And so this is 20 to 26 July 2015.
I kept looking into old-school cartoon story development. I hit the jackpot at ASIFA Hollywood via the Wayback machine – back in 2008 they described the story dev workflow from premise to storyboard: gag session, continuity, structure and the rough board. That and John K’s posts about getting a story from premise to plan have been useful practical info and a big confidence boost. One interesting take-away: storyboards work best as separate small bits of paper.
I’ve now got everything I need to put together an outline. Actual usable story thumbnails have started appearing in my nightly sketching sessions. The chain reaction of inspiration is starting up again. Widescreen Post-it notes are at the ready.
This week’s image is a scene teaser of “A moment in the sun”. There’s one shot from each scene as specified in the outline. (After I drew this I realised it made Gronky look like more of a bastard than he actually is. Fear not. Gronky is not a bastard – he just doesn’t like the way the movie ends.)
Scene for scene, the high-level outline of A moment in the sun goes like this (slightly spoilery):
- Gronky regains consciousness…
- Gronky helps Pointy regain consciousness with great uncertainty and trepidation
- Pointy needs a place to shelter from the sun
- Gronky helps Pointy look for shelter unsuccessfully, also Pointy won’t shut up
- Gronky loses his cool and accidentally discovers how to shut Pointy up
- Gronky and Pointy dance together for their own separate reasons
- Free of Pointy’s noise, Gronky recalls something and sports Pointy to safety
- Safe at last, Pointy ruins everything
- Pointy’s mystical journey
- Gronky checks on Pointy
- Pointy ruins everything yet again
Anything more specific than that high level outline I’ll keep to myself – how Pointy continues to ruin everything or why anyone is even unconscious, for instance. 🙂
I’m spending the rest of today (Sunday) fleshing out the outline. Once I’m happy with it, I go to thumbnailing, recording scratch, making more animatics and seeing how it all fits together in (crude) motion.
See you again next week!
