research

to say that this is the extent of my research for this film would be very incorrect, the truth is i've been looking for inspiration from loads of sources that i watch daily, be it content creators on youtube, dumb memes with stupid punchlines or even shows like kind of the hill or even the pokemon animated series.

It's really an amagamation of what i want to present to the world as an "art style" that's not really how i would describe it however, it's more i find things i love and want to produce something that has made think like the source material i research, be it willingly or subconsciously.

however, i can list a few major contributors to my influences

-don hertzfeild-

I have been in love with hertzfeild's films for absolutely years since way before 2009 when i first saw his short film "rejected"

I love how bizzare and simplistic his films are, with rejected hitting well with some beatifully done shock comedy and bizzarities that i just love. and after seeing his movie "it's such a wonderfull day" i got the idea to use footage as a sort of blending layer onto animation to give it a different, less clean feel. something that i was trying to acchive from day one, although i unfortunately have an inner-perfectionist that makes me clean the lines beyong the rough lines that i wanted to produce

-edd ed and eddy-

Ok, again, ed edd and edd is one of my childhood favorites. what i love about it so much is that it really plays with the reality of the world (and can surprisingly despite it's appearance deliver some quite deep character development.

one thing i really wanted to take away from ed edd and eddy was the sort of surreallist art direction in a sense. for example i gave my characters jittery lines on purpose to make them seem love alive and in motion, even if all they were doing is standing still.

-akira toriyama-

Akira toriyama is the creator of the world famous Dragon ball, and dragonball z. and one thing i have loved about his artwork in particular is his use of lines and the way he conveys motion in the manga of the dragon ball series,

one thing i particularily like about his use of motion is the way he uses lines to draw the eye and really add power to punches.

as i animated things that had a lot of velocity and speed (such a Fred fuchs punching the kid at the lemonade stand at the start) i kept thinking "Don't forget to toriyama it" in reference to his use of motion.

i dont think i truely captured it in every shot that i used it in, but it certainly adds quite a lot of the scenes that it's in, and even the scenes where it;s not so good it doesn't detract anything at all (in my opinnion)