Spring 2013 2D2 Production Introduction

Well its been awhile!
For this semester I'm anticipating a few challenges that are most likely to come up.  The first and foremost being communication, I believe communicating is going to be a challenge as most of us haven't worked on a group animation, the max being 2 people.  Other than this, if we all buckle down and get our shots done, I don't believe there will be any problems.  Opportunities on the other hand are going to be everywhere.  This is really the first time any of us have had the chance to shine and do exactly what we think/know what we want to do.  We get to flex our individual muscles and see what we really love to do in the process.  Being that I've actually already worked on a few outside projects, I feel I'll be best utilized in pre-production and character design/character animation.

What I'm hoping to accomplish this semester is simply getting over that fear of the blank page.  Just sitting down and animating because of how much I enjoy it rather than for a project/client/class.  I've been to this place of zen a few times, but I'd like to see it become a permanent place that I can go to at the drop of a hat. I love animation and all facets of it, but I seem to have developed a fear for it.  I want to over come this fear and then have a wonderful animation piece to show for it.

Until next time!

~Cooper

Reality Check

ITS FINISHED!

Well its been nearly 2 months, and it's finally done!

So here it is folks!  "Reality Check"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0tcI9uhiaw&feature=youtu.be

Huge Update... The animatics are done!

The finished animatic was too big to upload, sadly

Myself Vs Stag!

Well, the newest animation I will be working on is a piece that consists of myself either kissing my main character stag or myself fighting with with him.. So far, not sure which and currently attempting to work out the kinks.

Essentially The animation is myself transported on my canvas clueless as to how I got there.  I meet up with Stag and we do our thing.  The punch line is the cut back to reality to show what was really going on, which right now will either myself destroying my animation desk or myself making out with my animation desk and my classmates reaction.

So, this is stag!

New post will be up soon!

Cooper out.

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