I saw ur carriage ride animation! It’s phenomenal! Are you gonna make animations for every chapter/every pivotal scene? Cause that would be so cool!! I could watch an entire series in your style (especially if it’s an accurate adaptation of Dracula)
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The carriage ride animation was part of my class's end-of-the-year presentation on projects everyone had to work on. Now, most people just did it for the grade (understandable), but I changed my original plan mid-year because I realized this might be my opportunity to work on an adaptation of Dracula we might actually enjoy – because I'm actually trying to pitch it into a movie!
In November, I will attend, by grace of my school director, a convention where I will meet representatives of various animation studios and TV producers alongside fellow animation students.
So, me and @catsvrsdogscatswin have partnered to work on this, and have made extensive research (mostly on her end) and are writing scripts, making character sheets, drawing storyboards, and preparing for anything we might need. Everything I've posted up until now (with the exception of memes) will be in our portfolio.
Our selling point is that this will be an adaptation as accurate to the original story as possible, with the intended metaphors and narrative of the novel (we're quite read up on Stoker's personal life to try and see how he intended it to be read), AND as accurate to its era as possible - not just with the English characters, but the Eastern European ones as well. This way, it could even serve as an academic alternative for anyone that doesn't want to read the book (and would enjoy 2D animation).
Hand-drawn animation and gothic/vampire horror are the hot topic of the moment with recent successful movies, and people miss more serious animation like the iconic villains of older films as well as actual passion over cash-grabs. So we're not gonna pull any punches or try and spin it into a hallmark romantic tragedy and give it all the horror and dramatic suspense of the original novel. We will tackle subjects like Victorian gender roles, xenophobia, racism, male and female survivors of sexual violence, classism, the sociopolitical issues faced by Romani people, different aspects of Christianity, girlhood, ableism and the triumph of the human spirit, which will be the main metaphor. Also, as my dad helpfully added, rebelling against a powerful rich man, which might interest some viewers.
If everything goes very, very well, someone will be interested in picking up our project and making it into a reality!
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