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Click here to view the first 42 frames of the story. The image above illustrates what the final movie could look like, with a semi-realistic treatment of the background and straight 2d cartoon figures.
The story could also be rendered in 3d and that is a tempting idea; nothing is set in stone, but for the moment it's being envisaged as a 2d movie, with a series of sitcoms emanating from that eventually.In my dreams.
Some themes in the story Everyone has their limits and strengths, not necessarily being better than
the other. Handicaps are a fact of life and can be dealt with.
One theme that immediately
comes to mind here is that just as humans have adapted themselves to nature,
bending it to our wills, so nature can once again take over. The chairs in
the restaurants are out of scale for our characters; they have to leap, fly,
crawl or haul themselves up to sit in spaces that were designed for other
bodies, no longer here.
No longer here will be emphasised again and again,
subliminally, almost as a dark ongoing joke as the characters try to fit themselves
into clothes, furniture and environments that remain as monuments to the lost
species.
What kind of species it was and how suddenly they all disappeared, will be
brought out by the objects and scenes featured in the background. Half-finished
cups of tea for instance, still sit mouldering on the restaurant tables, and Drak and Scribble
argue about who should wash them and why....and why not. After all these are now Archeological Artefacts.
The shop
mannequins will come to be called monuments by the new inhabitants of the
Mall, out of respect for the Disappeared.
