Animal Collections Update

Sat down and started thinking logically what I need to organise with my 'animals' animation...

The technique... I know I'm hand drawing, but there's a few ways of getting the images into digital format to put together in final cut/after effects to build the final animation....
Do I hand cut out each animal and place on a green screen and take photos?
Do I scan/photograph each drawing and in photoshop cut out the images I need?
If I'm using a background, (which I would like to...) do I insert this into each drawing? Or once the animals are cut out, do I just have one separate layer in my composition that is created as the background, that I simply animate over the top of


The background.... do I want a busy animated background, although this creates more work, it may give me animation more depth and make it more interesting - kind of creature comforts style?
Do I create a plain background, (with a hint of colour?) which is a simple pattern, perhaps resembling a wallpaper? polka dots/stripes/checkered?
Do I just stick to no background at all, just save myself the hassle and have a hand sketched black & white animal chatting away?

Text to be featured.... titles? (I need a title?!), introduction or final credits run? Do I need an introduction, or does that not just ruin the idea in the first place... just hope that people understand by the end of the animation! Or will the title give a hint to what's going on? Or do I end with a sum up of text that explains what has just happened? ... Essentially it's a collection of interviews - and interviews don't need an intro/end point, they're fairly self explanatory... so I'm thinking just a title.

The title.... Do I play with the words 'collection', 'animals', 'interview', 'opinions'....
do I use a play on words, work with what I've got... use some of the answers I've been given, 'i like cheese!' .... make the audience wonder a little more, catch their attention instead of thinking literally and stating the obvious for them?


How to end... just fade to black? Finish with a quote/text on screen? Some kind of credits... 'Animation by Jodie Curley'/ audio by ..... names listed (would need to check and get consent from the people who lent me their voices!) This would mean I need some sounds/music to go over the credits, they can't really run in silence...  hmmmm...

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