What Would You Animate?

So! I had my first Q&A experience at Animation Mentor last night. The Q&A session was hosted by the three guys that started Animation Mentor, so almost the whole school showed up. Man! There had to have been almost 400 people logged on at once. The video was super choppy, because of all the users, but I could still hear the audio. There were some really good questions asked, especially one about "What would you do if you could animate anything?".

The three guys said that they would like to try some kind of drama. One of them said that they would want to make the audience cry. That is very interesting, since a lot of animation is geared toward kids, if you don't count tentacle porn or Worker and Parasite :) What if more animation took on serious themes? What if Pixar did a drama?...action?

I would love to do a Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Three Stooges, or Abbott and Costello type animation. I think the character interactions and the gags would be awesome to animate. Plus, you would really have to nail down your character's personalities to make it work.

On a side note, I have my first Q&A with my mentor tomorrow. There I will actually hop on the WebCam and travel down the rabbit hole to see what I can see. Wish me luck internet world. I have a tendency to get nervous and start swearing uncontrollably. I better check my mic volume.

Rock to your mothers!