The main story revolves around Alec Littleman, a goggle-clad guy who will always try to help people in trouble, even though it usually ends up with him getting pummeled. One day he chances upon a secret experiment and accidentally gets fused with the DNA of a rare type of monkey, giving him the power to transform into the more agile Wonchop. Realising these powers can finally allow him to help people properly, he decides to become a superhero. Of course, he soon gets involved other 'animutes', element-wielding girls and top secret agencies, the top agent of which turns out to be his childhood friend. Naturally, things get darker as they progress, as bonds get tighter, lives are endangered, and the consequences of Wonchop's transformation start to show themselves.
From left-right/top-bottom, Wonchop, Amora, Ruth, Alec, Elly, Wez and Alec again.Other characters include Ruth, Alec's friend/secret agent, Wez, the first to know of Alec's secret, Elly, a shy girl with a secret, Amora, Ruth's figurative aunt and head of aforementioned agency, and Flint, a sword weilding animute with a mysterious link to Alec. Villains Wonchop would face include such foes as Muggerilla, Reggaemeleon, The Elly-Mentals, Lepricarnivore and Retrote Con Mole (puns ftw).
A bunch of art of the characters can be viewed here: http://wonchop.deviantart.com/gallery/#Project-Wonchop
There are a couple of routes I could take with this. One would be a simple pilot animation, showing a typical encounter Wonchop would have with the forces of doing bad stuff. This would involve Wonchop taking on a group of thugs who had taken some people hostage, before facing off against their leader, one of the animutes. After a prompt butt whupping, the victory will show up in a newspaper our hero's alter-ego will read the next morning, and complain about how they mispelt his superhero name.
The other, slightly riskier option, is an actual pilot episode, kicking off the story. This would introduce us to Alec and his friends and explain the origins of how Wonchop came to be, complete with curious exploration, temporary 'AHHH WHAT THE GOD IS HAPPENING AHH' moment, and his first encounter with the baddies where Wonchop learns an important lesson: gaining super powers =/= instant kung fu knowledge. This would be a bit longer than the former idea, which would obviously be a lot of work for me and my short attention span (I tend to make a lot of short movies barely breaching the 3 minute mark).
Of course, forgoing the above, I could just do a sort of pilot set to some music, in the vein of Sav the World's pilot animation for Oban Star Racers.
This would allow me to set the overall tone of the story and show a variety of scenarios with the different characters. (Not to mention it would save on lipsync ;D) So in the events that the top two become unlikely, this would be a good choice.
Other options include backstories to some of the character's pasts, such as Alec's friend Ruth, who had a pretty glum life before she met him and was able to smile again due to a pineapple related scenario.
Yup. Pineapples. You'll see if I ever do something with it.
As far as animations concerned, 2D is most likely the best option, since I can't really see it being pulled off any other way (except maybe 3D in a Storm Hawk's kinda way, but I'd have to improve my 3D skills a lot for that.) I'd probably use a variety of programs, such as Flash, Photoshop and After Effects, possibly a little 3D for things like motorbikes or cityscapes, though I will have to look a fair bit into how they are all used to bring stuff together. For voices and possibly soundtrack, I have a few contacts across the internet I can ask about, and I can always ask some people veeeeerry nicely for additional voices.
It's gonna be tough deciding between whether to go with these ideas, or Date for One.
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