Script Take # FINAL

So after 2 and a half months of work-shopping this work of genius, its finally finished(?)

And here it is!

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow with a few silhouettes scattering the snowy landscape

The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a Hunter marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold.

XCS of his chattering teeth

XCS of his blue hands shaking

The warrior begins to look to his left.

To his left he sees a moose scuffing the ground looking for something to eat and obviously doesn’t notice the Hunter

The Hunter grasps his bow loudly and the Moose scampers off startled

The Hunter looks to his right 

Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also sitting in the cold who was also watching the moose run off.

The Hunter stares at the bear in an over the shoulder shot and pushes in

The Camera cuts to a LS of the Hunter and Bear to show their distance and begins to push out.

Act 2:

Close shot on the Hunter’s head as he leans back and begins to day dream

Cut away to an image of the Hunter wearing the bear’s fur as a pelt

Looks back up begins to size up the bear

Cuts to an image of roasting the bear on a spit

Cuts back to hunter pulling out something and drops it in the snow

The Bear looks up to see the Hunter day dreaming and stands up on his hind legs (cuts from a CS to a LS)  

Realizes what’s going on and takes a step back. LS

The Bear’s stomach growls (XCS) reminding him of the hunger he has and gives into it.

The Bear hunkers over and begins to drool.  (The camera pushes in from a LS to a MS)

The Bear in turn begins to day dream.

Camera cuts away to a LS of an image of himself wearing the Hunter’s skin as a pelt with a pile of bones next to him

Hunter snaps out of the day dream (MS) And cuts away to the Bear hunkered over drooling

Camera cuts back to the Hunter’s hungered expression and cracks a smile (CS)   

The Hunter reaches for his bow, and attempts to notch an arrow only to find his quiver is empty (XCS)

Hunter reaches for his hatchet only to find that missing as well.

The warrior immediately begins to fumble through his belongings searching for something (MS)

Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife (XCS on his hand with light coming from his army knife)

Camera cut back to show Hunter confidently fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions (MS)

Pauses on several different tools thinks about it then continues, varying ridiculousness and finally settles on his teddy bear knife

Switches to an over the shoulder shot of the bear, who is still drooling

Switches to MS of the bear who perks up attempts to bulk himself up straightens his back snorts and begins pointing at his paw.

The Bears whips out his paw in the same fashion that the Hunter did (XCS on the Bear paw with light shining from it)

Camera cuts to a MS of the Bear who is now fanning out each claw just as the Hunter did with his knife.  Goes through several different claw types but finally settles on Bear claw, then cocks his paw to reveal all claws.

The Camera cuts back to a MS of the Hunter is now more angry than confident

The Camera switches to a XLS of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.

All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other

The Camera cuts to a XCS on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then cuts to the Bear’s mouth which stops drooling

XCS of the Hunter’s grasp on his Swiss army knife

XCS of the Bear’s eyes that goes from a squint to panic Camera pushes in to reveal a bottle of Bear-B-Q sauce hanging from the Hunter’s belt

Rush Pull out from the XCS to show the bear snaps first and begins running in a panic away from the hunter

The Hunter leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera Pushes out at the start of the jump

Camera Cuts to an over the shoulder view from the warrior as he leaps toward the bear.

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before

Camera cuts to a LS as the Hunter tackles the Bear sending the Bear tumbling forwards

Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another

Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out

Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the tackle, showing that a silhouette of something massive as if 4 trees are in their path.  Camera pushes in

Switches to a LS as they smash into the object

Act 3:

The blizzard calms again.

The two untangle from their pile and look up as a huge moose.

Camera cuts to an angle looking at the horrified expression on their faces

Camera cuts back to an upwards tilt at the Moose who looks down with its big dumb wall eyes and lets out a snort, begins to chew something and drool on the pair below him.

