UPDATE: 1/22

ATTENTION ANIMATORS AND ILLUSTRATORS!

Here's an update with what we need:

1. Can we get more animated characters for the background?  There are great illustrations of people already contributed, would be great if we could have them animated.  For exacmple:  check out the ones Jana did for Ben Franklin, The Little Girl, and the cop?  Arms moving, that sort of thing.


2. Illustrations of people taking photos with cameras.  They can be animated, too!

UPDATE:  1/21

ATTENTION ILLUSTRATORS AND ANIMATORS!

There have been some awesome illustrations and animations contributed to the 'Lights Off - episode2' collaboration so far.  Now we some more! :oD

What we need:

CHARACTERS:

• Founding Fathers / Mothers — Thomas Jefferson, Betsy Ross, George Washington, James Madison


• Mobs of Protestor

SETS

• Wall Street scene — maybe include some recognizable Wall Street landmarks like the Bull, or the NYSE building.

OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

• Illustrations of Police officers doing dirty deads — cop littering, selling drugs, beating a homeless person, assaulting a peaceable protester with pepper spray at close range, exposing himself to an old lady.


• Illustrations of technology:  iPhones, computers, cameras, etc.

ANIMATION

• The lyrics of the chorus with a bouncing ball — sing-a-long style. :)

OK, I think this is all for now — this is gonna be awesome! :oD

<3

J

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Calling all Animators, all Illustrators, we are working with The Gregory Brothers on a second episode of the HITRECORD classic, They Can't Turn The Lights Off Now! And it's on the books to be screened at Sundance next week!

Episode One rallied behind Gay Civil rights, Episode 2 discusses the civil liberty to record Police and Law Enforcement officers throughout the country. Certain states in the USA have actually taken steps to outlaw anyone from photographing and video taping their local law enforcement, a direct slap in face to the First Amendment. 

That's why The Gregory Brothers remixed the "Lights Off" music and wrote a new story with new lyrics and characters that addresses this concern.  What they have made is fucking awesome!

And now it's our turn to start designing and animating the short film. 

Here's what to do:

ILLUSTRATORS -

Design the 3 main characters:

1. The Kid with the Camera


2. The Policeman


3. An Angelic Benjamin Franklin who comes to educate us all

Design Background Settings:

• Listen to the song that The Gregory Brothers have contributed and read the script to learn the settings and environments.   


• Watch Episode One and School House Rock to get a sense of the style we are looking for.  

Also, it'd be great if you can contribute your character designs along with the limbs, head, and torso seperated, so that animators can have total control and ease while animating. 

Animators - Once we get some good Character and Setting designs, start animating!  But please do it as simply as you can.  The idea is to get this done in 7 days to be screened at Sundance!

Okay, get to work!

Thanks Again

<3

J