My first idea for my third year project is taking a scene from a short fantasy novelette i wrote called The Reluctant Hero. I would probably want to do this in 2D animation i think. While this would be fun for me and hopefully for others it could potentially be a bit bad as it would not be a complete story and would only be a scene from an overarching plot, so could potentially not make for a perfect final major project.
I have another idea which involves the Tree of Life. It would be a visual animation where the narrative would be a suggested more abstract thing, much more of a spectacle style as apposed to hero's journey style. The animation would involve a tree (the Tree of Life) sprouting and then over its growth showing different bits of history starting with things to do with dinosaurs then early man then so on and so forth until the tree withers (could use the fact that the tree looks a bit like a mushroom cloud as a thing) then after it withers and dies the animation would end with a sapling sprouting.
This next idea actually came to me as a potential for a computer game. In my idea as a game it would be an RPG where the player character would be a person who loves the mexican wrestling Luchador. They end up via a series of events being transported to a Lucha world (partially inspired by an old animation i used to watch as a child) The player character while being a normal person there love of Luchador, there fighting spirit and a fun cast of characters would help them rise to the top and maybe even topple some sort of dark lord of Luchador. The game would be a funny game with a distinctive cartoon'y art style. I realised this idea could also be adapted into an animation of sorts maybe being a trailer style thing for that concept or maybe almost an intro to it as if it were a show, either way it would be 2D and probably be an exaggerated cartoon'y art style as i had imagined the game.
The next idea on my mind is a spin off of a show idea me and another student had developed. This animation would also be 2D and has a distinctive cartoon'y style and the actual animation itself would take place in the multiverse that is policed by the DPD (Dimensional Police Department) the story would take place separate from the actual show idea (which centers around the DPD) but could include them and maybe include other characters we have fleshed out. Maybe even a prequel short of the character relationships before the time frame of the show.
This idea is much more of a concept that i have yet to develop or know if i wish to develop it. In fact it simply came from me thinking the phrase time flies. That then got me thinking that the phrase time flies would be a great name for a short or show about a pair of time traveling flies.
This idea is one i cooked up a few years ago that i have been itching to use for something, my idea for it could be a bit too big to do in a short animation though. The idea is of multiple cliche protagonists from popular genre movies all converging in a diner. (characters such as grizzled ex cop turned private detective, comically inept loverboy, alien abductee escaping from the aliens and now questioning everything they once knew, sports person who is rising up to try and defeat their rivel in a series of montage fueled training sessions, etc) then half way through all their "separate films" something shocking happens, maybe a robber bursts in and holds them all at gun point, maybe there is some sort of world ending cataclysm and all their stories are interrupted.
This idea came from something i like to do, and it is titled I Looked up in the sky: A brief trek outside a box. It would be a more visual piece though could really go any way. It would be a story of someone going around in town doing unusual things and noticing that no one pays any attention, and tries to question what is normal and what normal even means. I see it animated in a slightly Doctor Suess esq style.
Here is an idea that was actually inspired by another short 3D animation. The idea is of someone in some really seemingly interesting job who has lost all pleasure in it and it would probably be a brief story of them refinding their interest in their job. It would be called Just a day Job and the job they would be doing would be either some sort of space ship pilot or super hero or something that most people would consider a very exiting job.
Another idea i have is one that i have already written a script for and initially came to me in a burst of random animation thought seemingly. It is a simple animation with a fatherly kids show esq voice over about a ball who wants to fly. It seems rather innocent and nice but a strange crow ends up interrupting the normal flow of the story via attacking and driving away all the supporting characters and eventually attacking (and seemingly murdering) the voice over. the characters would be 2D but i think all the backgrounds would be modeled in 3D, similar to the Amazing Adventures of Gumball (i think that's what its called) on cartoon network.
Also when reading through old mythology with my girlfreind (she has a lot of old mythology books) i came across a few odd stories that i thought would suit for a short animation, that however needs further exploration as of yet.
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