In this assignment, we went through several tasks that led to the creation of a short animation, including a script, storyboard, and animatic. Restrictions applied, such as no dialogue and characters had to be inanimate objects.
Title: 'The Lumbering'
Synopsis: Three log police officers arrive at the property of a suspected cult populated by pine beetles. Things get much weirder.
Animatic:
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Most if not all of the sounds in the animatic are taken from videos found on YouTube, which I then opened in Audacity and cut the specific clips I wanted. There are sounds from Twin Peaks: The Return, Team Fortress 2, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Dead Space, Diablo 2, and The Thing. The first draft was well over a minute, forcing me to remove several shots and cut others' lengths in half.
Storyboard:
When creating the storyboard, I frequently reused assets through different frames, as well as from the beat board. There is not a large amount of detail because I typically spend far too much time on extraneous elements and end up taking several hours to design only a few slides, so I made a very conscious decision to only put the bare essentials and cheat whenever I could.
Beat Board:
As I was thinking about what certain shots were going to look like, I removed many parts that appeared in the script due to not being able to express them in a strictly visual manner or a lack of time. At this point, it was incredibly apparent that my story was completely insane and probably unworkable.
Character Construction:
Of my three character models, my peers seemed to be most interested in the log cop. None of these had much thought behind them. I essentially didn't know what I would do with any of them past the initial idea.
Script:
When writing the script, I frequently stopped to imagine what a psychiatrist or federal investigator might think about it. Half of the events in it were not included in the storyboard because they took too much time.
Story:
During the process of collecting reference images and writing beats and a synopsis, I had to struggle against thoughts of how the general idea was nonsense and my peers most likely would not understand it. I also do not recommend researching cults when it's dark out and you're all alone.
