Influences

Ok i thought id better do some more explaining of how i got my main overall idea theme. For a while, i have wanted to make a film which relates to world war two, i seemed to have developed a keen interest of it, over the years, watching discovery channel, nat geo, history channel etc. And finally i have a decent idea for a ww2 animation.
I have decided that its going to be a little bit like creature comforts in the way of the visual humour, which doesnt always involve the dialogue, but sometimes relates to what is beeing said.
This is probably the best example i could find of this, youtube was a bit disapointing for what i actually wanted.
My main inspiration was an Aardman film called War Story, when i first saw this, a long time ago, i imediatly was impressed by the subtle comedy that goes on in the film, it is kind of the thing that what i am wanting to achieve, but of course i have a different story, and even tho it is still the same theme as War Story, it will be a different kind of film, in my way.


I want it to be like a montage of events, sequenced in order and hopefully use interviewed dialogue, i have from my Grandad, and use old photos as references and to help me build characters etc.
As a main style to my film, i want it to be very 'cartoon' like, i don't like realistic, as i feel it would limit me, in that of humor etc. I am going to look at the old warner bros cartoons and mgm cartoons as some animation references. As this is an example of very 'cartoon' like style in 3d.

i also saw this from the same channel, which is another war animated film, not as good as others, but its a good reference, this is meant to be a comedy too, but i felt the soundtrack was letting the film down.
So in a very small nutshell, and if someone asks, what are you dooing, i think i would say;
.....I am making an animated short film which is a light comedy flick about some persons experiences during world war 2. (that person happens to be my Grandad, but it could be anyone, just lucky i got him for this)......

So the whole reason that i have made this post is to make it a more in depth understanding of why i want to do this idea. Also i know this brief i will be more into, and wont get sick of it (to a point anyway, lol), On this, i dont think there will be much lip sync, theyl just be a lot of actions, close ups, glimpses of characters in the background, etc. So i dont belive it is going to be as much work as it sounds. I do know i will have to make multiple characters, scenes etc, so i am slitely looking forward to it all. AND, i am going to actually learn from my mistakes, dont waste time on certain things, and of course, my main objective is to make certain things simple SiMpLe SIMPLE SIMPLE! One last thing, i really want to get out of maya, but i know ill be using it lots again for this project, but i want to learn other 3d apps too, its just a time thing. :D :p