Many of you will wonder where the idea for fur-breeze (working title - suggestions welcome) came from. The idea has gone through many stages of development. Initially Dave and I both had our own ideas for what the 4th year film should be. I had plans to continue our first semester idea "Depth" by looking into how the main character dweeb is created on a production line (like in a car manufacturing plant). That would have been god fun to create and animate, with lots of possibilities regarding visual effects. My other idea was about Revolutionary Terrorist Gorrillas (R.T.G) fighting to free the african rainforests from the oppression of logging companies, farmers and hunters. Led by Che` Gorrilla the band of freedom fighters would lay waste to the infrastructure of the surrounding lands.
Dave initially thought about a zoo set in the future that has become run-down and dilapadated (Abes Odessey style) and is now patrolled by robots. These robots are bored from the lack of visitors and decide to turn on their animal subjects. Taking matters into their own hands, the animals set up plans to escape "Great escape meets madagascar" style. Then one day over coffee, Dave and I decided it woukd be funnier if the robots were torturing the animals in humerous and ridiculous ways. Bears and monkeys being shot out of cannons at giant targets painted on mountains miles away, James Bond esque torture scenes with laser beams and gas, and solitary confinement cells where animals plot ways to escape.
The idea then changed into more of a p.o.w camp for animals with robots as the guards. We discussed multiple settings for the idea, thinking it could either be on a spaceship heading for a new planet, whith the animals oblivious to the fact that they are in space, or it could be set on earth far in the future where people no longer bother about zoos.
After all of this we decided focussing on one main character would be better than trying to show an entire zoo worth of animals and robots, so we came up with the idea of Boris the skunk being ignored and outcast by the crowds of people in the zoo. To keep robots involved in the story, we made boris construct a huge machine to help him exact his anger on the other inhabitants. Later on we decided to include the smelly youth ( a young enthusiastic fan of the zoo, who is most excited about seeing the skunk) in the film to help bring an end to boris` reign of terror by making him the only fan of the enraged skunk. The skunks main reason for setting of on a swathe of destruction was that he had no fans and was left on his own everyday. The smelly youth could be the one to bring balance back to the zoo?
