Tutorial Videos

Bouncing Ball One and Two for tutorial one















Puppet jumps One and Two for tutorial two










Rotoscoping Walk Cycle and Animation Clip for tutorial three









Walk Cycle for tutorial four

My script

“One Day”

Script by: William Douglas

Scene 1

Queue music

Shot of ceiling fan spinning slowly

Shot of young boy staring at ceiling fan

Closer shot of boys face

Then his eye

Scene 2 (All in first person perspective from this point on)

Shot of mourning routine

Shot of boy leaning against bathroom vanity, thinking intensely

Shot of him opening front door

(Fade to light)

Scene 3

Shots of driving down the road

Walking down the street and looks to right to see a happy couple then looks back in front

Cuts back to him laying down and staring at the ceiling

Cuts to dinner with friends at a bar/restaurant

Sees happy faces and smiles (worms eye view)

Scene 4

Cuts back to boy in bed and closes up on his face to show a smile.

The End

update

I have not posted the work I've done so far and apologize for that, but I plan to have that up by this weekend.

Sound and Storyboard

Over the past week or so I have been going out and recording my own sounds for the animation and at the same time working on my storyboards. I chose to do then together because while working on my storyboards I can figure out what kind of sounds I need and work accordingly. I have also written out my script first draft and will type it up and post it later, but the script feels really loose so I am still working on that and the storyboards so that they can sync up.

reference videos

I plan on using something like this but integrated into live action footage.












These three videos are as I say just reference until I get a full plot and story down to where I could see it, then I would be able to decide my absolute style of animation.

Character Development

I have by this point and time put seventeen different characters into their concept stage for the final animation all of which will either interact or come across the main character at some point in the short. Some of them include the western vigilantes the "Wild Dogs" and terribly threating "Savy Pirates Gang" (yes they are actual pirates) and the "Imagines" my own personal collection of homemade imaginary friends (the idea came from the Cartoon Network show "Fosters Home of Imaginary Friends" but they are mine, not from the show) and many others that don't have names yet.

Soon I will post another blog with character sheets and finished drawings.
Stay tuned

Story Premise

My story will revolve around a short day in Savannah and will hopefully be live footage with animation integrated into it. It more than likely wont have any actual dialog but my story will be told through the music that is put to it. It would start off in the morning with the main character waking up and go on through the characters daily routine in a first person point of view, but the audience will see the character through carefully placed mirrors and reflective surfaces in the video, their will also be animated scenery and other people in the short will be animated. The short will end with the main character coming back to the apartment and having some laughs and sitting back with some friends.
Throughout the animation some parts will be live action but most of it will have sort of a "Who killed Roger Rabbit" where its live action in animation then a "Space Jam" feel where it is animation in a live action environment and the music hopefully will help pull the story full circle and some cleverly placed sound clips and an attempt at 2-d effects. It will be running along experimental animation feel and it could change as the quarter goes on but this is what I would really love to do.