Camera cuts back to a downwards tilt of the pair.  Hunter looks at the bear, then lifts his arm still holding the teddy bear knife into frame and shrugs at the bear

Bear response by over excitedly nodding yes

Hunter Gentle jabs the moose with his tiny utensil

The mooses’ eyes go from wall eyed to cross eyed as the derpy creature tips over

Camera rush pulls out to a LS of the moose tipping over with the knife embedded in its side

The pair look back at each other and shrug MS

Camera fades to black

The camera fades in from black to a scene of the two characters sitting back to back with moose parts strewn all around them in the snow.

The Hunter now wearing the moose’s’ pelt and savagely chow’ing down on a moose leg, While the Bear uses the Hunter’s knife to carefully cut up his portion.

The warrior leans back and settles into the bear’s back, lets out a burp and begins to fall asleep.

The Bear welcomes the Hunter, yawns and lays his head down over his paws

Camera pulls out from the battle scene back to its original position and fades to white   

Script Take #7

SOOOOO I back tracked to take #3 which had been work shopped the best.  Iv added a couple modifications to reflect the 2 character's personalities along with a solution to the problem, kept pretty much everything else from the original take #3

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow with a few silhouettes scattering the snowy landscape

The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a Hunter marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold.

XCS of his chattering teeth

XCS of his blue hands shaking

The warrior begins to look to his left.

To his left he sees a moose scuffing the ground looking for something to eat and obviously doesn’t notice the Hunter

The Hunter grasps his bow loudly and the Moose scampers off startled

The Hunter looks to his right 

Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also sitting in the cold who was also watching the moose run off.

The Hunter stares at the bear in an over the shoulder shot and pushes in

The Camera cuts to a LS of the Hunter and Bear to show their distance and begins to push out.

Act 2:

Close shot on the Hunter’s head as he leans back and begins to day dream

Cut away to an image of the Hunter wearing the bear’s fur as a pelt and roasting the bear on a spit

The Bear looks up to see the Hunter day dreaming and stands up on his hind legs (cuts from a CS to a LS)  

Realizes what’s going on and takes a step back. LS

The Bear’s stomach growls (XCS) reminding him of the hunger he has and gives into it.

The Bear hunkers over and begins to drool.  (The camera pushes in from a LS to a MS)

The Bear in turn begins to day dream.

Camera cuts away to a LS of an image of himself wearing the Hunter’s skin as a pelt with a pile of bones next to him

Warrior snaps out of the day dream (MS) And cuts away to the Bear hunkered over drooling

Camera cuts back to the Hunter’s hungered expression and cracks a smile (CS)   

The Hunter reaches for his bow, and attempts to notch an arrow only to find his quiver is empty (XCS)

Hunter reaches for his hatchet only to find that missing as well.

The warrior immediately begins to fumble through his belongings searching for something (MS)

Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife (XCS on his hand with light coming from his army knife)

Camera cut back to show Hunter confidently fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions (MS)

Switches to an over the shoulder shot of the bear, who is still drooling

Switches to MS of the bear who perks up attempts to bulk himself up straightens his back snorts and begins pointing at his paw.

The Bears whips out his paw in the same fashion that the Hunter did (XCS on the Bear paw with light shining from it)

Camera cuts to a MS of the Bear who is now fanning out each claw just as the Hunter did with his knife

The Camera cuts back to a MS of the Hunter is now more angry than confident

The Camera switches to a XLS of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.

All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other

The Camera cuts to a XCS on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then cuts to the Bear’s mouth which stops drooling

XCS of the Hunter’s grasp on his Swiss army knife

XCS of the Bear’s eyes that goes from a squint to panic

Rush Pull out from the XCS to show the bear snaps first and begins running in a panic away from the hunter

The Hunter leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera Pushes out at the start of the jump

Camera Cuts to an over the shoulder view from the warrior as he leaps toward the bear.

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before

Camera cuts to a LS as the Hunter tackles the Bear sending the Bear tumbling forwards

Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another

Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out

Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the tackle, showing that a silhouette of something huge is in their path.  Camera pushes in

Switches to a LS as they smash into the object

Act 3:

The blizzard calms again.

