Animation Idea

For my 2D animation assignment, I plan to use my storyboard story as it is there and can be easily realized for the animation.

Because of the setting of the story, I wanted my style to reflect the age group I'm portraying aka young kids, so I wanted my style to be similar to that of animations aimed for them. 

A style I have thought about was something similar to Aladdin the TV Series. It uses fairly average line thickness and uses one tonal colouring. The design is also fairly simple. The background on the other hand uses a more detailed approach.

One thing though is that I don't actually want to use colour in animation. I want it to be black and white from the namesake origins. Film Noir. I believe it just adds more to the irony of the whole animation.

Essentially looking like this: