IM BACK - new brief

hello bloggers, I'm back, its been a while

I haven't blogged in, well, 4 months, as i've been on holiday and got lazy, but now I'm getting back to my usual self sitting in front of the computer attempting even harder 3D work.
Second year has begun and so here goes brief for this term...

The task is to Design, build and animate a model of a complex Bipedal Robot that can walk trip, slip and fall. It has to be at least 1 minute long.
Basically a Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin type sketch but fully animated, the example given was a man slipping on a banana peel, but we can create anything we like as long as its relative.

This was written on the brief about how we should go about it, from Charlie Chaplin's POV.


"Silent Comedy… Charlie Chaplin once explained that there are two ways to film the old guy-slips-on-a-banana-peel joke. The first, unfunny, way goes like this: Cut to the guy walking, oblivious. Cut to the banana peel, lying in wait. Then cut to a wide shot of the guy approaching the banana peel. Cut to a close-up of the banana peel, just as the guy's foot hits it. Cut back to the wide shot, as the guy slips on the peel and lands on his rear end, which, as everyone knows from cartoons, is the funniest part of the human body and one that registers no real pain.

The second, funnier way to film that same sequence is as follows: Cut to the guy, walking. Cut to the banana peel, lying in wait. Then cut to a wide shot of the guy approaching the banana peel. Cut to a close-up of the banana peel, just as the guy's foot almost hits it. Cut back to the wide shot, as the guy deftly steps over the banana peel, smiling smugly . . . and falls into an open manhole…
Get the difference?"

So from this, I realise that the obvious is way too boring and predictable, and over the next few weeks i will be coming up with, hopefully, some decent ideas for an exciting and unpredictable slap stick animated scene, good times.

FIRST BLOG AS SECOND YEAR OVER.