Animation Case Study

Origin of Phineas and Ferb
- Case Study

 A "Phineas Flynn and his stepbrother, Ferb Fletcher, are determined to make every day of their summer vacation fun. They try building a full-scale roller coaster, becoming musicians, building a backyard beach, and traveling back in time to meet dinosaurs. Their family pet, Perry the Platypus, doubles as a secret agent and battles evil. Meanwhile, older sister Candace is tattling on them to Mom and Dad, though she can never seem to catch them in the act" - IMDB

Phineas and Ferb was a Disney channel TV show, the show had many theories about where the idea origin from. My two favourite Theories is the 'Dark side' and 'True story'.





Dark side

The Children Disney Channel TV show was believe to be about that the real Candace in the TV show lost her mind in reality due to bad things happening in her life, in this theory it was said that Phineas was her little brother who was bullied a lot in school because he was said to be 'Nerdy' but unfortunately one day the bully hit Phineas on the head really hard and killed him.

This resulted Candace not being able to deal with the Phineas death so she imagined a world where he was still alive and playing with her other brother Ferb, however Ferb has a disability where he can't talk and do much but they go on great adventures together.

Another thing to note is that the real reason why Candace mother couldn't see the things Phineas and Ferb built is that, well they simply aren't there. And the more Candace tries to convince her mother their there the more crazy she becomes, and the evil villain in the TV show 'Dr. Doofenshmirtz' was Candace psychologist who she sees twice a week. this later put a stain on the family so Candace mother tried to sell the stories Candace was telling her to Disney channel, and it work.

True Story?

This true story of Phineas and Ferb actually comes from a real person, a boy called Dan Povenmire where he built imaginary worlds. Dan Povenmire was an artistic prodigy that was obsessed with drawing cartoons, He spent his whole summer inventing elaborate drawings of cartoons and different stories he was imagining.