Slight change and style update

I have decided I want the animation to be strongly influenced by side-scrolling games. I'd like to be all in one camera shot as well.

Another Style Example

I have always like the style of Aardman's characters such as Wallace and Gromit and would like to design the characters to be somewhat like theirs.

Some more animation style precedents:
Pythagosaurus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5cab4NMHsY

Monty Pythons Flying Circus animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA973KVWyr4

Idea Narration

I settled on the idea of having Humpty Dumpty being a bad guy. This would mean that with his inevitabl;e demise the audience wouldn't feel bad that he couldn't be fixed.

I went with this from my second brainstorm.

Idea changed again

After going back to my story again, I didn't really like it as much as I thought so I went back to the brainstorming stage.

Here's the storm of brains:

The inspiration for this second brainstorm came when I read this online: 

"One [theory] advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and [a king] who was defeated [in battle]."

Storyboard

Week 3 - Exercises

Here is what I did in class today documented in screenshots:

First of all I got a storyboard from google then cut it up into segments.

Then I animatic-ed it

Adding markers.

Deleted everything and made a shape layer.

Then I created a freeform scribble path for the shape to follow.

This screen shows all the editable parts of the path.

From here I'm playing with different ways to mask things (and also applying some styles near the end).

Another variation on the idea

Bungee Dumpty - OR - Humpty Bungee

Open on man sitting on a wall - swinging his legs - looking like he is unsure (figuratively sitting on a wall)

leans forwards and jumps/falls off

we see he is actually bungee jumping and enjoying it - as in it is a great fall - happy/excited music

2 horses in a field with riders look up at the sky (at him off falling offscreen)

back to him - rope tenses

man splits in half and lands on the ground in front of the horses - says "ouch"

the horses look at the body halves then at each other - one shrugs

(meanwhile maybe a pool of blood is getting bigger? - Don't know how far I want to take the gore :P )

horses look back at the body

End.