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Proposal and Characters: Fazuki's Doom of Slush

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Jordan Tyler-Love                                       24.1.18- 31.1.18 Proposal and Characters: Fazuki's Doom of Slush How I got the idea for Fazuki's Doom of Slush , was that I learned about the Stone Age, watched a few stone age shorts, and watched the trailer for Early Man (which I am seeing next Saturday). I am a big fan of dinosaurs and caveman. I wanted to make a feature that no one would ever create and that was based on the stone age. The idea for the characters and the reason why I wanted to use card to make the characters, because I learned how to draw characters out of card, when I was at Flycheese Productions as Parson Cross, Sheffield. I was 17 years old when I did my first project out of card, The Familiar Trapsite, which I created and animated back in 2014. The card characters were mainly inspired by the 1970s series, Paddington Bear .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxnW5k-Ytw4 The idea for Fazuki, was based on Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel fr

Problems during production

Jordan Tyler-Love                                                      7.2.18 Problems During production My first problem I had was when the flaps on the cardboard was stopping me from standing the box up. I was unable to stand it up.  How I overcame this, was that I borrowed Anne-Marie's scissors and cut around the edges, in order to stand the box up, rather than to cease production. The second problem I had was with standing Fazuki up in the background, the scene where he says goodbye to his future child (an egg, that will soon be an image from the Internet), as he kept falling off the background. So I had to delete those scenes. I had to start again. What I also did was add a little more blu-tac, to solve the problem, on the body first, but Fazuki had still kept falling off the background. So I had to add a little less blu-tac, but then, yet again, he had kept falling off the background. In order to keep him still for good, I added the blu-tac, this time on his hea