Target Audience

Name: john young

Age: 17

Gender: male

Media consumption: john young would watch a lot of you tube and gaming videos and enjoy cartoons, sci-fi and fantasy films and weird pass times and social events like a lot of social websites and conventions of games and comics.

john young would play video games on the pc and like listening to pod casts.

average Day: wake up check you tube, Facebook and other social sites for updates in the morning, then go to college and social with friends.

go to forbidden planet and game in the city to buy video games and game tees.

then after that he would go home and listen to pod casts whilst playing games with his friends then later in the evening he would go on social sites and talk to friends then watch famous you tube videos.

spending power: week-end job/ part time, john young would have the power to buy about 2 games a month or spending money on going to the cinema or meal out's with his friends all things to do with social activates or leisure.

this animation would appeal to john young because it's a nice length that he can easily fit into a day  it also would be his humor and would reference a lot to real life issues and references like social sites, movies, games and general life so he could easily relate to the series.

Voice Actors

GUY

Choice: Karl pilkington

karl pilkington has a generic boring voice and is miserable in tone the same as guy, so karl could easily get into the character of guy and have a bad view on every event in life.
guy is fed up with life and hates any idea of doing any thing, karl pilkington would have 3 qualities to echo this character.

-karl pilkington has a boring London city accent so their would be no enthusiasm from the start.

-karl pilkington also is very miserable and hatful to many ideas of life so he could emulate guy with little effort.

-karl pilkington is never cheerful or happy and nothing gets him motived just like guy so he could replicate the essence of him in the show.

Yarn Cat
choice: Sam Lavagnino

sam lavagnino is a child and so is yarn cat so he already has the required was age and has done previous work on other cartoons e.g the bravest warriors

yarn cat is very inncoent and goes along with anything that anyone says, so he nots to seem none threating and very weak and a good way of doing this is through verbal view so having sam lavagnino would make a great choice.

budget reference

https://www.voices.com/resources/rates

SCHEDULE reference

south park research
http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2011/11/teams-at-work-creating-a-south-park-episode-in-6-days/

Peppa Pig research
http://www.kidzcoolit.com/reviews/the-brains-behind-peppa-pig-phil-davis-neville-astley-and-mark-baker-answer-some-kidz-random-questions.php

The Simpsons research
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6260000/newsid_6262500/6262584.stm

Adventure time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm91RYa1i-Y

legal issues

Animation set up

Trends in Animation

ANIMATED FEATURE

2013: 

Frozen

despicable me 2

monster university

2012:

 Brave

Madagascar 3

Dr Suess' lorax

2011:

kung fu panda 2

the smurfs

cars 2

trends for feature films

sequels

franchises

computer animated

well established company

pixar, dream works

hollywood star actors

family adventure

TV series

simpsons

family guy

south park

american dad

beavis and butthead

king of the hill

adventure time

ed, edd and eddy

the amazing world of gumball

trends for TV series

episodes are lead by characters and after each episode characters dont seem to develop much or at all.

they are erratic/ abstract mostly containing 2D characters on 3D backgrounds which is rather odd when you think about it.
all of the above are mainly aimed at teens and young adults.

Web series
asdf series
charlie the unicorn
etc

trends for web series
short
teenage audience

characters in shapes/ doodle sheet

Design and Target audience

development of guy

final design of yarn cat

yarn cat development

Yarn cat process

guy final design

process of guy

Animation research products

Film

Animation -The Lego movie

release date- 01/02/2014 - n/a

makers- Warner bros.

Directed by Phil lord and Chris miller

animation style- a hybrid of CGI and stop-motion

Target Audience - children, families. 

purpose- to create entertainment for the viewer

my view- i like the new hybrid idea and the next level bench mark of animation that other animation companies will have to compete with.
 

Web Series

Animation- salad fingers

release date- epsiode 1- 7th may 2007

 maker- David Firth

directed by David Firth

animation style- flash cartoon

Target audience- adults, young adults.

purpose- to entertain the viewer.

my view- i think the salad fingers series is a great piece of imagination and creativity, and the style in terms of looks and story and the atmosphere it gives from the sincere voices to the added sub titled dialogue to the corpses and blood, i think it's very originally and different which i believe to be great.

 

Short
Animation- Dot
Release Date- 31st august 2010
makers- Sumo Science - Will stud and Ed Paterson
directed by Sumo Science
Animation Style- Stop motion
Target Audience- smart phone buyers, Amateur film makers
Purpose- advertise camera phone product
my view- i think it's very well done piece of Animation and looks very clean and is an interesting idea when knowing it's the smallest stop motion animation.

TV Series
Animation- Adventure Time
Release Date- 11 may 2010
Makers- Pendleton Ward- cartoon network
directed by Pendleton Ward
Animation style- stop motion
Target audience- older children, teens, young adults.
purpose- to entertain the viewer
My view- i love the tv series Adventure time personally due to its humor and setting. however in terms of animation style and story i believe it is really successful and is really appealing visually to its target audience.

Music
Animation-Gorillaz- Dirty Harry
Release Date- September 7 2010
Makers- Jamie Hewlett
directed by Jamie Hewlett

Animation Style- 2D Animation
Target Audience- listeners of the music, teens and adults
purpose- complement the music and entertain the viewer
My view- very smooth nicely used Animation with real life 3D backgrounds and real life props or even characters so in terms of visuals its very pleasing and the work behind it too is very impressive.
 

Advert
Animation- Dairylea Dunkers
Release date (1999)
Makers- Aardman Animation
Directed by Aardman Animation
Animation style- Stop Motion
Target Audience- parents, grocery buyers
purpose- to make people want to buy the product
My view- it's not that much of an interesting advert and it doesn't draw me however it's still a nice piece of work and is smooth and well paced.