Did I Tell You How I Got These Scars?

        The scar film took quite a bit of thought to get to the scar I got to, I have a good many of them. First off I had to choose what kind of scar I wanted whether I wanted to do a physical or emotional scar. I suppose I could have ran with the cancer as a scar bit, or even used a scar I got from its surgery, but, honestly that felt too easy... and not very fun really. So I sat back and poked about thinking of the various idiotic things I have done and the harm they have brought to me. The first that came to mind was the one on my very upper thigh, but I had a certain way I wanted to do that and it didn't work well with the way the assignment was assigned. This posed another challenge for me. In retrospect it was probably better this way, it led me to think of how I wanted to do things stylistically to make it a bit more interesting. So I went back to the mold and looked about. Then came my elbow scar and I remembered just how much fun I have telling that story. From that point it became a matter of just how I needed to break it down. This, honestly, has been the hardest part. Stripping away the useless bits of the story that usually get a laugh hasn't been easy. Thinking of the pacing for an animated short is much different than blabbering about to your buddies about your bike trying to kill you. It has always been about how I wrecked and what almost happened, not the irony of the bike wreck vs the skateboard. Then I have to think about how I want it to look. When I made the decision to make my dad look drastically different than me it kind of helped me decide what I wanted to try for this film. Dad looks like a Canadian from South Park so I think I will sort of take inspiration from that. Along with my love for stop motion animation I am going to try doing this with construction paper. With that in mind this is going to be set on a 2D plane, so basically a side scroller. This is going to take some serious thought if I want to do it and do it right, but that is what make this fun.