I wanted my character to be expressive with its facial features, which meant I needed to set up a number of different facial expressions which I would be able to morph between. I also wanted it to be cute. In ‘Rockin’ Bones’ I had 2 pretty Bad Ass character, and in ‘Hatching a Fairy’ I had a pretty animation, but cute was something I wanted to attempt, again trying to show a variety in my work.

In searching for some images on the internet I found the perfect precedent for this character: Spyro.

He’s just soooooooo cuuuute!

This cute characteristic was something I wanted to have influence my storyline. Somewhere in my short movie I wanted to create a scene similar to that of the Puss in Boots shot in Shrek 2. I obviously don’t have the skills DreamWorks have but I still wanted to pull something like it off. I noticed the key to that scene was the music that went with it; it was almost like a lullaby.

1. Robert comes home from shopping

2. Robert walks through the door, closes it, and unloads a chicken onto the bench

3. While leaving the chicken unattended, the door can be heard opening – the camera rotates to show an open door with the dragon sneaking in

4. While Robert unpacks the rest of the shopping he hears something (the sound of the dragon munching on the chicken). When Robert returns his attention to the chicken the dragon will be eating it.

5. Robert is shocked to see a dragon eating his chicken and puts it outside

6. The dragon looks up with cute expression at Robert at the door. Robert close door on Dragon

7. A sigh of relief by Robert but when he turn to the chicken, the dragon had magically reappeared inside and eaten the whole thing!

8. Robert, not happy about his stolen dinner, reaches for the frying pan and chases dragon out of the house.

9. The end

The story was clearly going to have a comical feel to it so it needed a comical collection of music to go with it. I decided on a mixture of cartoon style themes which seemed fitting.