Jordan Tyler-Love                                                  15.12.17
Research for my stop-motion short

My idea for next year's stop-motion feature, is about a certain tricolored, crazy and unintelligent bird (not a parrot) who is going to be the triumphant main protagonist. The idea for the screams were based on Scrat from the Ice Age series, except that I will practice recording high-pitched screams, to refrain from using 20th Century Fox's stock sound effects. 

During the end of the first two semesters, after I had completed the short film Brothschild's Journey where I had played the role of Canadian 19-year-old, Harold Brothschild, I watched a few stop motion projects such as: Davey and Goliath, Gumby, Morph, Wallace and Gromit, Button Moon, Bagpuss, Rainbow and Playhouse Disney's Jojo's Circus (before it was called Disney Junior), to get a bit of research of how to do clay-related characters. The research I wanted to look through was an ancient-cave related short, so I could make it look like the animals in our time, were unusual in Dinosaur/caveman times. Example: Tricolored Prehistoric Goose in 10,000 B.C. 

So, over the breakup weekend around 16th-17th December, I watched the first 3 Ice Age movies to get a little more inspiration. Instead of a squirrel, dinosaur or pterosaur. I wanted to start off with a cross-species between a goose and a toucan, so it did not have to be serious. I wanted to impress my tutors with a comedic, yet entertaining look. I needed to also get in touch my funny feeling side, so I could have a break from being sensible, serious and stressful as usual. 

As for Jojo's Circus, a Disney show back in 2004 on Playhouse Disney when I was 6. I needed a Pre-school friendly inspiration, so I could go back and pretend I was 6 again. The stop-motion comedy for 3-7 year olds had entertained me continuously. I really liked it when I was younger and I secretly like it now at age 20. 

What I also thought for the title of my untitled prehistoric cave animal project, I had not really given it any thought yet. But when I sketch in my spare time, I shall have come up with then. 

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