The document outlines Laurence Archer's initial plans for an animation project using a fantasy theme. It discusses using animation experience to create the project. It presents two potential genres: a fantasy fighting game with variety to create, or a turn-based role-playing game where animation would be easier. A mood board is shown incorporating pixel art styles from role-playing video games to inspire the art style. A schedule is provided with tasks over 5 weeks, including practicing music software and creating animation and sound effects.

1. Initial Plans
Laurence Archer

2. Initial Reaction
● With this project, there is a gigantic amount of variety to choose from when
creating this project since we are using animation.
● I am thinking of using a theme of fantasy to expand on the already massive
amount of variety as the genre is very varied when looking at the games made
under that genre.
● I have experience with animation in my own time so I believe I will be able to
create a good amount in the two weeks of production.
● The audio will be more of a struggle than the animation as I have more
experience with animation than I do with audio, I do believe I can do well with
the audio side with the project using experience from the audio project I have
already done.

3. Mind Map
Fantasy Fighting
Game
Lots of variety in what I
can create because of the
fantasy theme.
Would take a very large
amount of time to create
as creating the people
and setting would take
enormous amounts of
time.
Could be a side scrolling
fighter, so you fight a few
creatures the move to the
next area.

4. Mind Map
Turn Based
RPG(Role Playing
Game)
Animation will be easier to
create as characters will
move less than they would in
other genres.
Designing characters
and the world will be
much more important as
the animation is more
limited.
I would need to create many
different backgrounds to create a
large world.

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
● When creating the mood board I made sure to repeat the art style used, this is a
pixel art style used in video games as this is what I am using in my animation so I
can use this for artistic inspiration.
● I have also heavily included role playing games in my moodboard as this is one of
my two mindmap ideas, if I decide to create a role playing game I can then use
this as inspiration for an art style.
● There is also a lot of use of the colours green and blue, this is because these
colours can be used to create a very natural environment to create more focus to
the characters in the games.

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
∙ Practice ‘Beep Box’ so I
can create music more
efficiently during
production.
2 Product Research,
Proposal, Planning
∙ N/A
3 Production ∙ Create my animation first
∙ If I have time create sound
effects for animation
4 Production ∙ Create music and sound
effects for the animation
5 Evaluation ∙ N/A

8. Bibliography
1. Game Freak (2010) Pokemon Black
2. Dodge Roll (2016) Enter The Gungeon
3. Nicalis (2014) The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
4. Mossmouth (2008) Spelunky
5. Motion Twin (2017) Dead Cells
6. Re-Logic (2011) Terraria
7. Toby Fox (2015) Undertale