DOTTIE:
THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG VOICE
Where
Babies Come From: Storyboards |
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I
was created by actress/writer/producer Dawn Westlake and animators
The Moser
Brothers, Tom & Joel. They met here on the internet
via mandy.com
When Dawn was just a girl, she had a little cousin named Davy
Westlake who had a big voice like mine as soon as he began talking
(without the magical powers I have), so she wrote a short story
about him and then in later drafts, decided to make the main
character a little girl...me! |
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Davy Westlake |
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her short story, Dawn wrote a script which she e-mailed to The Moser
Brothers who at that time were living all the way across the US from
her in Orlando, FL! They liked it, and said they'd want to be my animators.
Here are some of the ways I could have looked... |
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those sketches, Dawn found not only me, but also my classmates Brenda
and Charlie. Here are some design ideas for the other people in my
life: Mrs. McGoogle my teacher; my father; my mother; the snooty ol’
museum curator and others... |
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step was to do storyboards, sketches of the script, frame by frame.
Then, the Mosers made what is called an "animatic" of those
pictures, marrying the voices of the characters to very basically
animated images. |
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| Next,
the Mosers did a rough animation where I moved through my world by
degrees and angles…and they had to use a lot of yucky math.
Finally, the ink & paint stage… |
The
School Bus |
The
kitchen |
The
classroom |
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| The
Mosers worked so hard and so fast…I heard them say I gave them
a carpa-tunnel! (I’m going to have to look that up…It
sounds spooky!) |
