Concepts for Animation Pieces

I've been thinking about some pieces I want to do for either my 2D classes or my BFA piece. I've had two ideas that I've created for one class that have been collecting dust in my repertoire of unfinished ideas.

Nina Flame

Nina Flame  is a story that is based off the concept of Fantasia. It is a story of a flame, multiple flames lit for a romantic evening. Once lit, the flame women take up unlit matches and begin a sensual dance to attract the oxygen in them room. Nina, however, finds the dance unnerving and is unwilling to participate. Danger strikes when a window is cracked and the wind goblins enter, bent on blowing out the flames! Those who have found their oxygen mates are protected against he fiends however Nina is left to the mercy of the wind. 

I wanted it to have a theme that different actions are attractive to different people. In the end, Nina uses her unlit matches not for a dance but as weapons as she fights the wind goblins away. The fight itself attracts her oxygen mate and they together fight the goblins until the window is closed. 

The piece will be silent with music with a classical feel. I was thinking of using an actual classical piece and animating around it or pooling my resources since I have many conductor friends. 

Teddy Bear

EXT.  PLAYGROUND - DAY

CONNOR LOVELL sits on the swing alone. He is an 9 year old boy dressed in a large hoodie and jeans. His thick-rimmed glasses slide down his face and he quickly pushes them up.

He is staring at a YOUNG GIRL. She is around 10/11 and is sitting beneath a tree playing with a beaten up teddy bear. Her hair is pulled back by a bright yellow headband that matches her sundress.

Teddy Bear is a short screenplay I created as practice for writing, characters, and storytelling. It is a short feel good piece about a young shy boy who admires a young girl his age but is too afraid to approach her, even going as far as moving away when he notices her approaching him. He sees her playing with a worn teddy bear before walking away to play with other kids. When he looks up again the teddy bear is gone and she is crying in her mother arms. He takes the initiative to find the teddy bear himself, searching all of the park and town. Just as he gives up hope and luck strikes and he returns her teddy bear to her, receiving a small kiss in thanks. 

This piece will also be silent with music. Both pieces will be traditionally drawn mostly like hand drawn and fine tuned into Toon Boom. But it's hard to decide which one I want to focus on.