After researching self harm and discussing ideas we decided the characters in our animation would be animals as this will allow us to show our characters feeling emotional without it causing the viewer to feel the same. We all created a character based on a different animal and decided to develop them further while we thought up ideas for the narrative.
We realised while researching self harm that it would be best if we didn't show our characters physical self harming as this could be a trigger for the viewer but instead decided to focus more on how the characters feel and how people can get over self harming.
We also decided to stay away from the colour red as this can also be a trigger.
This is my initial drawing for my bird character.
Idea/ Storyboard
'It Gets Better As You Grow'
For this i thought we could show the transition from been a teenage to been an adult by having the main character starting off at school and having a hard time (maybe for this we could have the main charcter a different animal to everyone else showing they feel they dont fit in) then going to university where they slowly become happyer because they meet people more like them (same animals). Throughout the story we could have the charcters features changing from the animal to more human to show that they are starting to feel more confident in their own skin.
Research
We looked at an animation called ' when the day breaks' as the animals in this animation were humanoid similar to the characters we were developing. The mood of the animation changes as the day progresses and shows the pig character getting more depressed which makes for a good study for our animation.
link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fFQEG7kkbs&feature=youtu.be
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