 Camera pulls out from a view of a massive pile of fur with a pair of boots sticking out from one side. And begins to surge and move as the two attempt to become untangled

Camera cuts to a XCS from somewhere in the pile showing the hunter’s knife embedded in the fur.

The Hunter begins to laugh maniacally

Camera cuts to somewhere else in the pile showing the bear’s claws embedded in the fur

The Bear begins to hyperventilate and panic.

Camera cuts to a LS of the pile of fur as both characters untangle and move away from it.

The Hunter is covered head to toe in blood while only the bear’s paw appears to be covered

The camera switches to a LS revealing that the object they had slammed into was the same moose from the beginning.

The Bear lets out a sigh of relief seeing that he had not in fact killed the hunter. The bear attempts to wipe the blood of his paw using his fur.

The Hunter wipes the blood from his face to showing an expression of confidence after realizing what just happened and smiles at the bear and points at the object embedded with his knife between them MS

The two’s stomachs growl in unison.

The two nod in agreement

The camera cuts to a scene of the two characters sitting back to back with moose parts strewn all around them in the snow.

The Hunter now wearing the moose’s’ pelt and savagely chow’ing down on a moose leg, While the Bear uses the Hunter’s knife to carefully cut up his portion.

The Hunter leans back and settles into the bear’s back, lets out a burp and begins to fall asleep.

The Bear welcomes the Hunter, yawns and lays his head down over his paws

Camera pulls out from the battle scene back to its original position and fades to white   

Script Take #6

So, went back to my original Model. Gave a much better stage set up and character build up.  Idea and basic story design are the same, but fixed the main problems and goals of each character.  Honestly I think this is a hell of a lot better than before.  Boards are on their way, should have them up to by monday morning

Act 1:

The Camera places an Establishing shot of a snowy ravine with shear cliffs on either side.

The Camera pushes in from a top view down view of the inside of the ravine to reveal a cart being dragged in the snow.

Camera switches to a MS shot showing a cart full of food being pulled by a lightly armored Warrior.

Camera pushes in on a CS of the Warrior from the Front to reveal the fact that he’s shivering from the cold.

His teeth being to chatter XCS

His hands are blue XCS

Camera pulls out to an MS of his shivering outline

A shocked expression comes over his face CS

The warrior freezes in place Dutch angle MS

Camera switches to a Worm’s eye view LS of a bear walking towards the Warrior in the snow

Act 2:

Camera turns 180* to the exact opposite perspective to give a view of the Warrior’s shocked frozen state.

The bear hunkers down as if threatened. MS

The warrior attempts to bulk up his size and anticipate the bear’s actions MS

Camera switches back to the bear as the bear notices the large sack of food in the wooden cart behind the Warrior. Dutch angle LS Push in to CS of Food peeking out of sack

The Warrior takes a step back realizing the bear has taken notice MS

Bear’s face changes to a rabid expression as if starving CS

XCS of the Bear’s mouth as it licks its chops

MS of the Bear as its stomach begins to growl

The Warrior goes to reach for his sword slung across his back, but is only met with an empty sheath. Blinking animation of the outline of the sword showing it’s missing CS of hand grabbing sword outline

Camera switches back to an MS of the warrior who is now slightly panicked

CS of his hand again as he reaches for his Axe on his belt, but is once again greeted by the horrible feeling of nothingness.  Repeated animation of outline of Axe.

Camera switches back to an MS of the Warrior who is now very panicked

The Warrior begins digging though his light armor for something worth using. CS of warrior’s  clothing

Camera cuts back to the bear as he begins to fall asleep from boredom. The sounds of the Warrior shuffling can be heard MS

Bear rest it’s head on its paw MS

The sound of an “Ah ha!” can be heard, the bear perks up and looks back over at the warrior. MS Pull out then rush pan back to the Warrior

Camera is Close in on the Warrior’s expression as if Triumphant.

