Friday, December 13, 2013



So here are some brief descriptions:

Madelynn “Maddie” is the more level-headed of the two, but is likely to get riled up regardless from whatever mischief her husband seems to get into. She takes things more seriously when it comes to her work, but definitely has a sense of fun and humor as well. Enjoys videogames in any downtime she can manage.
Darren on the other hand, is definitely a lot more wild in personality with snark and sass in bounds. Also famed for his borderline magical ability to counteract actual magic through his sheer stubbornness. Being a tenacious butthole has somehow worked to his advantage. But really he can be sweet in his ways and cares about what he does a lot, and obviously his wife.

And as a pair, they have their difference and bicker often, but their love is strong and always like to challenge the other. Squabbling is honestly just what they do. They first met back in college in the debate club and became a couple after getting into a vigorous argument that worked it’s way outside the club until the finally broke it off into an angry makeout session and made up their differences. haha
The two ended up doing professional babysitting since it was something they both found a passion for with children, but also because they couldn’t have children of their own. They have a tendency as well, to have a reputation with magical/fairytale type families and coming to the Candy House has not been their first. Maddie was born into a magical family without having powers for herself and Darren entered into their world through her. Only more adventures seem to await the young couple through the frightening world of babysitting (oh and magic too…)
 This is a story idea on a modern take for Hansel & Gretel, but it’s really not what you would expect. In fact, these two aren’t even the Hansel & Gretel in this story. They are Maddie and Darren, a young married couple that do nanny work for a living and their next stop here is a crazy witch’s house made of candy where 3 of her children reside, Hansel, Easton, and the youngest Gretel. There will be many ridiculous shenanigans regarding magic and the most terrifying of all: babysitting.

It’ll be fun haha.

I’m going to be doing a storyboard/animatic for a possible trailer with it for my portfolio and I think it might be really great to have some actual audio involved for once and have voices for these two to show their dynamic. And also just want to show a variation of what I can do for the portfolio and I might go with this choice for an animatic if I pic one to show in a demo reel.