Animation: 3 Minute Film

Synopsis

Charlie is a normal 10 year old boy and living inside him are The Antibodies. The Antibodies protect and control Charlie's body. Each Antibody has a department they control and in charge of it all is Brain a highly intelligent Antibody who controls the brain computer.
After Charlie is ordered to bed by his mother the Antibodies clock off for the day and head to their beds, meanwhile outside on Charlie's shoulder two virus, Cold and Flu sneak into Charlie's Body. while inside they heat up the body to their liking and install a virus onto the brain computer. then run about changing settings and eating the food in the stomach. hearing all the commotion outside Brain checks out the noise only to find the mess the viruses have left. after fixing all the problems he deals with the viruses themselves with a little help from the largest antibody Muscle they flush out the viruses from the body via the exit hole.

Research

Story

When I was young I used to believe that little people lived inside me working away to help me move and think. This was why I loved reading The Numskulls which was in the Beano. The Numskulls where representations of the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) and lived inside the head of a boy Edd. In every story something would happen to Edd which effected the Numskull or something would happen to the Numskulls which effected Edd.

Characters

When I was designing what the characters would look like I remembered the Mr Men, each character of the Mr Men has a name that matches their look and personality which makes it easier for the viewer to recognize who they are fairly quickly. I wanted to use this aspect in my animation using what body part they control to determine how they look and their names.

As well as Mr Men I remembered about Poddington Peas which uses the same system of recognition matching their looks, names and personalities

I thought that the Virus from the Doctor Mario video game were a good reference to start from they represented different viruses and looked like the type of style i wanted to use.

This is a diagram of a flu virus i wanted to use what the actual viruses looked like.

This is a cold virus I liked the spikes as it makes it look like snot and more virus like. I used this in the final design of the Cold character.

Designs

Original

This was the first drawing I did

I designed these characters to represent different body areas. These were the original designs but I never went with them and redesigned them to be easier to animate.

I designed this character to represent the brain, I gave him a large head to make him look brainy and made him dress like a geek/nerd to enhance this look I also gave him a badge to give him a managerial look.

I designed this character to represent the muscles. As he works in the muscle department I made his muscular and gave him multiple arms.

This was an extra character and was designed to represent the stomach. I made him obese because he works with food. I also gave him a hard hat because the stomach is a factory.

Another extra character which was to represent the leg department. I made him look sporty and fit as he makes Charlie move.

A original design of Cold. I designed him to look quite mean and game him pointy shoes and antennas.

New

All these characters were designed to look simple for easier animating and each character was designed with one of their features enhanced. The body part which is enhanced is the same as where they work e.g. the character working in the nose department has a large nose.

Extras

These are the designs I did before I rewrote the script and edited out the extra characters. They were all designed for different areas of the body.

This is a character board of some more of the extra characters. There is the nose Antibody, the eyes Antibody who I gave big glasses, the mouth Antibody who has a large mouth and the heart Antibody who has a heart on her chest.

Represents the ears he is the only one with ears and I made them big to stand out.

A original sketch of flu he has a cell lining around him which is a cell wall and has the spikes from the actual flu virus.

I redesigned the original legs character and gave him a simpler look and gave him long legs.

Represents the nose department. His nose is large to tell the viewer he works in the nose department.

A very quick sketch of the viruses

more designs of extras.

Final Designs

Brain character sheet. I gave Brain a large head to strengthen the fact he is smart and I gave him a tie to give him a management look.

I based Charlie on me when I was younger. I loved dinosaurs so I designed him wearing dinosaur slippers and dinosaur pajamas

Cold was based on the cold virus. He has the tentacles the cold virus has and made him a similar colour. - I kept the general look of the original Flu character but incorporated Cold into him, as I really liked the way Cold came out.