Camera rush pulls out to reveal him standing in an epic “ready to’ pose while holding a very tiny Swiss army knife waving and jabbing at the air in front of the bear. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear who is not happy. MS And begins to growl camera cuts to XCS of Jaws

Camera cuts back to Warrior. Eyes tightening XCS

Camera Cuts back to Bear’s XCS jaws, growl turns into a smile.  Pulls out to an MS of the bear, who begins to stand up on its hind legs revealing how big the Bear really is.

Camera cuts to a LS of the scene as the two now stare at each other One with weapon the other towering and unarmed.

Camera zoom pushes back in to a front shot of the Bear. MS

Bear lifts his paw, grabs it with the other, and cocks his foretoe like a gun, popping all of his claws out at once.

Camera cuts back to a CS of the warriors face who’s expression changes to hate *all or nothing going through his head*

Camera pulls out to an MS of the Warrior as he fearlessly breaks his pose throws his knife to the side and throws himself at the bear with all of his might!

Camera cuts to a running perspective from the warrior’s point of view then back to LS and begins to flash the two perspectives as if coming in closer and closer and closer.

The Warrior finally collides into the bear with all of his might! Camera pulls out to a LS of the two silhouetted upon the back drop.  The warrior simply smacks into the bear as if a wall and falls backwards onto the ground with a very un-dramatic “plop”  LS

Dutch angle looking up at the bear from the Behind the warrior’s shoulder MS

Bear looks down smiles and begins to fall forward MS (over the shoulder of the bear)

Back to the silhouetted view of the 2 characters: Bear falls flat on top of the warrior as if a rag doll and pins him to the ground. LS

MS of the warrior struggling under the bear

The warrior finally pokes his out from under the bear a gasping for air CS

The warrior continues to struggle under the bear MS

All of a sudden the warrior stops moving MS.

Act 3

The bear looks back from his fallen place as if checking to see if the warrior is alive. To his surprise not only is the warrior alive, but smiling and using the bear as a blanket MS to over the shoulder view of the bear looking at the warrior

The warrior struggles and pulls one of his arms out (MS), points at the bar’s gowling stomach (CS) and then back to his cart. Cuts from Warrior to an MS of the cart, CS on the food, then back to a MS of the Warrior

The warrior then points at the Bear’s face (CS from angle of finger) then back to himself using the bear as a blanket. MS

The bear nods as if in agreement CS Then cuts back to a smiling warrior Camera fades to white

Camera fades in from White to a scene of the Warrior under the Bear leaning back against his cart MS

Camera pulls out to reveal the bear very happily chewing an what appears to be a Stag’s leg

The two look at each other for a moment and nod.

Camera pulls out from the scene back to its original starting place at the beginning

Animatic Take #5

StoryBoards for Take #5

Script and Shot List take #5

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow and the sound of a horn being blown

The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold and blowing his horn in the hopes of finding someone nearby.

The Warrior lowers the horn and begins to look to his left and right. MS

The Camera cuts to a MS of a Bear asleep in his cave and he is rudely awoken by the sound of the Warrior’s horn.  The Bear stretches and walks out of the cave to see what’s going on in the hopes of stopping this awful sound.

Act 2:

The Warrior takes a deep breath and attempts to blow into the horn again but is interrupted by a tapping his shoulder. CS

The Warrior turns and jumps in shock of what he sees.  CS

The Camera cuts to reveal a very sleepy grumpy Bear sitting in the snow just feet from him. MS

The Bear brings one of his claws up to his mouth to symbolize being quiet. CS

Camera cuts to a wide MS of both the Warrior and Bear looking at each other

The Warrior backs up against the tree and begins to straighten up.

The Blizzard comes to a stop.

