Proposal

Context of practice 2 research proposal

Question: How animated characters and creatures represent specific roles and parts of film and video.

Critical reflection:

Certain character types represent unique characteristics and features in a film or story that are defined by the personality traits of the creature or animal they are designs as in the plot. Why are they this specific creature and what are the features that best suit them, all the elements of design that make up the character and a definitive reason for the unique designs. Nicolas Marlet creates unique designs that harbor characters which can describe complete personalities without the character posing, featuring an expression or speech. The development of the character personality is represented through all detail shown or described in the character design.

I am focusing on this because character production aimed at specific audiences or genres of film or video, fascinates me and is something I would like to progress in and develop my ability.

To imagine and create unique designs that are iconic and completely natural in terms of environmental based from the setting. Why the character is specifically set in an environment and acts the way they do through character design and how they feature important roles and expression on the plot, the design can be entirely based from their role and for a cause.

There could be many lists of character traits or character qualities. In fact, if you and I were each to make our own list of character traits it is likely that they would be somewhat different. Sometimes, different words might be used to describe the same character trait such as honesty and truthfulness, for example. Or your list might contain character traits that I didn’t think about and would have included if I had thought of them. It might be that one of us would include some things in our list that the other would not agree with. I might include intelligence in my list of character traits, but you might say that intelligence is not a character trait but an ability.

The character qualities are designed to describe the quality more fully and give illustrations of how it is demonstrated in life. These are valuable resources for those who wish to build good character qualities into their lives.

Relevant Subjects:
Character name, Goanna.
He is a large, blue monitor lizard who is musical, hungry, scheming, funny and sneaky. He is voiced by rapper and actor Tone-Loc.

Goanna quote: 'if i'm gonna eat somebody, it may as well be you...'

FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a 1992 Australian-American animated musical fantasy film, directed by Bill Kroyer.

Illustrated story of Crysta the fairy and her friend, who join forces to save magical Ferngully from destruction by Hexxus, the forest's ancient enemy. The story has now been made into a film, TFerngully Q the last rainforest' by 20th Century Fox, released in 1991.

A flamboyant British ostrich named Bradley, Bradley is an eccentric ostrich who assists Khumba in his adventure along with his best friend,Bradley is an eccentric ostrich who first appeared in the desert with his best friend, Mama V the wildebeest.

Website: http://khumba.wikia.com/wiki/Bradley

Khumba is a 2013 3D South African computer-animated comedy film directed and produced by Anthony Silverston, written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne.

Bradly Quote: 'I was ostracized. Oh, really now, Bradley.'

Scooby-Doo is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits.

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_(character)

Design:
Scooby is brown from head to toe with several distinctive black spots on his upper body and does not seem to have a melanistic mask. He is generally a quadruped but displays bipedal 'human' characteristics occasionally. Scooby also has opposable thumbs and can use his front paws like hands. He has a black nose and wears an off-yellow, diamond-shaped-tagged blue collar with an "SD" (his initials) and has four toes on each foot. Unlike other dogs, Scooby only has one pad on the sole of each of his feet (so that it was easier to draw in the Scooby-Doo Annuals). Scooby has a fully prehensile tail he can use to swing from or press buttons. Both his head and tail are malleable and useful as a communication aid or creating a distraction.

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day.

Nicolas "Nico" Marlet is a French-American animation artist, character designer and skilled drummer. He is well known for his character design work in the Dreamworks films Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, although early in his career he worked on Disney television shows such as TaleSpin and DuckTales. He also worked on an unproduced animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. His work has appeared in several "art of" books, including The Art of Kung Fu Panda, The Art of How to Train Your Dragon, The Art of Bee Movie, and his own limited edition sketchbook containing some of his personal works.

Nicolas Marlet has lent his unique talents as character designer to several Dreamworks' productions over the past 15 years including Over the Hedge, Kung Fu Panda, and most recently How to Train Your Dragon and his distinct work is hard to mistake. This limited 2nd edition sketchbook is a replica of his real sketchbook and is filled to the brim with dynamic characters from all walks of life.

Quote and website:
http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/nico-marlet.html

"The way Nico designs, he looks at the actual animal and tries to distill down what's there into something that works for the film," Zibach says. "Some of the rules we followed were actually his, like we don't stick necks straight up out of torsos and then put animal heads on the top or it just looks like a guy in a costume. Instead, we have the neck coming forward, so the head and neck and body are really one unit."