A Dynamic Duo of Me and I.: Mid-Term Concept

Continuing with my concept for the semester, my mid-term animation will center around the idea of turning food products that we would ordinarily find comfort in, into objects that would in turn make us uncomfortable.

Exhibit A:

A box of animal crackers.

Animal crackers are the fun foods we all loved as kids.

Idea:

The project would start with animal crackers marching across the scene. A horizontal pan allows you to see the animal crackers marching into an animal cracker box laying on its side. A hand reaches into the scene and picks up the box of animal crackers. (Scene cuts to upper half of human body with animal crackers box in hand.) The person eats the first couple animal crackers with enjoyment and content. As he eats the animal crackers the animal crackers turn into the real animals and when consumed (a.k.a. eaten limb for limb as we usually do with animal crackers) they bleed. A content face then quickly turns to a sour and disgusted/uncomfortable face. He looks down at his stomach where there is a close up of the dismembered limbs and it appears as a bloody/stomach acid soup floating around.

[There may even be a scene where the other animal crackers left in the box see what happens and attack the person. Still thinking about this idea conceptually. ]

The animal crackers act as the comfortable fun food we ordinarily think nothing of, but to further define the possibilities of how food can represent ideas of comfort and uncomfortable, the act of enjoying the crackers turns into a negative experience.

The overall aesthetics will possibly be a 50s documentary style alluding back to a consumerists society or a flattened vector approach that is very colorful and becomesdim (alluding again to the enjoyment turned sour.)

Aesthetics: