The general consensus was that we started of too big to achieve what we are trying to, which is start working together and put the talents, good ideas, passion for animation, and the fun we had in working on K&B to good use. So we decided to downscale what we are doing and move on to a bit more managable animations. We aren't discarding "loser saves the day" we are putting it aside for now.
To honor all of cesare's work on the animatic and all of the lovely scetches he did for "the loser" we desided that we just stick with the world we allready have and see what are fun things that could happen there. The problem with "loser saves the day" was that a lot of us felt there wasn't much going on that was funny. So we thought what can happen in this alien city that is funny and we just started throwing some ideas around.
There were several ideas we had for shorts (max of, maybe, 10 to 20 secs. 20 beeing long allready). We will post more ideas in the future but the one that seemed easiest to start on was an idea niels had.
Bully aliens
Simple storyboard above.
What we really like about this idea is the enormous fariety you can do this with.
- You can have different aliens that get abducted.
- you can have different UFO abducting
- You can have different reasons of adbuction
- There can be different settings/ surroundings
- There can be different ways the UFO approaches the alien
Etc etc etc.
We set the deadline in 2 weeks, to have the first of these finnished (it seemed to us that this was really funny to do in a serie). We agreed to have the first charactersketches, colorscripts, UFOsketches, style research, different ways to do this gag, etc online (here or via e-mail) by monday.
So our question to you guys is: If you feel the urge to pick up on any part of this SB, the UFO, the alien, the BG, just start making some sketches and put them up here. On monday we then pick some ideas and start working on them. (remeber we feel like this is funnier to do in a series so all ideas will be considered in the end and are more than welcome! Even if it is just a line of text on what might happen with the alien and the UFO)
Lennard has offered to be the middleman, so he'll be in touch with you guys to see if you're available for working in this.
Hope to see some nice aliens, UFO's, BG's, ideas here on monday! Thanks in advance guys :)
5 comments:
..how about a muslim-character' being abducted and turns into a nice sexy-walking-model?
This is good stuff. I dont think Ive actually seen this concept of an alien being abducted by a ufo before.
Allows for millions of variations, which is great.
I'm sure you all have seen it before, but it might be nice to revisit Purple and Brown, by Aardman to see how they work with some basic rules for their characters and their world. I think its important to have some limitations in terms of what can happen. It helps in coming up with ideas and building your story structure.
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all the comments all much apprechiated fons :) Thanks
And if you want to drop your version of an alien, alien abduction just dorp it here and we'll throw it on the pile...
Thanks for letting me in =)
I really like the concept! In the storyboard with the hairy alien I see allot of gags in it and see the animation allready before me. Great stuff!
I tried to give it a try. I never made an storyboard before, so I am curious what you all think of.
I tried to keep it simple and focus on the concept. I hope you can read my hand writing.
first ideas
storyboard
Recently the ASIFA posted some storyboards of ren and stimpy. Great inspiration, they have other storyboards as well.ASIFA link
Good idea! Keep it to the bone :)
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