New Animation Idea

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

My new idea is to do a musical video based on a series named Danganronpa, wherein a group of students are hauled into a school environment where they can graduate, if they murder another student, and get away with it. The penalty for being caught is death, and I will show that in the video.

Resources

The resources I will need will be:

1) Sony Vegas Pro (which I own at home)

2) Collection of the character frames (which I will download from http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Dangan_Ronpa_Wiki).

3) An episode from the show to use brief clips for parts of the chorus

4) The song 'Get Out Alive' by Three Days Grace which I will convert using www.2conv.com

Examples

Below are example videos of animations like the one I am planning to do, mine will be very similar, if not almost exactly laid out like these.

This one (albeit was compiled of many people's contributions) is of very high quality, and I plan to mimic some of the limb movements when needed. It will help liven the video up and make it more fluid, energetic and entrancing.

This one is also well animated and cleverly uses various effects and lighting, I plan to use this to inspire my video and take some unique shots.

Models

This character is the first to die in the series, and she will be shown, murdered and including her crime scene. I will show many shots of the aftermath and add some fading colours to her face to symbolise death.

This character is will be shown in the music video, one of the first people to kill (the person above) and be caught doing so, and I plan to make a visual effect for every time someone is gone. In the video I will show his blatant mistake which will link to the lyrics in the video which say "Don't hide your mistake".

This character is a smaller, fragile type that soon becomes the second victim to be murdered... I plan to show a glimpse of her death by panning her face with her killer (below) and showing they both got the short end of the stick by both dying.

This character is more built, and is the killer of the second victim (above), his actions were not forgiven and he soon was taken as a result. I plan to show that he died near the beginning where his frame will be blackened behind his friend. Also the previously mentioned panning shot next to the victim.

This character will be included, she is one of the many to go, she ends up offing two others and becomes caught, I plan to show a clip of her being dragged away to match the lyrics of the video at one point. This will hint that she met her fate, the lyrics will even say "As she faded away" and I will add a fade to match this.

This character is the protagonist, who doesn't ever fall to the despair, he is accused of the fifth murder of a mysterious student however, but it turns out that he didn't do anything of the sort and got out of it. He will be shown many times throughout the video as he will be showing loads of varied expressions and how he tries to cope with this whole situation.

This character is the antagonist, who turns out to be the mastermind behind the whole concept of this school and its rules. She will be shown at one point, flashing many poses over and over as if she is taunting him. This will work well due to the fact there are lyrics which will say "One day you'll end up like me".

Progress of Animation

This first shot is of the first two people dying, the victim I always place on the left, in this case, the girl, and the killer on the right, in this case, the boy, whom was her friend. I added a black and white filter to symbolise the death of both them.

This second shot focusses on the second murder, which I have also displayed with a black and white effect on the characters to show that they both died.

This third shot is unique in that the victims are on the left, which were killed one after another by the killer on the right. However like the others, I have shown that they met their fate by taking away the colour in their faces.

A tad different than the previous ones, this fourth shot shows that the killer was also the one killed, she ended up killing herself, which I've shown with the black and white filter. I made the victim (left) in colour as she didn't die, but was a victim in terms of her feeling hopeless and guilty.

This fifth shot is slightly similar to the fourth shot, although those accused didn't die, but they actually lived, escaping death from a false accusation in order to be take out of the picture. As they knew too much to ruin the antagonists plan.

The victim was already dead, which again is shown with the filter draining the colours from her portrait.

Changing Animation Idea

I have decided to change my animation idea, this is due to the time it will take to make the animation, the resources I'll need, and every other factor of it being too much of a task for one week, as I slightly forgot about the work.