From looking at the other football intros and promos you can see that they always include the best footballers and moments of all time and in the case of the animated promo for the BBC (Japan and South Korea) and the intros for recent World cups for TV shows they include only the best footballers in the world at that time.
Also you can see that on many of the intros for football TV shows for English broadcast they like to place a few more moments of English players and the moments within the sequence.
So after noting the above i have looked at all the teams in this years World Cup and looked through the squads to see which players are instantly recognisable (superstars) that most people in England would know too.
There are more players that would be recognisable but i have chosen these players below because i believe they are more recognisable and if the animation i make was to be broadcast in other countries (hypothetically) i would hope that the they would be recognisable there too.
Highlighted in yellow are the players I will most likely be including in the animation because they are superstars, also in some cases i will be including English players because the animation is for English TV and in i will also be looking to include a few South African footballers.
South Africa -S. Pienaar, A. Mokoena, B.McCarthy
Mexico - Marquez, Salcido, Ochoa,
Uruguay - Forlan, Luis Suarez
France - Anelka, Ribery, Henry, Gallas, Evra, L.Diarra
Argentina - Messi, Tevez, S. Aguero, Mascherano
Nigeria - Martins, Obi Mikel, Yobo, Yakubu
South Korea - Park Ji Sung
Greece - Samaras, Kyrgiakos
England - Rooney, Beckham, R.Ferdinand, Terry, Gerrard, Lampard
USA - Dempsey, L.Donavon, T.Howard, Beasley
Algeria - Belhadj, Karim Ziani
Slovenia - Robert Koren, Novakovic
Germany - Ballack, Klose, Schweinsteiger, Mertesacker, Lahm
Australia - Kewell, T.Cahill, Schwarzwe, Lucas Neill
Serbia - Vidic, Kezman, Zigic, Kuzmanovic, Ivanovic
Ghana - Essien, Mensah, Muntari
Netherlands - Robben, V.Persie, De jong, Babel, Van Der Vaart, Sneijder, Heitinga
Denmark - Bendtner, Agger, Poulsen
Japan - Nakamura
Cameroon - Eto'o, Kameni, Emana, Geremi, J.Makoun
Italy - Buffon, Del Piero, De Rossi, Chiellini, Luca Toni
Paraguay - Santa Cruz, O. Cardoza
New Zealand - Ryan Nelson
Slovakia - Skrtel, Hamsik
Brazil - Kaka, Ronaldinho, Lucio, Maicon, Robinho, Daniel Alves, Marcelo, Pato
North Korea - Pak Nam-Chol
Ivory Coast - Drogba, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure, Zokora, Eboue
Portugal - C.Ronaldo, Carvalho, Simao, Quaresma
Spain - Casillas, Torres, Villa, Ruyol, Sergio, Ramos, Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta
Switzerland - Senderos, Frei, Gelson Fernandez, Barnetta
Honduras - Palacios
Chile - Luis Jimenez, Marias Fernandez
Style of animation
From looking at trends in animation from the cartoon networks you can see some key points such as the animations use bright colours (to keep the child's attention), the characters are over exaggerated in their movements and expressions and the adventures the characters get up to are over the top. I've also noticed that with more 3D animations being made the style of rendering is becoming simpilar for cartoons, such as for the Ironman animated series it looks as if they use a toon render giving it harder lines, flat colours and only having one colour for shading which to me resembles flash animation slightly (only in the rendering purpose).
Script direction
Through my research i came across many websites and forums based here and abroad but i was especially glad to have come across the forums about South Africa where people from South Africa spoke about the stereotypes many people have and how people forget it has modern cities and it is a developing country. I definately think that is a valid view and to be honest at the start of this project i probably would have not thought about this and would have headed for the more obvious route also because i am aiming this at a younger audience i think it would be a great way of educating kids on South Africa and also it could help to re-educate older people too. So taking this into consideration i now am going to think about incorporating more modern cities of South Africa throughout the animation but i do also want to include some historical sides of South Africa too.
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