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Scribble
Scribble is an abandoned mutant squirrel who is over the moon
when he is brought to The Mall by Drak who was lonely, bored and in search of someone or something
new to fix.
His love interest at the beginning and later on again in
the story is Aqua Velvet who is not included in the
characters here but appears in the story-board. She
has a tail, unlike Scribble, (his major defect) but she is
completely blue and has long hair growing out of her ears.
In the middle of the story he discovers a DVD featuring Eddie Izzard, famous British stand-up
comedian who is probably equally well-known for being a very public transvestite.
Scribble is hugely inspired, and raids the department stores in The Mall for
his make-up and other necessities for the new identity he creates as his alter
ego. He misses his mother and tries to evoke her presence by recreating
her.
Conflict happens between Scribble and:
Cogs because Cogs thinks he’s a badly brought-up little
(bleep); Drak, when he 'appreciates nothing she does for him', and
Sheena because he will not be dominated by her and he comes
dangerously close to undergoing a lobotomy at her little pink Barbie hands.
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Inventing Scribble:
Scribble is quite a complex character and was a lot of fun to invent and to animate. Click here for the sequence of his character development.
Scribble - Technicals
In developing the character walk, I decided that he'd have two different ways of walking - pure squirrel, and the upright cartoon style. Usually he travels in the plastic cup shown in the main picture. But at some stage in the story he puts on a lot of weight and since he can't fit into the cup anymore and he's among friends, he walks or rather, waddles, without caring too much about his lack of a tail.
Click here to view the technical process.
Animations
I developed the character walk from the side and in perspective.
Click on icon (left) to view his progress through part of the mall.
Back Story
Scribble is abandoned early in the story at the old disused zoo
near the Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, along with various
other mutant animals and outcasts, by his mother Amelia
who is bullied into this action by his Aunt Agnes. Agnes
means well, she is trying to save her sister from
imminent murder by her abusive husband, Hugene.
Agnes, Amelia and Hugene are secondary characters, like
Aqua (see intro on the right) and are only viewable in the storyboard at
this time.So Scribble becomes a survivor, and
from the time he arrives at The Mall, his character
gradually changes from that of a youngster who
displays every characteristic of a feral child -
manipulateve, charming, a street-wise trickster,
with a serious case of entitlement and little gratitude
for anything anyone does for him, to someone who’s mature
and can take on - if not the world, then at least some responsibility for his
own happiness and that of Aqua Velvet.
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