Research for character 2

This is a Mata Atlantic's protection advertisement.
The characters are just the shape like paper cutting, no any details, quite simple and clear.
The color is just black and white, people can focus on the content.

Research for character

These are the facial expressions that when you use MSN or other chat tools to talking with your friends, you will use some facial expressions to make your talking funny.
These facial expressions are come from: http://qqface.knowsky.com/

These are the facial expressions, it's quite similar with my character.

I probably just add his legs, it could be a cartoon spider.

I want to keep my character simple and clear.

Character Design

The character i think it should be very casual and simple, so i created this spider similar a black ball. And i will focus on the black and white color for it.

StoryBoard

The story is happened between live actor and animated character.
The live actor is one guy's hand.
The animated character is a spider.
A guy open his sketch book that want to drawing something. He draw a cartoon spider very casual, but he doesn't want it immediately. However, he can not remove the spider. The spider begin to moving.
So he draw a cage, an insecticide, a hole and a cooker which to leave it away.
Finally, these ways are useless for the spider. He just only closed the sketch book.
In fact, this spider didn't disappear and ready to coming out.

Research for style

It's combine with animation and live action, quite simple style and very funny. The animated character is just two hand drawing guys.

Live-action/animated film

A live-action/animated film is a motion picture that features a combination of real actors or elements: live-action and animated elements, typically interacting.
Techniques:
Originally, animation was combined with live action in several ways, sometimes as simply as double-printing two negatives onto the same release print. More sophisticated techniques used optical printers or aerial image animation cameras, which enabled more exact positioning, and better interaction of actors and animated characters. Often, every frame of the live action film was traced by rotoscoping, so that the animator could add his drawing in the exact position.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Updated Aim

Aim:
I would like to produce a short story through animation and live action without language.
I will express the relationship between live actor and animated character, focus on animation style.
The part of animation, i prefer doing simple stop motion style.
The part of live action, the actor is probably people's hands.
The whole story is exaggerated and funny that tells audience.

Theme:
I would like to create a piece of work about the relationship between live actor and animated character.

Learning Outcomes:

• To research some animation works with live action
• To experiment some piece of drawing way for animation
• To improve my After Effects and Final Cut Pro skills
• To improve the cinematography understanding and film scene skills
• To learn character action skills
• To draw a lots of character movement in order to help me understand structure and the way character move