"Fly, Baby, Fly is an animation about a baby who is so affected by the experience of flying with the stork who brought him home, that he doesn't want to develop the ability to walk.
The film opens with the stork flying the Baby to his home. During their journey the Baby develops a passion for flying, so when he is dropped down a chimney into his real home, it's disappointing, even devastating.
Over the next year, his parents encourage the Baby to walk, but he just dreams of flying.
Everything comes to a head when he tries to fly out a window, and is saved by the stork. When the stork puts him back on his feet, he discovers the ability to walk, and realizes that the reality he has been ignoring and denying is actually a wonderful thing to be appreciated."
This is the current design of the Baby. There haven’t been any objections to him so far, so he will probably remain as is. I’m pretty happy with how he’s turned out. His earlier incarnations were very precocious and Uncle Fester (Addams Family) looking which were a bit creepy.
This is the current design of the Stork. I’ve been saying it for a while, but I don’t like the design, or at least how they are in these sketches. There is something very . . . boring about the Stork here. It looks too . . . animal like. I plan to anthropomorphize the Stork, have him as a sort of alert, paternalistic character towards the Baby.
So yeah . . . this is where I’m at after 3 scripts, 1 storyboard and 2 and a half (because I’m in the process of creating a third) animatics!
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If you want to make your stork interesting, try pushing for some shape variation.
Just draw some simple shapes (triangles, circles, squares, ovals...etc) make a combination. Make sure you vary the sizes (small medium large). Have a look at vases and try to see the shapes they are made out of.
Have a look at this work : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wizardofoz_cov.jpg
It's a comic adaptation of "Wizard of Oz." See how Enrique Fernandez pushes the shapes to exaggerate certain features of the animals and make it interesting yet appealing. Vivienne To showed me this work... she pointed at Toto and said, "Look at that. That is NOT a dog." (but in an admiring way of course.)
Good luck! And I like that your baby is simple. YES... that's the way to go. Otherwise you'll be crying when you're animating him. XD
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