirty work, for fear of their legs being broken by his drones. Extremely selfish until it comes to his dog, who he'd do anything for.

Character Development

I researched and studied fashion illustration from the 1930s to help my character design progress.

I've been looking at animations and films that have taken things literally for humour. I decided to look at Tex Avery's animation of tomorrow taken everyday problems and sorting them out literally.