The Warrior, while still straightening up stares at the bear while getting an idea. CS

Camera cuts to an illusion of the Warrior leaned back relaxing with the bear’s pelt on him as a cloak while roasting it on a fire. MS

Cuts back to a CS of the Bear staring back at the warrior as he also gets an idea. CS

Camera pan cuts to the Bear back in his cave, using a stuffed version of the Warrior as a pillow as he sleeps. MS

The Warrior comes back to his senses and begins to pull an object off his back. MS

The Warrior whips out his Weapon of choice; a Medieval Army Knife.  Light begins to radiate off from it.  CS

Warrior jumps to his feet and begins to fan out each weapon. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear who begins to smile. CS

The Bear Points at his paw. MS

Bear whips out his paw and light begins to radiate from it. XCS

Camera cuts to the Bear fanning out each claw as the Warrior did.  MS

Camera cuts back to the Warrior who is now outraged by the Bear’s threat. CS

The Warrior throws his weapon to the ground. MS

And begins to sprint towards the Bear. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear as a look of surprise comes across its face. CS

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before.

The Warrior Tackles the Bear sending the Bear Backwards.  LS

Dutch Angle shot as the camera begins to reveal the next image. MS

Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another all the way down

Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out

Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the Tackle, showing that a huge tree is in their path.  Camera pushes in

Camera cuts to the two as they crash into the tree. LS

The Bear tips over on top of the warrior LS

The Blizzard stops once again

Act 3:

Camera switches to a LS of the two just sitting where they landed, panting for breath. LS

(music begins) The start to move and adjust positions. MS

As they move around, it clicks; they both have exactly what they wanted.  The two nod in agreement LS

The Camera cuts to the Warrior using the Bear as a blanket and the Bear using the Warrior as a pillow LS

The two nod in agreement once more and begin to sleep LS ( Camera pushes out)

The Camera begins to push out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning.

Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.  

Script and Shot List take #4

Did some major changes to have it make more sense. Long story short, the Warrior Wakes up a sleeping Bear who isn't too happy

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow and the sound of a horn being blown

The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold and blowing his horn in the hopes of finding someone nearby.

The Warrior lowers the horn and begins to look to his left and right. MS

The Camera cuts to a MS of a Bear asleep in his cave and he is rudely awoken by the sound of the Warrior’s horn.  The Bear stretches and walks out of the cave to see what’s going on in the hopes of stopping this awful sound.

Act 2:

The Warrior takes a deep breath and attempts to blow into the horn again but is interrupted by a tapping his shoulder. CS

The Warrior turns and jumps in shock of what he sees.  CS

The Camera cuts to reveal a very sleepy grumpy Bear sitting in the snow just feet from him. MS

Camera cuts to a wide MS of both the Warrior and Bear looking at each other

The Warrior backs up against the tree and begins to straighten up.

The Bear brings one of his claws up to his mouth to symbolize being quiet.

The Blizzard comes to a stop.

The Warrior, while still straightening up stares at the bear while getting an idea. CS

Camera cuts to an illusion of the Warrior leaned back relaxing with the bear’s pelt on him as a cloak while roasting it on a fire. MS

Cuts back to a CS of the Bear staring back at the warrior as he also gets an idea. CS

Camera pan cuts to the Bear back in his cave, using a stuffed version of the Warrior as a pillow as he sleeps. MS

The Warrior comes back to his senses and begins to pull an object off his back. MS

The Warrior whips out his Weapon of choice; a Medieval Army Knife.  Light begins to radiate off from it.  CS

Warrior jumps to his feet and begins to fan out each weapon. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear who begins to smile. CS

Bear whips out his paw and light begins to radiate from it. XCS

Camera cuts to the Bear fanning out each claw as the Warrior did.  MS

Camera cuts back to the Warrior who is now outraged by the Bear’s threat. CS

The Warrior throws his weapon to the ground. MS

And begins to sprint towards the Bear. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear as a look of surprise comes across its face. CS

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before.

