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Going Live 2018

Part of our course involves working to a client brief. This year, our client is Beano Studios in Dundee and they've asked us to take one of their old IPs and create a 30 second short film. We were split into 4 groups of 3 and of the four characters provided, our group decided to work with a character called Ping, the Elastic Man. This character had a very small run in the Beano comic and was virtually a blank canvas so we thought with him, we had the most potential.

We started drafting up some rough ideas over the next couple of ideas, thinking both about the narrative and how we could modernise this character. We also briefly talked about how we would animate this short film but haven't been able to come to a solid conclusion yet.

We decided to give Ping a sidekick so that he had someone to bounce off of. We also wanted this sidekick to be a contrast to Ping who we had decided was a fun-loving friendly guy. Anna immediately came up with some great sketches of a ferret and we decided to roll with it.

After today's class we wanted to solidify the narrative more in minds as we knew who out characters were and took out a pile of post-its to lay everything out. This also gave us the chance to move things around if we weren't happy.






I really loved working this way and I'm really happy with how well the group is communicating, able to say what we like and don't like about certain ideas.

I think our next concern will be timelines as well as how this animation will look in the final piece.
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