Digital Character Animation

Andrew’s Short Animation

Opening scene: Family room with hardwood floor, couch and table in the background, few lights, not to bright, square piece of fly/glue paper in the middle of the floor.

camera starts on zoom in of glue paper. toy mouse enters left screen and lands with a squeak.

slow pan out of the camera, getting a glimpse of entire room now.

Cat enters from left screen, with a oblivious, vacant stare, and clumsy, slow walk.

Cat passes by the mouse, then it catches his eye, he turns toward it, stares for a moment, eyes slowly widen, and gets the desire for the mouse.

close up shot of mouse.

close up shot of cat and his grin.

cat drops to the ground in a pouncing form, but due to his size, its clumsy and awkward.

tension is forming, close up on mouse again.

close up of cat in his pouncing pose.

Cat pounces and lands face first, the table and couch in the background shake with the impact, with his paw landing on the glue trap.

Cat lifts his head, not yet realizing what kind of predicament he is in yet, until he tries to lift his hand.

First he tries to lift his hand slowly with no avail, then harder and harder till the glue release and snaps back at him.

Cat lands on his bottom, background shakes again, picture frame falls off the wall.

mouse and trap have flown off screen, cat pursues.

off screen: racket, crashes heard, meowing from the cat. background shakes.

mouse flies from right screen to left screen.

cat pursues a moment later, jumping over couches and falling on his face, then getting up and keeping at it.

more off screen fighting. background shifting yet again.

mouse flies from left screen to center and lands with a squeak on the ground.

close up on mouse.

two paws slam down on the mouse.

close up on cat with deviate grin on his face, cat is considerable banged up with band aids and bandages.

cat stands up with glee.

Cat does an awkward scamper off screen.

Camera moves behind cats. Show cat moving off into the distance, grabbing for the mouse in his mouth, which stretches his lip.

Camera fades with cat trying to pull the toy mouse out of his mouth.

credits roll.

CHARACTER ANALYSES/BIO –
The points below will help you formulate who your character is and how they came to be that person.

Age: 5 (thats like 35 in cat years!)

Evolution/Life Cycle (relative to human?) walks slumped over, uses paws in way that people use hands.

Ethnicity: orange, brown, white, and black fur

Height: 2 feet tall

Weight : heavy for a cat, 30 lbs

Gender : male

Culture : american

Profession : schlemiel

Dreams : to get rewards, achievement

Beliefs : try hard until things look their bleakest

Food : mice, fish, meat

Weaknesses : clumsy, fat, doesn’t learn well

Goals/Ambition : try try try again

Obstacles : fly paper, sticky materials

Stereotype/Archetype : big, dumb animal

Sense of Humor : goofy, clumsy

Health : larger then normal cats

Family : owners

Values : as long as it is within reach, go for it

Environment (Env they feel uncomfortable in?) sunlight and his bed

Intelligence : not much, dumb

Education : learns through doing

Sex Life : lack there of

Idiosyncrasies : sleep, eat, acquire toy mouse

Need/Purpose : to give other hope

Nocturnal habits : sleeps

Body Structure : fat

Fears : dogs

Talent : walks upright for a cat

Self View : happy

Addictions : toy mice

Flaws : clumsy, awkward, large

concept: never give up.

premise: A cat’s attempt and struggle to retrieve a toy mouse.

1. A mouse is flung through the air and lands on fly paper.
2. A clumsy cat is just passing through when it happens upon the toy mouse.
3. The cat really wants the mouse.
4.The cat pounces, claws, swipes, picks, and does everything to try and get the mouse.
5.The cat throws a tantrum and the mouse gets flung off the ground but then gets stuck to the ceiling.
6.The cat breaks down and starts to weep, as just as all seems to be lost, the mouse falls into the cats hands.
7.The cat full of glee, puts the mouse in his mouth and prances away, and then realizes there is still glue on the mouse…

A clumsy cat is just passing through when it happens upon a toy mouse. The cat really wants the mouse. However, the mouse has been glued to the ground as part of a joke. The cat pounces, claws, swipes, picks, and does everything to try and get the mouse. The cat throws a tantrum and the mouse gets flung off the ground but then gets stuck to the ceiling. The cat breaks down and starts to weep, as just as all seems to be lost, the mouse falls into the cats hands.

A mole spends all day toiling underground. He spends all his time around roots, but one day he wants to venture to the surface. On his way he encounters hardships such as cave ins and giants insects. Just when everything looks the dimmest, a ray of moonlight strikes the mole. He makes it to the surface to see the tree from which he has spent his life around.