The other stuff would be the research I am doing for my graduation thesis. This thesis is supposed to complement my final poject, so it only makes sense that it should be the first thing I finish. That aside, I also want to finish the thing just to get it out of the way. Mind you, I am enjoying my thesis subject, but it is kinda in the way of what I REALLY want to do. So I am trying to plough my way through the thing as fast as possible.
The title of my thesis (as it is now) is 'I'm with Stupid', and it is going to be about comedy between two or more characters. There are lots of thesis at my school about comedy, some thesis about characters, but so far I have found no thesis that really covers the chemistry between two characters. Why is Spongebob with Patrick funny, even if they are both dumb? What is funny about the conflict between Zim and Dib in Invader Zim? This interests me a great deal, as to me, characters are the heart of a cartoon. So I really want to see why some characters work so well together, in order to flesh out my own characters for my final animation.
Right now, I am looking at some books (and reading them too, yes) about comedy in general. Since I will have to cover it anyway, it seems the smart thing to do, is to just get that part over with. After that, I will look somewhat more at the characters themselves (though I have some pretty good ideas already in that area), as well as doing some case studies, which most likely are going to be Spongebob Squarepants and Invader Zim. Funny, I always figured myself a Cartoon Network geek, but end up with two Nickelodeon shows.... Still, Cartoon Network builds on Nick's ideas, so I guess it's kinda logical :).
This was Joost, reporting for duty... now to get some coffee.
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