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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• About This World
• Characters

• Episodes Guide
• Concept Art

• Species
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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. Faneria was basically made up of swamps, where the largest concentration of herbivores were located. The caves were made of crystals, they looked almost surreal, some animals took shelter there during rainy seasons. Everything was extremely balanced.
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, which now made them more intelligent. 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 machines “reproduce” themselves simply by building others and the technology is so advanced that in minutes a new robot appears.

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 (children and teenagers) 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.
The School is colossal, including to prevent them from getting lost, the young students are subjected to a small implant under their skin to "guide" them around the environment. If they can't find the exit, it beeps and tells them directions, like a GPS.
The School environment is basically made up of the library, cafeterias, classrooms, laboratories and sports court. 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 students 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.

The School is a giant place where all the young dinosaurs comes to...survive.

Animals and the 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. In their chaotic world, meat-eaters feed on rodents such as rats, mice, rabbits and chinchillas. The machines know this and have created a gigantic slaughterhouse for these animals, and in addition to them, many dinosaurs work as slaves there, cruelly killing the little mammals. 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.
The groups of dinosaurs on the planet are: theropods, sauropods, ceratopsids, ornithopods and thyreophorans. There are also pterosaurs, which are mostly wild and live on the streets, usually huddled under roofs. Some, from larger species, study at School. There are no marine reptiles, after all, there are no more oceans. The sky during the day is yellowish, and at dusk it can vary between red and orange. The clouds are always black.

Dinosaur Anatomy

They are the most different animals; they walk on two legs and with an upright posture. They all have prehensile tails, serving as a fifth limb. Some carnivores have feathers on their bodies, with the largest concentration usually being on the head. The most common species of carnivore is Velociraptor and the most common herbivore is Triceratops. The smaller ones tend to be even more feathered, such as Troodon or Archaeopteryx.

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. The machines agreed to build this shadow generator because they believe that their students will pay more attention in class – but that is not exactly what happens. The implants can vary greatly. 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). The practical classes usually take place in the laboratory, where they learn about their ancestors and when they were wild. This type of class serves as a nostalgic psychological torture. Several dinosaur bones and open animals are even displayed there.
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.

The students are always scared to death when the teacher speaks.

The teacher "Great Eagle", as the dinosaurs refers to it, showing in a big screen what can happens if they don't obey their rules.

Allan and Dip are examples of students that already suffered some implants as punishment on their bodies.

Their Culture

Some dinosaurs created “tribes,” and the largest and most famous of them are the goths. All of them wear a black plastic garment around their necks that goes down to their waists. Trenchcoats, combat boots, and gloves are also part of it, but unfortunately goths are insulted by members of their own species for looking too grotesque, after all, it's “normal” for dinosaurs to walk around without clothes. There are rocker dinosaurs and those who like psychedelia, who usually wear colorful, striped socks, as well as extravagant boots with spikes. But despite looking aggressive, they are usually the friendliest dinosaurs. Machines do not interfere in anything that concerns their culture.

Pets

Dinosaurs are evolved reptiles with avian characteristics, especially the carnivores. Some 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.

Furiko and his friends Zilla and Velca are pets. They are regular small reptiles.

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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, since it is an animation idea. To create some of them, tooks more than a year to finish.
The characters are inspired in dinosaurs and other reptiles.

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Inspired Animals

The cartoony characters next to their inspired animals. Some of them can looks different just for a better design.

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Technical Sheet

The animation will be done entirely in traditional 2-D. Since it will be quite comical, the exaggerated expressions will be more manageable if done this way. The soundtrack will be based on a dark and depressive tone.

Above, an early short animation of the project, made in 2011.

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.

• The Characters

• World

• Episodes Concepts

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Creating Life!

Here are some of the many studies made for the creation of the characters for this series.
Many of them was hard to find the best design! Some of them have changed over the years, due to paleontological new discoveries as feathers on some species and even art style.

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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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Fan Art

Over the years, the project received a lot of amazing fan arts from talented people. It's amazing to see all the diversity of styles and works here.
I'm very grateful for all the love and care given to this project. Actions like these give me the strength to continue this hard work, but so important to me.

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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!

Some animation tests were made over the years for the zero episode (pilot). 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.

• Almost There

Above is a sketchy animation of Fercus.

Above, a fully completed scene (early test) of the final part of the episode.

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Animatic and Summary

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

Above, the soundtrack for Dusky's scene in the laboratory of the School. It will be used for the final version of the pilot.
Made by "Python Blue".

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.

Above, the animatic made years ago for the pilot.

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Some Artworks for the Pilot

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Comics of the Project

A few (til now) comics were made to illustrate the episodes of the project. They are kind of a resume of what the episode will be, someday.

• Comic 1

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The Surprise Comes Under

This is what happens when Furiko (a pet) got scared with himself and goes to the School begging for help.

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Parents-Robots Meeting

Fercus is in trouble! Today he have to bring his parents to the Parents and Teachers Meeting. If he didn't, he will be quartered.
Now his life is in Dusky's claws...Or should be in Kylu's?

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