Idea for Flash Animation

The idea behind my animation followed a person who is trying to diffuse a ticking time bomb, while experiencing extreme anxiety, only to realize that it’s all just a test. As I’ve already said in another entry, my primary inspiration was David Firth’s “Salad Fingers” and his erratic, nonlinear plotlines, as well as a certain example that Lori showed us during lecture that used a poem for narrative and had a shady atmosphere, entitled “Ross Macaulay” (I’m not sure if this is the title of the animation or the creator of the animation), and his design of characters (with big, circular heads and no arms).

I designed my characters to have black holes for eyes, similarly to the members of animated rock band “Gorillaz”. In creating my animation, I relied on conventional generic action movies for research – I wanted to parody this genre, to a certain extent, by mimicking the formulas that are recycled for many of them. Police helicopters hovering over skyscrapers, hostages, bomb diffusing squads – these are all formulas that I wanted to employ into my story.