Fish & Hami
Anyone who knows me knows i often have six ideas in my head at all times. At this moment im considering Vann Swann, Talkin Crap, GatorNation, Fish & Hami, daNotes, and floozyspeak... While it can be chaos, its also nice to be filled with ideas. Fresh ideas motivate me, provided i get over the limitations of what i can do and cannot and accept that.
Fish & Hami is currently up to the plate. Its a concept like Dark Kitty, a comic story I created in Texas. I never fully fleshed out the characters because like Dark Kitty, i cant create it alone, i cant manifest them without help. Liz was my artist on Dark Kitty, and now Don an artist ive met thru Grundy (my muse most of my creations in texas) has helped me spark the creation of Fish & Hami.
Fish & Hami is a story about a fish and hamster set in xfiles/csi/noir style universe. All my stuff has a dark twist of comedy in it and Fish & Hami follow that theme. Fish can see crimes as they occur, hes like a precog seeing the darkness in man and he wanders around often, most of the time ending up at the scene of the crime. Hami is his hamster partner that is like an ex-comando with bullets across his chest and puffin a cigar. He does the talking and while he doesnt have Fish's precog abilities he knows what has happened at the scene buy having super csi like intution skill. He typically does the talking yet ive never scripted a word for either of them. I know Fish wont talk, hes all about expression in his face and the context around him. Like Dark Kitty, where I had no real purpose or story or message just wanted to do something, Fish and Hami, while they see the crimes and know what happened, dont solve anything. Its more about their journey and how events unfold around them and how its all just known to them. I dunno, the first few episodes will be bizzare im sure or utterly boring, it'll be a mood piece, like a strange music video. I cant wait to get it going.
To start Don is working up concepts of how they'd look, i have a rough idea as does Grundy. Everything starts somewhere and for me, well I like to edit, so we're putting together an opening sequence. For years ive wanted to make my own animation make my own opening sequence that introduces an audiance to what is about to happen, the visual cues an opening sequence gives to the content that lies ahead is really facisnating to me. In anime, the best animation of the epsiode and sometimes the whole series is in that opening sequence, it sets the tone of the show, the mood, everything. So thats our first goal. Create an opening sequence to Fish & Hami.
The song is picked. And tonight i put together the storyboard.
a few notes
background plate is anything, odds are it will be either a still that we create or motion video, most likey it will be a background of sorts, a house, a train, a dumpster, a street, the city, the subway etc, exterior shot
crime shot is a focused piece critical to the story, its a piece of evidence, its an element of what occured, the murder weapon, the laughing dog, the injection needle, the gauge on a resperator, the caution tape unfolding, the chalk of drawing, cops talking, cops eatin donuts, a car sputters away etc
title slate, is a graphical element, its a text effect or title of the show, the characters, the creators etc
fish character, thats fish, its either a still of him or an animation of him, he walks by, the camera zooms outa him and fades him to black etc
hami character, thats hami, its either a still of him or an animation of him, he walks by, the camera zooms outa him and fades him to black etc