CT5ADVRA: Nursery rhyme

University of Portsmouth - Animation Yr. 2 - Advanced Visual Research For Animation

The nursery rhyme that I chose is Goosey Goosey Gander.

Goosey goosey gander,

Whither shall I wander?

Upstairs and downstairs

And in my lady's chamber.

There I met an old man

Who wouldn't say his prayers,

So I took him by his left leg

And threw him down the stairs.

The first step that I took was to find out the meaning behind the rhyme and learned that it refers to the persecution of the priests.

After the research phase I came up with two versions: A darker one and a lighter one. The darker one shows a man, or goose in our case, who finds out that he is cheated on and his revenge on his wife's lover. The lighter one was about our goose who is waiting in the hospital for his child to be born. After he hears the good news he grabs the doctor on his shoulder and both fall down the stairs. 

 I have also experimented with the style while making the basic, initial storyboards.

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