Rough Story-boarding for the Loss-Framed Story

I have put together some rough sketches that look fine at the moment,going with the narration. I am a bit skeptical for the last bit of narration though. It needs a bit of thinking. 

George is helping me with the animatic. 

Narration- Today, local wildlife is being squeezed into even smaller spaces as...

 Narration- man’s unfathomable need to acquire more space for himself is greater than ever before.

Narration-. Incessant cutting down of trees for urbanisation has robbed birds of their rightful homes.

Narration- According to the Common Census several species of once common birds are becoming extinct.

Narration-An ecological cascade effect of secondary specie dying because of its dependency on the first is obvious.

 If we don’t do our bit today ecosystems collapse and a higher rate of extinction of overall specie is imminent. 

Supervisor Meeting

Today,we had a meeting with Sharon. She was overall happy with the storyboard that we have put together.

Some of the things that might need a look into is for one more human involvement in the story. So,we are planning that Lilly(the owner) will be present in the garden at all times oblivious to the dog-bird fight. Maybe doing some gardening or putting up some clothes to dry. However, since that would be a challenge as putting up clothes will require excellent knowledge of ncloth. We might look into that.

Also by bringing Lilly to the garden it will save us time as we will then just need to make the exterior of the house plus it will save screen time as well.

Another issue that came to the forefront was using 2D Backgrounds with 3D Animation. Sharon told us that it will be easier for us to get things together if we did not try and merge two different animation styles. So, that is a thing that we will be discussing in our next team meeting.

Sharon liked the piece of Narration that I have made for my counterpart research film. Currently,I am working on its visual presentation and story-boarding.

For the next meeting, we are required to have polished Animatic of both the films, 3D Model of Lilly, Colour tones that we might use for the films and background styling.

According to the production schedule, and my planning we must have the Animatic ready by 21st February so that I can go ahead with my Focus Group Research.

Narration of the counterpart film for my research

It took quite sometime and a lot of Research work to get together a piece of narration that might be the base of graphical images for the second film of my Research. The tone that the narrator must use for this should spell doom all over it. It reads thus:

Today, local wildlife is being squeezed into even smaller spaces as man’s unfathomable need to acquire more space for himself is greater than ever before. Incessant cutting down of trees for urbanisation has led astray birds of their rightful homes.

According to the Common Census several species of once common birds are becoming extinct.

An ecological cascade effect of secondary specie dying because of its dependency on the first is obvious.

If we don’t do our bit today ecosystems collapse and a higher rate of extinction of overall specie is imminent. 

Production Schedule

Currently,the name of the film stands,'The Tug of Biscuit'. Since I am the Production Manager of it,I planned to create its production schedule on the Google Calender. However to get an overall view of the entire production timeline I created one on Excel too.

Moodboard for story

In our last meeting with Sharon, we were asked to make a few moodboard for the animation art style that we would like to pursue. I checked and searched on Google and have come with these ideas.

Since,my research is based on the birds going extinct, after much research I squared on these three birds that  are not only beautiful but would make a good study for the character designing on Sheng's part. The first ones for each are life pictures while others are their caricatures taken from various websites.

We have been considering what form of Background Art style we might go for. So,I got together this one that might be of some help.

Story-Boarding

Discussing ideas

Lilly very efficiently has prepared a Script for the story,'A tug of Biscuit'. Just the other day,we sat and decided on the story creating a rough storyboard as well. For detailed story boarding, we all selected parts of the the story that each of us would have liked to draw.

Story-boarding..

..continued

George took the introduction and ending part of the film,while Lilly took the first scene, Sheng took the second and I the third.Everybody had come up with the detailed parts of their story. A few pieces drawn by me..

Finally,we have put together this Animatic in Shotbox as suggested by Lilly.

The Lonely Mountain

Originally we had planned to replicate the mountain in the map but then we moved on to a much papery looking art style for our hobbit promo.