The Warrior Tackles the Bear sending the Bear Backwards.  LS

Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another all the way down

Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out

Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the Tackle, showing that a huge tree is in their path.  Camera pushes in

Camera cuts to the two as they crash into the tree.  The Bear lands on top of the warrior LS

The Blizzard stops once again

Act 3:

Camera switches to a LS of the two just sitting where they landed, panting for breath. Birds eye view shot. (music begins) The start to move and adjust positions.

As they move around, it clicks; they both have exactly what they wanted.  The two nod in agreement

The Camera cuts to the Warrior using the Bear as a blanket and the Bear using the Warrior as a pillow

The two nod in agreement once more and begin to sleep LS ( Camera pushes out)

The Camera begins to push out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning.

Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.  

First Animatic of Take #3

StoryBoards for Take #3

More to come for Take #4!

Script Take #3

Finally decided to bite the bullet and turn my mess of notes into a new script! New set of Boards to come! All I need to do is scan them in........ (Second set of boards will never see the light of day, as they were just scribbles)

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow

The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold

The warrior begins to look to his left and right. 

Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also shivering in the cold

The Warrior stares at the bear in an over the shoulder shot and pushes in

The Camera cuts to a LS of the Warrior and bear to show their distance and begins to push out.

Act 2:

Close shot on the Warrior’s head as he leans back and begins to day dream

Cut away to an image of the Warrior wearing the bear’s fur as a pelt

The Bear looks up to see the Warrior day dreaming and stands up on his hind legs (cuts from a CS to a LS)  

The Bear hunkers over and begins to drool.  (The camera pushes in from a LS to a MS)

The Bear in turn begins to day dream.

Camera cuts away to a LS of an image of himself wearing the Warrior’s skin as a pelt with a pile of bones next to him

Warrior snaps out of the day dream (MS) And cuts away to the Bear hunkered over drooling

Camera cuts back to the Warrior’s horrified expression (CS)   

The warrior immediately begins to fumble through his belongings searching for something (MS)

Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife (XCS on his hand with light coming from his army knife)

Camera cut back to show Warrior fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions (MS)

Switches to an over the shoulder shot of the bear, who is still drooling

Switches to MS of the bear who perks up and begins pointing at his paw

The Bears whips out his paw in the same fashion that the Warrior did (XCS on the Bear paw with light shining from it)

Camera cuts to a MS of the Bear who is now fanning out each claw just as the warrior did with his knife

The Camera cuts back to a MS of the Warrior is now more angry than surprised

The Camera switches to a XLS of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.

All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other

The Camera cuts to a XCS on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then cuts to the Bear’s mouth which is now drooling

The Warrior snaps first leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera Pushes out at the start of the jump

Camera Cuts to an over the shoulder view from the warrior as he leaps toward the bear.

Bear begins to raise his paw as if about to swipe.

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before

Camera cuts to a LS as the Warrior Tackles the Bear sending the Bear Backwards 

Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, snowballing all the way down

Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the Snowball coming at the camera as it Pushes out

Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the snowball, showing that a huge tree is in their path.  Camera pushes in

Switches to a LS as the smash into the tree sending the Warrior out from the background of the shot, into the foreground of the shot, and the Bear from the background to further

Act 3:

Camera switches to a LS of the two just sitting where they landed, staring at one another (music begins) The two nod as if in agreement

The Camera Cuts to a new scene of the Warrior and bear curled up together. The two nod in agreement once more and begin to sleep ( Camera pushes out)

The Camera begins to push out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning.

Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.  

Script Take #2

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera zooms in to mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow

The Camera zooms into reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold

The warrior begins to look to his left and right. 

Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also shivering in the cold

The Warrior stares at the bear  during a wide camera shot and begins to imagine the possibilities

Act 2:

Close up shot on the Warrior’s head as he leans back and begins to imagine himself warm in the Bear’s pelt with a full belly

The warrior looks over at the bear (over the shoulder camera shot)

The Bear rears up on his hind legs and looks right at the Warrior

Close up on the bear from the waist up.  The bear begins to imagine himself wearing the Warrior’s skin and armor as a pelt and begins to drool

Camera goes back to focusing on the Warrior shivering.

Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife.  Camera zooms in on the knife in his hand

Camera zooms back out to show Warrior fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions

The Camera quickly pans back and zooms in on the Bear.

The bear quickly whips out his paw. Camera zooms in on paw, then zooms back out to waist up

The bear begins to fan out each finger popping one claw out at a time and cracks a smile at the Warrior

The Camera pans back to the warrior as a look of shock comes over his face.

The Warrior’s expression quickly turns from shock to anger

The Camera switches to a wide shot of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.

All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other

The Camera Zooms in on a close up on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then to the Bear and his eyes begin to squint as well.

The Warrior leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera zooms in on the Warrior then zooms out at the start of the jump. 

The camera switches to the bear as he rears up and lunges at the Warrior.

The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before

Camera switches to a wide shot as the two collide mid air. 

The two become enveloped in each other and fall to the ground and begin to roll around Camera follows the two until they come to a halt in the snow

Act 3:

The Two stop rolling and remain still (music begins) The bear and warrior untangle themselves and look at each other.  Camera zooms out from pile as they begin to untangle and focus on the two staring at each other

The Two nod in agreement

The Camera pans over back to the tree to reveal the Warrior and bear curled up together.

The Camera begins to zoom out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning

Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.  

Binding of Isaac

http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/

I figured that this game fits in with our degree of humor,
 its from the same artist who brought us Super Meatboy

Its a great simple game with hours of repeat-ability.  Take a look its pretty awesome 

Reverse Shot list!

So I decided to do a short animation by quite possibly my favorite animator of all time Harry Partridge.  The Animation is entitled "Skyrim"

The Shot list goes as such.

Establishing shot Camera Pan right to MS
CS
Cut away to CS
MS
CS
MS
CS
Title
Push in LS to XCS
XCS Push in
Dutch Camera angle push in MS
CS Push in to XCS
Dutch Camera angle Push in MS
XCS Camera Tilt up to another XCS
Pan Right MS
XCS Push in
XCS Push out to LS
Montage LS
Dutch Angle MS
LS Push in Montage Pan Right
High Angle Shot Push Out
Low angle Tilt up MS
XCS Push out to MS
Credits

Skyrim

StoryBoards and Script

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail

Camera pans and zooms in to reveal lone warrior shivering in the snow under tree

Warrior pulls clothes tighter around himself and looks around

While looking to his left he spots a lone bear shivering in the snow as well

Warrior begins to daydream and picture himself in a bear’s pelt and passes out from the cold

Act 2:

While passed out the Warrior begins to imagine events unfolding

The warrior looks over at the bear.  The bear looks back and begins to mock the warrior by imitating his shivering

Warrior responds by pulling out a knife

The bear begins to flip the warrior off

The Warrior pulls out a Swiss army knife and begins to fan out the tools; including a fork, and cracks a smile

The bear’s expression turns from mocking to a look of horror and goes to run

The Warrior leaps from his place of shivering with both knife and fork in hand.

He throws himself into the bear thrashing and envelopes himself in the bear’s fur

Act 3:

The warrior startles himself awake to find himself enveloped in bear fur

The warrior looks around confused to find himself still under the tree in his original spot

The bear is still in one piece and breathing while curled around the warrior looks up at the warrior and smiles.

The bear rests his head down and closes his eyes

The warrior; now warmer, relaxes and passes out once more having made a new friend

Don Hertzfeld and other great animations

Its been awhile since i had seen anything by Don Hertzfeld, but they still made me laugh just the same.  I cant decide whether the fact that these are excellently animated or well planned.  Either way, the randomness combined with shock humor makes for a great laugh.  My favorite is probably "Rejected Cartoons" where Don combines both 2D animation with some stop motion photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI

As far as Simon's Cat goes, all his work is pretty genius.  Each of his animations start with everyday events and just escalate into huge ordeals, all the while animating the cat as as real as possible. This is probably the better approach for short animations which may come in handy.