The project of animated series tells the story of Fercus' life, a shy and extremely disorganized dinosaur who lives alone on a house with his pet Furiko, a cute-drunk iguana. Like every other teenager he attends a School, but this School is overrun by supernatural forces and makes many students change completely their personality while on it. That way, Fercus goes from shy and stressed to hyperactive and psychotic. His world is dominated by machines, all the dinosaurs formed very under them and that makes most of them submitted.

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• Episodes Guide
• Concept Art

• Animation Tests
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• The Project

Faneria Planet

The planet was a living place, with a beautiful nature and fresh air. Dinosaurs roamed there, but they was wild beasts.
One day, a bizarre ship landed on Faneria, and then, creatures never seen before emerge. They were metallic beings, some looked like birds, others like dragons. These “creatures”, without emotions and devoid of compassion, were able to do whatever they wanted: take possession of this planet.
They soon realized that the most abundant animals were the dinosaurs, and did not take long for them to deforest almost everything, water became increasingly scarce, and now the dinosaurs could only find their way by digging deep. Thirsty for power and with a cruel desire to see suffering, the machines (now in large numbers) took the dinosaurs and subjected them to scientific experiments. Even though intelligent reptiles, the machines still had a supernatural control over them, and wanted to see their suffer; they “fed” on others suffering.

The School

Hundreds of years later, the machines built one of the largest buildings on the planet. And it's a School. Now the dinosaurs are endowed with enormous intelligence, and the machines ended up failing, they underestimated the dinos too much. That's why they take all the young and force them to attend the School, doing a kind of brainwashing. Those who don't attend are killed or subjected to extremely painful slavery, working in the Great Slaughterhouse or even inside the School.
Most of the teachers are machines. The headmaster is also a machine and extremely technological, with supernatural strength, even the others of it's kind have fears on it. The carnivorous study in the morning and the herbivores at night. By a natural reflex, the herbivores are terrified of the carnivores and live in underground worlds just not to be seen by the meat-eaters.

Environment

Despite being devastated, the machines left a healthy patch of land on the planet, and the dinosaurs calls it “The Lost Woods”. In there have crystal caves, forests, lakes and a huge variety of invertebrates, mostly gigantic centipedes and dragonflies. Lizards and snakes also live in abundance, the most dangerous beast there is Megalania. As the air is pure, the night sky is starry and you can even see nebulae, there is strict surveillance at the entrance to this place to prevent the dinosaurs from entering, but even so, some managed to enter and never returned, because they became wild again. There is a very strong energy in Lost Woods, which in a matter of hours, returns them to savagery. The machines left this green space to generate at least a little oxygen for the creatures on the planet, so that they can stay alive and continue to enslave them. There is little greenery in the cities, especially in Cybertek. The plant-eaters still have a bigger problem: finding food. They risk their lifes going to the Lost Woods to try to collect some vegetables and fruits, many have a poor diet, eating mostly dirt.

Cybertek

At first it seems normal, there are stores, markets selling mouseburgers, sweet shops, pet stores and even amusement parks created by machines. They love to feed on adrenaline too. The buildings are characterized by huge tubes and cables, which come out of their sides and tops. In some buildings, these cables serve as “bridges”. Few trees can be seen by Cybertek, most of them are dead. Some birds, such as crows and ravens, hide in abandoned places.

Punishment and Shadows

In the world of Faneria, there is no shortage of punishment and unnecessary rules, but nothing compares to what the students suffer at the School. Those who disobey the rules are subjected to psychological torture and macabre implants. Some dinosaurs look more like machines than organic beings due to the many metal parts that have been attached to their bodies. But most of the students do not have these implants, because they respect the rules. A machine with “supernatural” powers created by the School’s headmaster, located in the Touch-and-It’s-Dead room, generates shadows/spirits that stalk the students who arrive at the School. All of them, without exception, suffer psychological changes and, in more serious cases, visual changes. If the dinosaur slept too much in class, he is punished with mechanic parts that keep his eyes open; If someone eats too much during class, they are then forced to wear an iron mask. The classes can be practical or theoretical, and most of the dinosaurs are taught to submit to the supreme beings of the planet (the machines).
Not only are implants used as punishment, but some students are also killed and embalmed. In the headmaster's room, where few souls enter, you can see many of dead students, some with only their heads. Some adult dinosaurs who disobey the rules are punished by having to work as slaves at the School, and can be cooks or cleaners. The cooks who work in the cafeterias are all Therizinosaurus, simply because this species is very stubborn and consequently does not obey the machines. Another form of punishment is for children, which is simply to bury them up to their necks in the playground, and they stay there until it's time to leave School.

