The ole I-dent has not gone terribly well this week, I just haven’t been able to get into the swing of things, it did pick up a bit this afternoon but I still have not decided for definite on a style for the whole thing which means that I still do not have a design bible, instead I have a verity of different styles that I have tried out and animation tests, a lot of which are half complete because I decided I did not like them and stopped doing them. So far my favourite style is inspired by the German animator Koto Ezawa who uses simple blocks of colour to reconstruct film and news segments. I have messed about with this a bit to try and make it a bit more original but I am still not sure that I have done enough to set my work apart from his.

I also still need to decide how I am going to animate everything, my plan was to use Flash but I tried to do some stuff in it yesterday but it was just too complicated. Today I redid it by hand and my plan is to scan that into Photoshop so that I can neaten it up and paint over it. From their I might put it into Flash because there are still some bits that I think I can animate using puppets or just do everything by hand and render it out in After-effects.

The green-screen workshop today was interesting, I did not really do too much on it because I wanted to get on with the I-dent but I do have some ideas for stuff that I want to try out when I get the time.