Press Pack

The press pack was a very interesting thing to produce, ordinarily i would have preferred to give myself a little extra time and furthermore work with a graphic designer and/or an illustrator to produce a poster, however due to the deadline being in two days and with not enough assets to give anyone else it would be unfair to ask someone else to produce a poster in such a short time frame with such little material to go on. That being said i think i have done particularly well with this poster. I took influence from animation poster such as Up, Ponyo and Little Mermaid which all have quite simple designs. Making the poster also helped me pick a better font, while i dont have time to change the text on the need a ride scene it will be something i can change in the future. I also tried to put in my logo but it didn't really fit in anywhere very well and i am happy for this to be a rough design i alter in the future.

For the four stills i tried to pick ones that were most visually interesting and wont as featured in my trailers, i ended up choosing these four.

Next up was the trailer, for the trailer i initially wanted to make essentially a moving poster to sit on my social media and in the background of a website. I used the assets from the need a ride scene in space to write the title and coming soon, with the occasional text glitch. I would have liked to make the sign rotate completely as to have a seamless loop, however the space station was traveling at a different rate so would not have looped anyway.

Annabeth suggested however that i try to include some of the more frame by frame animation i had done, so i made another one that shows a little more of the action with a small build up and punch line whilst also giving the tone of the film. While shorter than the 30 second loop i feel like it is just as effective.

Next was the Bio, which had elements i was unsure about, however this is because i struggle talking about myself. I feel that i have created a bio that serves me well, not too big headed whilst also not underselling myself, i also kept the photo as loose as possible because it suits my personality for this project well;

Ollie Simons is a Leeds based animator, illustrator and general creative person. He is a generalist animator with experience with all forms of animation while predominantly focusing on digital 2D. He is also experienced with video and audio editing. His future goals are to work internationally, particularly in America and Japan in order to understand their methods of producing animation for an adult audience and hopefully produce similar animation, based in the UK. His previous experience includes producing animation for Light Night, and working with independent musicians to create music videos.


After this i worked on the synopsis for the animation which i tried to keep quite informal because i feel like this would work much better for an online audience. I then decided however that an online audience would be much longer so i also produced a one line description to go with online uploads, however it is pretty weak and needs to be reconsidered:

SYNOPSIS

Have you ever ordered a packaged and wondered how the delivery man’s journey went? Probably not, but when alien planets, dangerous thugs and a train/truck/car/tank’s involved it’s sure to make things interesting. Follow a delivery driver from the future as we see the troubles he faces to do his job. Special Delivery merges elements of American animation, taking influence from shows such as Rick and Morty and Bobs Burgers, with elements of Japanese animation with shows such as One Punch Man and Kill la Kill in order to make the most badass and funny indie animation you’ve seen this year.

SYNOPSIS FOR YOUTUBE/VIMEO DESCRIPTION

Props to delivery drivers, they really do go above and beyond.