Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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.