SP1: Storyboards

Storyboards for the first piece I'm going to be doing for my Senior Project 1 class.

I'm aiming for a 30 second animation and so far I have 18 storyboards..I may edit the story to be a tad short but I will be doing this as a cut-out animation so it might not be as much work as it seems



1- Pan down showing the sky and a dragon flying by and stop at the little fat dragon sitting and watching.

2- Fat Dragon looks at his tiny wings with a sigh.



3- Fat Dragon Gets determined

4- And runs off camera

5- Dragon is running across a field as fast as he can

6- Dragon squats down and jumps up




7- Slow motion of the Dragon 'flying' and being very happy

8 - Pull back to reveal he isn't moving and is only barely above the ground.

9 - Dragon looks down, realizing he isn't flying before falling on his face

10 - Close up as the Dragon starts sniffling



11- Dragon starts to cry and as he is crying, little sparks of fire start to come from his snout.

12 - As the dragon is crying, he starts to breath a lot of fire that pushes him back up to his feet.

13- Dragon realizes

14 - Dragon plots



15 - Dragon takes a deep breath, building up a breath of fire

16 - Dragon breathes as much fire as he can

17 - The fire jets the dragon off the ground and out of the frame

18 - The dragon is seen 'flying' in the background with a huge plume of fire pushing him through the air

SP 1: Dragon Run

Take two at a Dragon run, this time it is more of a gallop than a prance.

SP 1: Dragon prance

Moving around my dragon puppet to see how clean of movement I can get out of him. May end up re-building him.

SP 1: Dragon inked

Inked up my dragon in a sitting and standing pose. He is broken up into pieces so I can puppet him. I'm gunna goober around with him and make sure he can move smoothly as a cut-out character.

Manicorn

Manliest unicorn in the world.

or Tom Selick as a unicorn as he has come to be known.

Senior Project: Piece 1

For my senior projects 1 and 2 classes, I've got to make 9 animated pieces in total to put in my portfolio.

Some sketches for my first piece. The concept is a little fat dragon that really want to fly but can't. This is going to be done as a cut-out flash animation! I'm gunna try and get a puppet version of him made soon and post it here

Silk concepts

Playing around with a concept for an all-ages comic book about a little girl named Molly who saves a spider from being crushed. That spider turns out to be a sorcerer that is a apart of a rebellion against a black widow that has taken over all the upper families of Aracnid (all the big ol spiders) and is planning to destroy all of bug kind so only spiders reign supreme. The sorcerer spider, a writing spider called Writer, turns her spider-size to show the other insects of the rebellion that there are people in the world that don't want to see insects get hurt.

This is my sketch of Molly