Saturnday nights

I have been thinking a lot about what it has been addressed in previous posts with regards to the construction of our little gag.

Jurjen's comment about the giant spaceship hairdryer, under 'gag basics', is also where I thought the gag should go, and its many possibilities for different sort of objects and functions I think can deliver some pretty funny situations. Maybe I am just thinking too much about this, but I miss the reason why aliens are abducting other aliens. I will upload a couple of rough ideas later which try to deal with that and present some alternatives.

The storyboard above is approaching the gag from the relationship between the aliens and their behavior. Rather than trying to 'serialise' the gag, like the initial storyboard drawn by Jelle indicates, I have just created a self contained little story. Not sure if this is the best direction, and at this point I would like to start actually 'making' something based on all the material already posted. Would like to hear your thoughts on this.....

space

here is my firts small storyboard idea. it's not realy supposed to be funny but more scary wierd. i made some noise xmpls in it.

It's a mean world out there: above is a sketch for a storyboard, hairy alien, sucking sounds, being spat out again completely naked.
Hairy aliens, some variations, colors are just for reference.
and just for fun, a small alien walk cycle, based on Jelle's original storyboard....

Simple storyboard

Here's the storyboard, cesare and I figured it was better to submit this before the animatic has to be altered again... This is a better way to move scenes around and make some small changes to the storyline.

Cesare added some scenes and moved some scenes around after the comment that Lennie posted at the previous animatic
We'd love to hear your opinions again on how you guys think this storyline will work (please don't comment on the quality of the drawings because that will cause cesare to do it all over again in illustrator :P)

If we all agree on this as being the storyline we will go ahead and find some catchy tunes and sounds so we can improve the timing a bit and make a final (and really simple) animatic...

I will also upload some color impressions i did last week, and i think cesare will upload his color/design ideas about the disco today. Maybe then Niels and Simon could start on some character designs for the disco (will be easier when there's a colorscript for that we thought).

Washing wonder

Hello hello!! I have the honor to be the first one to upload a storyboard.

It is about a very enthousiastic salesman that tries a little too hard to sell a brand new washing machine to a very hard to convince bored shoppersand gets in the end, well, 'wahsed out'.....the setting is a sort of mediamarkt place, huge, and the shoppers are for this reason in a daze with so much stuff to buy.

Today at the meeting I have shown this board without any dialogue, sort of mime style, but in posting it I thought it would be better to push it with some nonsensical lines of dialogue, just to make it more absurd. The whole idea is made to exploit the funny elements in the gags and sure to test style and approach in how to animate it. I see a lot of squash and stretch and all is fluid and exaggerated.
With good direction and well made chs this is a nice little project, and comments are welcome.