Out with the Dream and in with the Rawk!

So I changed my story. Because Dream was pointless. The animatic is there if you click the above image. So here's the story, kind of long.

It starts off with some eggs hatching in a nest. There are 3 birds that go "chirp" but this one plumper bird goes "rawk" instead which scares the mother and she kicks him out. Rawk wonders why he's so different and he tries to go "chirp" but cannot. He grows up by himself learning to get food and fly. One day while getting food on a tree branch, a random squirrel falls onto the branch sending him flying into a tree in the hole. He falls down through this hollow tree and when he looks up outside, he sees his baby self in the nest. It seems he traveled back in time so he gets this idea to make his old self stay with the family. He goes through the tree one more time and then he flies onto the nest to make his baby self not go "Rawk". The mom finds him and kicks him out. He tries again this time wrapping his wings around baby Rawk but again, the mom finds him and kicks him out. The third time, he disguises as an egg with the words "Shut Up" on it hoping it can do egg-to-egg communication but same thing, he gets kicked out. Finally giving up, he goes back to the current time. He feels down but a girl bird flies next to him and likes his "Rawk" sound. She flies off, intending him to follow and Rawk feels that it's not so bad being different after all.

And here's my character turn around. I know it's really bad but I never imagined it'd be this difficult! I had trouble drawing the side angles when he's waggling from side-to-side. My new film poster will come later this week!

Dream Animatic

Film Idea

So here are the endings I came up with. I cannot decide which one. The first one doesn't feel that much like an ending though. And it doesn't feel like there's any climax either.

Scenario 1:

1. Boy is unhealthy from studying for a big exam.
2. Cannot get to sleep with a mind full of exam stuff.
3. Starts counting sheep but becomes strange and random experiences.
4. He "wakes up" and realizes he finally somehow got to sleep.
5. His mind is a complete blank during the test.
6. Can only remember his dream sequences (letters on test jumping out at him).
7. All these letters and numbers crowd around him.
8. "Enough is enough" and he clears his head at that instant.
9. Starts doing his best on the test.

Scenario 2:

1. Boy is unhealthy from studying for a big exam.
2. Cannot get to sleep with a mind full of exam stuff.
3. Starts counting sheep but becomes strange and random experiences.
4. He "wakes up" and realizes he finally somehow got to sleep.
5. His mind is a complete blank during the test.
6. Can only remember his dream sequences (letters on test jumping out at him).
7. All these letters and numbers crowd around him and he collapses from exhaustion.
8. He wakes up at the hospital frantic.
9. The nurse gives him a note from the Professor specifying and appointment to retake the test.
10. He frantically reaches for his bag to study but the nurse takes it away saying he needs to rest up.
11. The nurse gives him a tray of food and an apple and then leaves.
12. He looks at the food wearily and sighs, then starts eating slowly.

Film Poster and Character Turn Around

So here is my poster and character turn around. It is called "Dream" (tentative title). Synopsis: A young man studied too much for an exam and cannot get to sleep spends the night in bed desperately thinking of solutions to sleep.






I think this will be pretty fun to animate. Can't wait! I'm actually dreading making the maquette though... I suck at crafts and ceramic-type art. D:

Final 3D dialogue

Here is the updated dialogue assignment as of 2/3/09! I can't wait to see everybody else's! :L Honestly, I actually found this to be funner than drawing 100+ frames. But that's because we didn't have to rig the rig ourselves...