This was a project outside of Uni that both me and Anthony worked on together, unfortunately to say it didn't turn out the way we had hoped. If you have read his blog you should know which animation I am talking about, it is none other than Party Quest. We both worked on this project along side with out University work and both took the role as animators, though I only did the backgrounds and the inbetween animation. I thought the last client was bad, I didn't know bad until this guy. Below is the video of the animation before its finalization:
This animation could have been good, it had potential, however the script was awful, the characters the client told Anthony to animate were worse and the client thought it was the best idea ever.... even though the plot has been done before. Basically the plot was about 4 characters who are in a role playing game who have adventures, this seems familiar: Example, example and example. They are all different animations however the plot is still the same, an animation like this won't make it as a series, let alone a well paid series. The client 's original plan was to make 3 episodes of this, send it to a sponsor to get a sponsorship and then get the money back he uses to pay us with each episode. In the end he couldn't get a sponsor and tried putting the animation on a kickstarter page so he could get money for the animation series to be produced, the money he was asking for was £70,000... that's right he wanted £70,000 for a animated show with a poorly written plot that has been done hundreds of times before, featuring annoying characters and animated using models. This plan backfired and when everyone saw the animation and the money he wanted for said animation they spammed hateful comments on the video leaving the client no choice but to take the original video down leaving the project over.
The client was alot more understanding and much nicer than the last, giving us time to do our university work, actually paying us to do it and keeping in contact with us. I communicated with him through Anthony and those two messaged each other about the work. Once the project was released I didn't speak to him and Anthony had to deal with the client asking him for advice and such. Though the client was nice there was something very funny about what he was asking us to do, he was telling us to insert characters taking off other characters, for instance he was very insistent of inserting a character representing a character from the TV show My Little Pony who goes by the name of Derpy Hooves. After this Anthony was asked to create a logo for the animation, the example he gave us was clearly ripping off the logo from the TV show Adventure Time.
I don't have much to say as Anthony was the one who communicated with the client the most, however I did take one thing away from this experience: If a client wants to hire you for something, be sure to check what it is before you accept, who knows what cat people with annoying voices he'll have you animating.
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