What Mike Said

I wrote a e-mail back to Mike Smith asking him why. He said that he felt the chosen pitches were slightly better and deserved to be green lit.

Nick Results

I know now if I was chosen for the Nickelodeon Contest. Here is Mike's E-mail

As promised I have assessed all the 15 pitches presented on Friday morning. Can I just say how impressed I was by the level of commitment and dedication put into all the pitches. Clearly this competition and project has encouraged some very creative thinking. Likewise the pitching process itself was a fun and helpful way to guide you all towards understanding the importance of your presentational skills.



However, we were only able to choose 10 pitches to be presented to Nickelodeon and although I felt your pitch showed great potential it was not successful at this time.



Thanks,



Mike

Nickelodeon Pitching to Mike Completed

I have just pitched my Nickelodeon idea to Mike, I think it went well. I made everybody laugh and Mike said he liked the character's and situations. I will have to wait till after Monday to see. Fifteen people pitched which means five will be going away. I do hope that I am not one of those five.

Al and I have got to work on the presentation to the Product design students on Monday. Over the weekend, Al is going to come up with some background designs and models. I am going to draw the storyboards up neat to be presented.

We will meet Monday morning and practice. I hope it all goes well.

Nickelodeon Ideas

Here are just some ideas I came up with for the Nickelodeon Project yesterday. This point of the idea below is that the alien is not not fazed or bothered by anything, even being run over by a car is no big deal.
Inspired by classic Tex Avery, trying to sleep next door to a rooster.

This idea is centred around car parts.

Stinky Hat.

A mock car ad.



I not quite sure yet which ones to pick. I'm going to have a think about it.

Nickelodeon Final Colour

Here are the final colours for the characters. I am quite pleased with how they turned out.

Here is my new lollipop character. I am not quite sure what to do with him yet, but I like him.

Nickeleon Idea

This is a new little idea I had for the Nickelodeon project. It's about a big, walking, talking lollipop. HE is always being chased by people who want to eat him, like these flappy head frogs, and is afraid he is going to shatter into pieces.

I got the idea from this:

Here is a screenshot from my walkcycle animation that I have posted earlier.

Current Situation

Hi, well the situation here is a bit stressful. As I had stated previously, if you are not one of the ten chosen by Mike to have their ideas put forward to Nickelodeon, you have to do this advert for one of the product design students. Not only have we not seen the products, but I can't pick either. We have to contact the students that designed the products. All the products are luxury items, like Jaguar ice cube makers, letter opener pens, fancy soap, expensive junk really. That means until the day we pitch to Mike, I have to work on two different projects at the same time. Ahhhhh! So I have partnered with Al, if we are successful with Mike, we will separate, but if not we will do the advert together. We have contacted all of the product design students to explain what their products are.

Here is a rough production schedule of what I know so far.

Walkcycle and New Concept

Here is something I came up with this morning. I did it is photoshop as quickly as I could to put it on the blog. I don't really know what it is yet. I will have to do some exploratory drawings.
This is a little walk cycle for some of the characters I have designed. Sorry the quality isn't very good.

CVA 205 Project Brief and Updated Contest Rules

I have received today some new information about the contest and the course.

The contest, titled "Laugh Your Pants Off" had the aim that students should conceive, write and storyboard an idea for a piece of animation between 10 to 30 seconds. It should be character-driven humour and can be any style of animation. But it must be funny.

Things to consider are

• What makes your audience laugh
• Is it scripted or visual
• Consider the use of audio to enhance the film
• What style of animation fits it better

The winner will receive the month's internship in September and they will also be four runners up.

Mike wants a maximum of five ideas per student. Five minutes per pitch.

On the negative side, the brief from Jared states that if your idea does not go through to Nickelodeon, as only 10 students can, you will have to work on an advert for Rave on Air to promote the products of the Year 2 Product Design students. I will have to work with them and have to pitch to them. Can't believe I will have to pitch to another student.

The list of companies are

BMW, Ann Summers, Apple, Fossil, Louis Vuitton, Lush, Marc Jacobs, Mont Blanc, Puma, Sony, Swatch Snow Goggles, Y3, Mercedes.

I don't know half of these companies. I really hope I don't have to do this.