Influences and Animation Style.

The following images are some that I found online from the film, 'Shrek the Third'. I want the interior of my ride to follow a smiler artistic style- very cutout, as though straight from a Victorian theatre. Within the cutout I would like machinery as this varies the style and allows many more possibilities when it comes to animating.

An example of both cutout and machinery together.

A tree folding out from the stage. If pulled off properly, this could look really good in the film- sets opening up etc.

Another influence to the whole feel of our film is Tim Burton. I don't want to borrow visuals from his films or create something that people automatically think is a rip off of Tim Burton. Instead, I want to create something that has the same sort of vibes his films give out- a spooky but funny film with great visuals. I also like in his work the way that the oddball is usually the main character and the one the audience feels empathy for. Although Kitty, is seen less in our film than the others, she is the character at the beginning of the film the audience with hopefully feel empathy for, due to the way she is treated by the others. The fact that she wears a headbrace and looks the scariest out of the sisters will hopefully subvert the audiences expectations when they realise she is the nice character and appearances can be deceiving.

The above two images are from one of our previous and most favourite projects. I want to emulate a smiler feel of a stylised environment that is still clearly obvious to the audience that it is earth the characters are on.

I enjoy themeparks and fair rides, so I took the opportunity when researching for my pitch to take photos of the ghost trains at two different places. The top image shows the traditional ghost-train building structure which we are using in our designs. This allows the audience to clearly identify that what the children have stumbled on is a ride. I felt that if we went for the structure of the bottom image, trying to look as though it were not a ride, then this could confuse the audience. The decor for the ride however, will be very different to both images. The look we will be trying to achieve will be creepy but elegant. The creepiness will hopefully be achieved in that the ride did not deliberately try to make itself appear scary like the other two rides above have, but looks worse, due to its years of disrepair.