Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Spongebob and Totoro GIF

1. Concept: Spongebob jumping on Totoro. Totoro is sleeping, which represents my "chill" side of my personality, Spongebob represents my "hyperness." By making Spongebob jump on Totoro, it gives the idea that I could be both at the same time.
How I came to this idea: I changed my idea to Totoro and wanted to put someone sleeping on Totoro (like in the actual cartoon), but then I realized that it would be too complicated since I didn't have enough pictures. Then I figured that I could add something "funny," so I thought of using Spongebob instead, thus changing my idea once more.
The image of Spongebob further enhances my concept because throughout the GIF, he is always smiling, which represents optimism.

2. How has the animated GIF evolve from its original idea through the use of Photoshop?
When I started out with the thumbnails and post its, I had a really cliche idea of just someone sleeping. I realized that because of this, my GIF would end up really boring--therefore, I decided to think of something more iconic, and incorporated it with another cartoon to make the idea more interesting.