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Brötje
03-26-2009, 10:36 PM
Hi everybody,

I'm kinda in a fix here. I've been asked to animate a character for a short infomercial about a waterfactory.

The dialogue I have to animate on is BORING and monotone. And sometimes it lasts up to 15 seconds of uninterupted speech. How can I make this interesting? I can't have the character bounce on the screen when the text he says is dull?

I've also asked if it was possible to record all the dialogue again. It isn't.
AlienMonsterRobot
03-27-2009, 07:13 AM
You could go the comedic route: the character/speaker (as a drop of water with glasses and holding a clipboard) appears on-screen seemingly uninterested as he gives a deadpan expression and delivery; there is frenzied activity occurring in the background as he speaks. Think "Ben Stein meets Monty Python."

Maybe there's a small leak in a pipe somewhere that soon becomes a deluge, with several workers (other drops of water with hard hats) scrambling in a humorous manner to contain the spray/burst-- the drops could be "drinking" the water, swelling up like water balloons, or merging together to form some type of giant water wrench/seal to stop the flow.

I could also see a scene in a break room where the "drop workers" are killing time by having [water] drinking contests, or trying to throw and squeeze themselves into paper drinking cups at the other end of the room as if they were playing basketball, with other workers cheering them on...

I'm not sure how much creative liberty they're giving you-- you certainly don't want to lampoon the company or offend anyone-- but playing against the flat dialogue is one idea.
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