In 2007 Animation Advertisement came to my mind. The idea was to make use of the big advertisement screens that are on the roads of Kingdom of Bahrain for the animation without any sounds. And later expand the project.
For the start I was thinking of making simple ads like animation on traffic laws such as wearing seat belts, speed driving, driving and talking on the phone and so on.
I have done a lot of search and reading about drawing, animation, storyboards, film making, film editing, screen play, and so on. And one of the software I found for 2D animation was Anime Studio. I have also looked at the work of one professional company that does animation and they are GreyKid (now they are called Freakish Kid. Their work is amazing!
Since I am not good at drawing I wanted to try it myself, if I can do it and if I can start a project about Animation Advertisement in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
These are the things that I have read and done:
Read a lot of books related to drawing. Read the basics of film making. Read the basics of animation. Read about the basics of 2D & 3D animation. Did some paper hand drawings. Did some 2D drawings using Anime Studio, I was using version 5 that time! Also I have done some animation using Anime Studio which was about 80% acceptable by me ;).
I will upload 2 drawings and 2 animation later.
Conclusion:
Animation Advertisement is not impossible! It can be done and we have all the required knowledge. I have tried to make a small team and start working on it, but didn’t find the dedicated team members and didn’t have the free time to work on it myself.
I can say that this project have good future. If anybody wants to start it let me know and I can give you all the info needed.
There is also another project which is making films and TV serials using animation but this is a different topic.
Wish you all good luck and regards.
