3rd April

Today I made a list of a few ideas for my story just to get the ideas out of my head and onto paper! One idea is -

1.child draws a cartoon character
2.it comes to life.
3.child plays with it.
4.then it gets lost or rubbed out or something.
5.he re-draws it and gets his friend back. (story based upon red balloon and the snowman)

I also looked at a couple of Pixar animators websites, Victor Navone and Carlos Baena. I have emailed both of these people asking various questions about their animations. Am awaiting a reply now.

I also found a really interesting website called http://www.11secondclub.com/ which has all sorts of short 11 second character animations and also many tips left by people of advise on how to make a good animation. may come in useful later in my project.

Update

This evening I got a reply from Modern Toss explaining that they used Flash to animate and After Effects or Final Cut Pro to composite when making their animation "Alan". I have emailed them back asking for more details on the matching of the animation and live action. Awaiting reply.