Right I came up with this idea or the 'cup of tea' project a while ago now, around Christmas in fact and I was ready to come back to uni and get cracking with it, however I then found out quite a few people had a similar idea so I was a bit put off. My idea was basically to have it set in a Chinese dojo and look at ways o getting some martial arts into it. I quickly realised that it's going to be a pretty huge project to do so if I'm going to do it I need to start soon.
So anyway I've decided to go with it it might not be the most original idea anyone has ever seen but as long as I do it really well, all will be good. Well visually I'm going to draw off influences from 'Kung Fu Panda', not with the animals but the scenery that 
is really well modelled and makes you feel like your in China. Also jamie Hewletts 'Monkey' project is a great place to start, I really loved the animation he did for the Beijing Olympics, it had a very distinct Jamie Hewlett style and yet you believed the characters are in China. That's the kind of thing I'm going to be looking to get across with my animation, I want the scenery to be believable and look awesome while the character(s) that interact upon it have a style that I like.
And since this is animation I want my characters to be easy to animate, very cartoonish and most importantly to move well. The one thing that I am most interested in getting into my animation is part of my scenery to break, or smash. I don't want my character to look as though he's just acting on top of some scenery, I want him to look as though he's acting in a scene. I that makes sense, it does to me anyway.
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