Mood Board

I created a Mood Board of a range of Images that all outline the kind of impressions that I am aiming to achieve. Some of them are characters that do not talk and just use animations to show feelings whereas others are using objects and turning them into human like characters.


*Edit - I was unable to upload the image of the mood board due to the site suffering "Technical Difficulties" last night.*

I will attempt to re-upload it later and see if it is fine.

I went through and gathered a selection of images that all are animated characters able to show feelings and emotions. I then brought these together to create a mood board of all possible ideas in an attempt to give me some more inspiration for my own animation.

I selected characters from films/programmes that I had seen before and had found them to be effective. Animations such as Kung Fu Panda, The dog from Up, Little Mermaid all use animals and give them voices. This makes them more human like and allows them to use their emotions and feelings to show the interaction with other characters as if they were human.

Animations such as Toy Story, Luxo and Cars use objects (Toys,Lamps,Cars) to turn them into characters.

-Toy Story allows the viewer to feel as if the toys have come to life by the way they interact with each other and the humans in the film.

-Luxo is a series of short animations created by Disney that all started with a simple opening scene animation for a film. Here they have made a Lamp come to life and carry out actions that humans do but in the lamp's own way using the physical features he has available to him. Disney have now continued this for Luxo to hae a child (Luxo Jnr), which definitely gives viewers the feel that Luxo is human.

-Cars was a hit Blockbuster for viewers of all age because it had humour and action that appealed to the older generation whereas still having the typical Disney/Fairytale feeling to it making it appealing to the younger audience. In this film Cars have come to life and speak and interact with other cars in the same ways that humans do. Tasks are carried out by particular cars that would be what humans are doing such as Tires being changed by a special forklift/wheel jack car.

I have also included images of two of my favourite animations, Morph and Pingu. In both of these the characters never talk in a language that we can understand but interact with other characters in the animation in thier own language giving it the feel that they are like humans. The actions that theyc arry out are always relating to similar actions that can be carried out by humans