Another animatic

[Update 9 Feb] The second rough animatic of an episode. This one changed a bit in the end. The first ten seconds are introduction music. I don't put a lot of effort when I'm drawing my storyboards. It's just a very quick process. I keep updating this. For some reason youtube makes everything lighter and uglier.
Also checked out a house were we can shoot the animation and it's great!

Children making proverbs

Look what I've found on the internet:

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.

Better to be safe than....................Punch a 5th grader
Strike while the .........................Bug is close
It's always darkest before............... Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of..........Termites
You can lead a horse to water but........how?
Don't bite the hand that................. looks dirty
No news is................................impossible
A miss is as good as a...................Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new............math
If you lie down with dogs, you'll.........stink in the morning
Love all, trust..........................me
The pen is mightier than the..............pigs
An idle mind is..........................The best way to relax
Where there's smoke there's...............pollution
Happy the bride who.......................gets all the presents
A penny saved is..........................not much
Two's company, three's....................the Musketeers
Don't put off till tomorrow what..........you put on to go to bed
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.......you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as......................Stevie Wonder
Children should be seen and not...........spanked or grounded
If at first you don't succeed.............get new batteries
You get out of something what you.........see pictured on the box
When the blind leadeth the blind..........get out of the way
Better late than.........................pregnant.

Animatic 1

[Update 5 Feb] The first rough animatic of one episode. The first ten seconds are introduction music. I don't put a lot of effort when I'm drawing my storyboards. It's just a very quick process. I keep updating this. For some reason youtube makes everything lighter and uglier.

Team

This project is quite big and difficult to make. I’m happy that some people want to help me realizing this animation and hereby I introduce the wonderful team behind the animation:

Animator & Director: Nicole Volbeda
Producer & Camera: Patricia Delso
Scriptwriter: Jonathan Baracclough
Music for the title: Alfons Veldhuis
Sound: ???

I still need someone that can do the sound in every episode. Music, background, folly etc and if you are interested or know someone that would be, please contact me: n.volbeda@gmail.com

Critical Study

I also need to write a critical study about my practise. This is what I've come up with and I could need some help with resources. So if you know something that has to do with this stuff (a name, book, show, anything) please let me know ^_^

The main topic of my studio research is that I want to know how children think and how far I can stretch the limits creating an animation that’s nasty but still is at the same time fun and harmless for children. My end result is a mixed media animation series suitable for children on this topic.
I’m interested in this particular theme because I find the whole macabre side in humans interesting and it’s fascinating that we are capable of doing things that are horrible. That combined with my love for kids which have no sense of right and wrong is the reason why I came to this project. In this case I take the villain out and give him his own show.
The theoretical area’s I’m going to explore are social and psychological and maybe also cultural. Social because the medium television is social and psychological because I’m going to dig deeper in thoughts of people. I’ve also come across some cultural differences about how to handle children between the Netherlands and the U.K. Some stuff in the Netherlands is allowed for children to see while in the U.K it would be banned from television.
My resources are people that have the same philosophy as me like the Dutch people of ‘villa achterwerk’, Josh Whedon and some philosophers which names I never remember. They share the same vision as me; that not everything has to be sweet especially the stuff for children. I give the bad and horrible example with my animation, an example how children shouldn’t behave (which still is an indirect lesson to children). It’s a celebration about nasty children.

Scripts

After trying to write the episodes myself I got totally stuck. There were so many details to think of so many problems I couldn’t solve that I’ve decided I wanted a scriptwriter to help me.

During one of the Napier meetings I’ve met scriptwriter Jonathan Baracclough. After explaining my project and the whole idea behind it he wrote some fantastic episodes. You can read the first three episodes here, they’re not in order and some small alterations are made to adapt it into an animation.

[update 10 feb] 4th script added. The links are broken and I will find a way to fix them soon.

1. Know your enemy. written by Jonathan Baracclough
2. The squeeky wheel gets the grease. written by Jonathan Baracclough
3. To the victor go the spoils. written by Jonathan Baracclough
4. Say something nice or nothing at all. written by Jonathan Baracclough