Sunday, February 22, 2009

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!


2 comments:

Jose Marzan said...

Are you going to record your own sad, happy, "I'm interested in you" rawks? Kooky timewarp you got there going, does mom kick him back through or does he dive on in after each failed plan? I like this story a lot more, I'm a sucker for "staying true to yourself" stories.

Fun turnaround, I counted 30+ drawings there, ouch!

Anonymous said...

so smooth!!!!!! you're such a good animator!!!! *^_^* cute story :} hehe your character is so fluffy looking ^^ very sweet :)