Applied Animation: Refined Ideas

I have finally refined the ideas swirling around my messy mind and have come up with a few good starting points for some of the aspects of this title sequence. Obviously, there are still a lot of key elements that I need to narrow down further and there are some things that I still need to consider before I start making some final decisions, but I feel that I have enough here to get me started on thinking about a treatment to work from and a simple storyboard and character design, etc.

I gave more thought to the idea of using dialogue and decided that I wanted to keep it to a minimum and use sounds instead to help portray the mood of the story. I feel that by doing it this way I will be able to create a much stronger atmosphere and I won't have to worry about finding the right voice but more so just the right sounds, which I feel might be slightly easier (although I'm not placing any bets on it). Also, regarding sound, I thought on the possibility of using a 'theme tune' or soundtrack, as you find in most title sequences and this is something I am going to have to explore and experiment with. I will have to make sure any sounds or music that I use are legal and that I'm not plagiarizing anyone else work. I also gave a lot more thought to he appearance of the two main characters and began to take references from the actual book. I feel that now would be a good time to begin working on some character designs, as I have the basic appearances down. For the story line I decided to go for picking key events from the first chapter of the book to use to create my title sequence, as I feel that this will help me to create a successful title sequence. As for the environments within my title sequence, I feel that taking on the same approach as I have for my characters would be a good way to go. After collecting some references I'll make a start on experimenting with environmental concepts and colour pallets.