Previously Meg and I here at Grumpy Moose had decided to try and run with the following idea for our Atomic era inspired animation.
'A day in the life of a dolly housewife. The husband is waved off to
work with his lunch. The daughter helps out cleaning the house and making apple
pie. The dolls world flickers away to reveal the reality. A little girl sits utterly alone in a bomb shelter playing with the dolls. Over the sounds of a radio playing music, the room shakes
with what sounds like a bomb impacting.'
In our brainstorming session over the idea and how it would work I drew up a storyboard, which in the space of a few hours completely evolved again. However all the same we wanted to record its progress. In the images below, the main figure is the housewife doll until reality is exposed and the dolls world is seen to be the little girls fantasy.
The storyboard changed as we realised this was the fantasy of a young girl who is now very alone in a bunker. And her fantasy would be as biased to her dreams as possible. Therefore it would make it more likely that the 'daughter' dolly character would be another version of herself. And like any small child would love to spend time with her mother, learning how to be a good housewife for her future husband. So with this in mind we devised a script, building on this newly evolved idea.
