LoopdeLoop - preproduction

For my second individual brief, I decided to create a 10 second Loopdeloop animation, because this is a competition I had never entered before. Also, the brief for this month was of particular interest to me. The theme was "Sisters" which is something I wanted to do because I myself have a sister, and I am surrounded by a good majority of people who also have sisters, so I thought it would be quite interesting to create an animation based around this topic.

My sister and I have quite a big age gap, so I have very few memories of us fighting. However, one of my friends is only 2 years older than her sister, so I asked her to give me some stories of times they had fought. One of the first memories she gave me, was when she accidentally broke her sister finger when fighting over the remote! I decided to take this idea and adapt it slightly.

I decided to design two very young toddlers, and instead of a remote, I chose to have them fighting over something a lot more appealing to youngsters, such as cake! This animation was only going to be 10 seconds, so I knew from the start that I wanted it to be more cute and funny than anything.


I began by doodling out a bunch of babies. It seemed like the best place to start! I knew the design of these toddlers needed to be quite round, to give them the element of appeal that I wanted.

The idea of having bows in the hair did cross my mind but I then decided that this was a bit too cliche for my liking, and a tad too gender stereotypical.

I liked the idea of having the positioning of the characters staying pretty much the same though out, because 10 seconds didn't seem like enough time to incorporate aspects such as having them run around or having a full on fight, whilst also getting to a point where it could effectively loop!

After some sketching, I settled on the design of these two characters to the right.




I was happy with these designs, because they didn't look overly girly, apart from the pink and purple playsuits, which is what I was going for. The design for each of them is very similar apart from the changes in colours for the hair, and one having curlier hair than the other. I thought that adding little changes like this would work well, because it would allow the characters to have their own individuality.