The making of an idea

I'm sorry for all the spelling errors. My computer doesn't have an English spelling check.


I got my inspiration from something typical dutch (I haven’t seen in anywehere else). Almost every house has in their toilets and bathrooms tiles on the wall. And some of those tiles have a handpainted life lesson on it that gives you something to think about when you’re in that room. Those tiles were sometimes even made of real Dutch porcelain (blue/white Delfts blauw). I was thinking about them and that it’s a shame they’re almost disapeared now. I also thought that these sayings would make nice subjects and/or titles for an animation.

"No one has the guide of the concert of life."

The idea for a series is born. There are a lot of sayings/life lessons you can use for this. One saying for each animation episode. I want the episodes to be fast, round about 1 or 2 minutes each. This way the production time is short, more fun to make and I’m able to do more than 1 animation. It is also nice for broadcasters because the animations are short and easy to fit somewhere in their program. I think this is a huge plus for them.

I have descided that I want to use this idea for children. I always like to make animations for children because you really can use your imagination. They are also the biggest viewers group for television so this makes it attractive for television channels. Though there are many children shows for television for me to compete with it’s also a reason to make this serie special and different from all the excisting series.

The series has also an educational aspect. The life lessons, that are also the titles of the episodes, are explained in the animation. Although the children might not understand the titles, they will understand the animation and what it’s trying to tell, in a fun way.


Technique
Combining reality with fantasy. Something that looks real and at the same time could never be. Maybe by using life action backgrounds and objects combined with animated characters. This way it looks like those 2D characters live in our world (the closest example I could think of are the animations of the music group Gorillaz and who framed roger rabbit, however my style would be completely different)

Character
For now the main character is based on a girl I saw once when I was working in a toy store. She had huge round red glasses that made her eyes bigger, 2 ponytails and fluffy blond hair. This girl looked a bit ugly but so adorable. My character has to have the same ugly but adorable feeling.
She is 4 years old. Her character is stubborn, loud and cheeky. She thinks she’s smarter than her mother and want’s no help of her parents. However she has a lot to learn and that is what she’s going to do in the series, the hard way. And it looks like she won’t ever learn.