21/07/15 - New Character Design, Profile, Summary of Story, & Description of Genre

I drew up some new character design/sketches of the teacher for my animation. 

For this design I gave him a large torso with a figure that grows smaller/narrower as it reaches down to his feet. His posture is very straight and strong to match his physique.

I want him to look like he is gentle but stern when he is normal, but when he is enforcing something or someone did something wrong, his look changes to look quite scary or dominating and strict. 

I want to show a big contrast between the normal side and the strict, side of him marking a student with a fail. To do this I want to try to use extreme perspective with the teacher in a pose ready to mark a student with a fail, if that doesn't work I will try my best to replicate it.

I will be supporting this perspective with a strong pose and good line of action, I will work on that pose more soon, I just sketched out my idea to get a feel for how I want my animation to work.

For the environment I will be using illustrated backdrops, and the props will be his desk and chair, the exams he is marking and the fail stamp.

New Summary of Sequence:

A teacher is sitting at his desk in a classroom, hunched over and marking his students exams. Suddenly the teacher furrows his brow and the scene is cut to a shot of the teacher with a 'FAIL' stamp in his hand as he yells "You shall not pass!"

Character Profile:

Teachers name: Mr. Mann

Mr Mann is a big, strong man with a gentle nature but a strict side to it. When it comes to enforcing his teaching or marking a student with a pass or fail, he takes his job very seriously. When he marks his students with a pass, he is overjoyed with glee and happy that his student passed. Mr Mann takes pride when he knows his students are listening to him and learning. If he finds out a student hasn't been paying attention to his classes, his strict side emerges and he gives no mercy. He puts his everything into teaching his students to set them up for success, so when someone chooses to not listen and learn in his classes he gets mad.

Since I will be changing the genre to comedy, and the art will be quite stylized compared to the original which is film with a more serious note.

Comedy can be portrayed in an abstract or goofy looking art style in animation to enhance the show. With characters that can be animated quite freely and with little restrictions to the laws of physics, comedic animation can be enhanced. Taking examples from Warner Brothers animation where the characters sometimes completely ignore the laws of physics until they realize it, or are injured in ways that shouldn't be possible and then are fine the next moment, this allows for many situations to animate things that aren't possible in reality.