Beginning
I plan to make an animation, however instead of having many different inceptions of the idea, I'll use many different ideas of the same thought and scenario.
General Plot Idea
First Idea
A young child going through many phases of her life, image by image, showing a progression of time. Passing through the years of her life, from young infancy to maturing adulthood. Including many scenes in which it shows the many positives that happened in her life, and also the many obstacles that she overcame.
I plan to make it a time-lapse animation of some sort, I plan to take pictures for each and every frame. The frames per second won't be anything too high as it is based off an already existing style of time-lapse. I decided on two different styles, I decided to go for either traditional drawings for each and every frame, which would take more time but would look very slick. Or I could challenge myself and go for a cut-out main character and make it so that they are very easy to see and can witness how they were the main struggle. The characters I could use for this idea are below. I would use my sketchbooks, pencils, erasers, pens and other drawing utensils to make the scenes and cut out(s).
This option, the cut-out character in the foreground, would actually safe on time and would make it seem very stylish if all the other things in the background, like locations, and scenes are traditionally drawn or are photos themselves.
Below are examples in videos.
Second Idea
Largely similar to my first idea. Instead of doing a time-lapse, and having frames replicating what one could describe as a scrapbook collection of still images, I plan to recreate the scenes in a pure cut-out animation style from drawings. I plan to make the scenes based off of the same two characters used above. Rather instead of showing brief glimpses of just what they went through and how they recovered, I am going to animate them via cut-out drawings that I will draw myself. I will make it feature almost the same music that I planned, which could vary from one to three tracks, but that is yet to be determined.
The plot would be the same, but the scenes of frustration and joy that they were to have only briefly touched in the previous animation idea, which would cover their whole life, would instead be animated. Due to them being animated, it will not be able to cover to much in the dedicated time. Thus, the animated version would only cover key things in their childhood, not their adult years and teen 'angst' years.
This, albeit not an accurate example to what I've planned, is an animation using the same process almost, instead I plan to have photos as backgrounds. Like a contrast of white and black people in a coloured environment, it could compliment each other.
