Extended practice

So for my extended practice module i intend to animate the story of the bat who wants to be a bird. I have got permission off the person who i heard the story told by and we have arranged for him to come to leeds and perform it form me so i can record it for the audio. I will pay his travel expenses as his fee. This will be done after christmas as it is a good time for us both.Also this will get it done well in advance so i have something to work off when I start planning the animation. I am quite looking forward to this project. Then if i get my storyboards and animatic done by 3rd February then that leaves 3 months to just animate the whole thing. Fingers crossed that will be enough. I think ill aim to get it done a few days in advance like the 2nd May just so i have some leeway and time to correct and stuff incase things go wrong.

GOOD NEWS

Good news, the journey man did respond but it went into my junk mail so i didn't know!! he said yes to using the story but said there is also someone who has already done it before. It is on this website:
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/stories/legend-of-the-bat-1-the-video
I understand that she used aztec kind of style drawings as its a mexican story but i actually think the characters could have been designed better so i think i would still like to try. I also think the animation could be more fluid so i could attempt that. I would also like to see more use of backgrounds.

Tinga tinga tales

Unfortunately the man i asked to use his story about the bat didn't respond so i have had to resort to plan B. This is to find a folk tale such as "how the leopard got his spots" and then animate that for children.
Now the first already animated version i see is this. It is very old fashioned, long winded and a little racist with poor almost animation.

This is more the tone of voice and pace i am looking at

As discussed in my tutorial, doing a story from a difference place in the world would make me have to do a lot of research which would inform my designs more. Like Tinga tales which is very african based.

I really like this i love how the culture is all in there and i would like to do that too. However i don't think i would like mine to be quite as long as that. There are lots and lots of tinga tinga tales and i don't want to copy them but i do really like how they are done. 

These all come from the Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling.

I found this website that has all of the stories on 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2781/2781-h/2781-h.htm#link2H_4_0002