First Idea

The first idea i came up with was a stop motion animation, it was to focus on 'the meaning of life'. The character would be born, then start a typical life of growing up at school, making friends, having jobs, growing old, whilst also including emotions such as love, hate, happiness, sadness, etc. I didn't want the animation to be told in a straight forward way, i wanted connotations to tell the story.

I gained inspiration from other animation stories. For example, this photo to the left shows how we are created by using a marker pen drawing. It gradually gets closer and closer to the belly button, where the baby is then born. The animation then moves onto paper, where they use paint to create different coloured backgrounds. I particularly like the idea of using a human body to create the animation, it makes it look more interesting and is definitely funner to watch. I also looked into other types of animation. I like the idea of using photos and placing them down one after another to make the images look like they are moving. As well as using lots of different objects such as; lego, buttons, crayons, pens, food, etc.