Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Progress on my 1-min trailer--the MOODBOARD

I am trying to learn more about animation as a process by making a 1-min trailer for a short-form cartoon project called CHONIE & BOS. Chonie is a vampy HS student cat who is dictating her "memoirs" to a beagle named Boswell...and in the process she begins to see how her sexy ways may be working against her, even with tomcats.

My collaborator is Sinead Walshe of Cork, Ireland. I had commissioned some studies of the four main characters, which she will tweak. But first she created a Moodboard--of images that "say" Chonie--for the background, which will remain static.

In turn, I did sort of a "word" moodboard of words that describe Chonie in the period the trailer will cover:

Girly
Messy
Boy crazy
Logo conscious
Music
Popular icons
You Tubey
Scattered
Fast zippy
Impulsive
Irreverent
Rule breaking
Sassy
Self-centered

We are trying to mesh our visions...