Character Appearance and Scene layout

In a typical adaptation style I have decided to turn all the characters in the scene into an animal counterpart.

Batman being 'BAT'man the obvious choice would be to have his character be a bat, though I'm not sure if I like the thought of Batman still being a bat. I could make Batman be a different animal and try make it seem ironic, but which animal I'll use if that is the case, I don't yet know.

I quite liked the thought of the Joker being a rabbit, purely because you can make a rabbit look quite erratic, having said that you could probably do the same thing with a lot of other animals, plus Andy used rabbits as an example in the seminar and I don't want to appear to be directly ripping ideas from other people. However, as it stands, a rabbit is still my most desired animal for a Joker style character. My thoughts flick to the Rabbit from Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland.

Commissioner Gordon seems the most difficult to pin a character too. He’s only seen very briefly at the start of the scene but he sort of sets it up for Batman so I would prefer to keep him in the scene, but as for what character I'll portray him as is a different story. I like the idea of him being some sort of Walrus, used in childhood cartoons to portray old men. The actual character from the film is quite thin so it won't accurately represent him but I suppose it's an adaptation, it doesn't have to stay true to the original!

I would prefer for the scene to stay true to the original, a dark poorly lit square room, which when illuminated is quite overwhelming in contrast. We’ve been talking about making everything within the animation consistent, so although I’ve changed the original cast to their animal counterparts I’d still like to keep the room the same. For the sake of keeping theme I have considered keeping the layout roughly the same but maybe making the interior (as that’s all we can see anyway) look a bit more like the wooden house seen in Disney’s Tarzan at the start of the film, possibly composed of bamboo/realistic wooden branches and rope ties with maybe a lantern for light instead of modern day lighting.