Trust no-one...

The underlying theme throughout the island of Dr_sandwich, if one exists, is that appearances can be deceiving. After a briefing from some kind of top secret military organisation, a ninja is sent to infiltrate a mysterious castle on the island of Focaccia del loco, locate Dr Sandwich and eliminate him. Upon his arrival he discovers that it is Dr Sandwich's birthday. Before he can eliminate Dr Sandwich, the ninja learns that he hasn't been told the whole story of Dr Sandwich's creation. Convinced that the doctor is not as evil as he's made out to be, the ninja joins the party celebrations and gets drunk. Some days later, the ninja (who turns out to be a monkey) is debriefing his superiors on the situation but before he can finish an enormous robot being driven by a maniacal Dr Sandwich smashes through the roof and laughs at those within, declaring that they're foolish to assume that a 15 billion year old super intelligent sandwich would be dumb enough to reveal his plans to some idiot monkey who breaks into his house trying to kill him. The aftermath of the story tells of Dr Sandwich's reign of terror lasting for only a few brief weeks before he was eaten by a cute little puppy.

According to some stuff I read about supervillains and what makes a good one, they should always be cool, calm and wherever possible quote shakespeare.

A villain needs a motive

I've thought about an evil sandwich as a character for a long time. It has taught me that sometimes one's own imagination can be one's own worst enemy. Every time I thought of a new situation to put him into, it never seemed quite right. I have wanted to include the origins of Dr sandwich as well as putting him into a story of some sort. Over the past few days I made the decision to make this freakin sandwich story once and for all and then I can move on with my life... or don't make it and not think about it again for a long long time.

So I spent some time last night and today coming up with a whole new idea invloving cats and dogs and so on and so forth. Then it suddenly made sense to me... The sandwich has no motivation. It's not nearly enough to simply exist, ne needs something to do. So what's the motivation for an evil sandwich?...

Take over the world... what else. But Dr_sandwich has been floating in space for 15 billion years, so he's not going to be one of those 'reveal my plans to the world and place my nemesis in an easily escapeable situation, before leaving the room and assuming everything goes according to plan' type villains. So I thought, what would I do if I were a supervillain? Among other things, I wouldn't go around broadcasting it to the world and telling every secret agent that broke into my mansion exactly what I intended to do. I'd either shoot him on the spot, or just simply deny my evilness and get him drunk so he thinks I'm a harmless and fabulously wealthy 15 billion year old talking sandwich...

The other problem has been deciding on a visual style to adhere to for this project. I'm intending to combine several styles of hand drawn animation with a balance of movement and still images. The justification also being that the story line will jump through several periods of time, location and action, each with their own colour and line types...

The complexities of an evil sandwich

Welcome to my blog.

The purpose of it's existence is to keep track of the ongoing production process for an animated film I'm making. I'm studying Animation and Interactive media at RMIT university, Melbourne. The animated piece I'm making is my major project for this course.

I've spent some of my spare time over the past few years writing and drawing bits and pieces which I hoped would one day be published in one way or another. I wanted to do a piece about a supervillain who is an evil sandwich, but at this point I'm still keeping my options open. We'll have to wait and see...