I had several meetings with my teammates in between our Applied Animation sessions over the past week or so, and I am glad to say that things are progressing quite smoothly, the colour schemes for both main characters have been confirmed and the design for the cake cart is almost finalised, we have also gone through the script and removed whatever does not seem appropriate to our young audience.
Cara and I had a discussion on the storyboard she did based on the script I wrote, and while many of the scenes she drew out were lovely, we decided to simplify quite a few of them so to make animating less of a hassle later on. Most shots will be done from the front (Which a lot of cartoons actually do, with a seemingly flat looking backdrop, but with better focus on the characters as they converse with one another, such examples include "Peabody and Sherman" and numerous living room scenes in "Family Guy"), as it seems unnecessary to include overly complicated perspective shots in such an animated short.
We also held a brief discussion on what animation style to go with, whether we should go with one where the movements are a little more limited, or actually add a bit more fluidity (While still keeping it fairly simple) as seen in most 90s animations.
Obviously we decided to combine both together, the character animation will of course be more fluid, while scenes such as cakes popping out of thin air will be waving back and forth in a very cartoony fashion.
After that, to help Cara with the animatic, I then did a quick read through of the script, so to better figure out the timing. In the end we realised that it actually lasted more than 2 minutes (Even without the opening and closing titles), and so after this pitch tomorrow, we will start cutting out scenes to shorten it to a more suitable duration.
I will also be putting together a Gantt Chart that we can all refer too after this pitch has been presented.
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