Creative Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes, but mainly in the form of existing films..

So I’ve had a brainwave (is that still politically correct? Hopefully I won’t offend any epileptic surfers), I was watching Tim Burtons, Alice in Wonderland last night and really liked the scene near the end of the film where both sides meet on the giant checked board, surrounded by ruins. At this point I remembered what Andy had said about the fight scene for my animation, I liked the idea of the room falling away and both Batman and ‘The Joker’ falling downwards whilst fighting. Sort of like the initial falling down the rabbit hole in Alice and Wonderland. My idea is that, as the Joker reveals to Batman that the only way he’ll get what he wants is to break his (his being batman) “One Rule”, at this point the walls get ripped/blown away to reveal a giant two themed board. One side of the board will be over the top, crazy and generally joker-themed, where as the other side will be quite dark, a little scary but with something symbolic of justice, indicating Batman side.

Now I’m thinking have some arcade style fighting game narration (i.e. “READY! FIGHT!” and “K.O.” – similar to the likes of ‘Tekken’ and ‘Street Fighter’) along with health bars, name plates and possibly time left and rounds. Using After Effects I could add glows to fists for when they make contact to simulate other existing games. Hopefully this will contribute to the style I’m going for with the fight. The fight will end with Jokers health bar hitting zero, the fight narrate shouting “K.O.” and Joker telling Batman where both locations of the victims are, at which point Batman will either simply leave via the door (same as original scene) or go back to his roots and using the trusty Bat-Grappling hook and to fly out of there in a typical batman style!