Pets

Some dinosaurs live with pets, and these are always reptiles: lizards, snakes, turtles and even crocodiles. They get these reptiles from pet stores and The Lost Woods, where some brave dinosaurs manage to enter and capture them. Reptiles (especially lizards and snakes) are very smart, some communicate with their owners using telepathy.

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Meet the characters!

Is always fascinating creating literally a new life, and this can takes time and a lot of effort to "make it alive". They need a good design, a complex personality and way of move.
The characters are inspired in dinosaurs and other reptiles.

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Technical Sheet

CREATOR: Camila Alli Chair Montà
CO-CREATOR: Rodrigo Henrique Gomes
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: "Python Blue"
COLLABORATIONS: Natalia Zangarine, Karen C. Leonardi, Augusto Henrique, Doug Batista, Jefferson Modesto, Adam E. Wyeth, Brooks Leibe
GENRE: dark humor/horror
CENSORSHIP: 14 yrs.
CONTAINS: alcohol consumption, use of weapons, moderate violence, bullying.
DURATION: 11 minutes each episode, with specials running into 15 minutes approx.
DATE: indeterminate

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Episodes Guide

• Pilot Episode

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Creating a Whole World...

It's not easy! To create another world, so different from ours, we need to make a lot of drawing tests, and it can takes a lot of effort and creativity. Some of the characters took a few years to "complete" the design and some of the places are still on study.

• Main Characters

• World

• Episodes Concepts

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Creating Life!

Here are some of the studies made for the creation of the characters for School of Insanity.

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Chaotic World

Some concepts of the environment of their world called Faneria, a cold and sad planet with a changing-color moon.The School - A colossal School where many of the stories happens. In there (and all over their world, actually) robotic beings are in control and feed with the pain of the students. The place is dark and have a long entrance hall where phantasmagoric things happens, turning all the students into their other ego.
The Lost Woods - In such a devastated world, is there a huge and unique natural place, where wild animals live. In there, dinosaurs are forbidden by the mechanical didactors (the robots) because they can turns into wild beasts again by the Nature's force and being potentially dangerous for the machines. This place is beautiful, the only way the dinos can see the beauty of a starry night and feel the fresh air.
Dinosaur's Home - All the dinosaurs (and other reptiles) live almost like "normal" civilians, in houses, apartments an even in the underground, like the herbivores. Many of them keep reptiles as pets, such lizards, snakes, tortoises and crocodilians.
Faneria - Faneria is the name of their planet. They don't have a lot of cities, in there is just a vast chaotic world (the concentration of buildings is called Cybertek) with a colossal School and dinosaurs surviving, suffering of many ways in the cold claws of the mechanical beasts that invaded Faneria millions of years ago.

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"Herping with Furiko" is a spin-off of the project called "School of Insanity". It will have Furiko (Fercu's pet) as main character and will feature his own adventures with his friends Velca and Zilla. For now have only a few ideas for stories, but here in this section, are some of the artworks made for this smaller project.

"The Secret Side"
episode-test

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Arts for Episodes

To imagine the whole idea for the episodes, I have to make more and more studies. Here, are some of the artworks studies for some of the episodes. A lot of it changed over the years.

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Animating the Characters

Example of two animation tests made for the project.

Above, an example of an animation with a fully clean up of the teacher.

Above, an example of an animation with a fully clean up of the main character, Fercus.

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The Most Important Episode!

It is taking a loooong time to finish it, due external problems. But someday, it's GONNA BE FINISHED.
After this animation get concluded, I will try to find a studio or maybe
resources to have a team for helping with all the episodes.
This episode is animated only by one person (me, Camila). It is being animated using an old school light table, pencils, pens (for clean up) and painting in Photoshop CS6.
Some camera effects are made by Natalia Zangarine.
THERE IS NO DATE FOR THE RELEASE.

• Arts of the Pilot

Episode Summary

Fercus, a shy and anxious dinosaur goes to the School and leaves his pet called Furiko, at home. At School, he gets insane and mad when pass thru the main hall, and leaves his new friend (Dusky) in danger, pulling one of the small cables attached to his body, due to an implant made by the evil machines. When Fercus returns home, he finds his pet Furiko, making a huge mess with his reptiles friends.

Animatic

Above, a colored animatic finalized many years ago. It is very amateur and for the final fully animated pilot, it will have a lot of changes. The sound and soundtracks will be changed too with better quality.

Scene Test

Above, an early idea for the final scene, but now; it will have changes in the final version. This one was made as a test, only. Made in 2010.

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