Showing posts with label Jelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jelle. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The bully aliens

Yesterday lennard, niels, cesare and I met at cesare's house to discuss how to proceed and how to deal with the pointers and advice everyone has so kindly offered us so far (please keep doing it it is very much appreciated!)

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 :)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Some moodsketches


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).















Thursday, May 15, 2008


Jelle's very good robot design was the starting point for an animation test, which we worked on together. I have uploaded the flash file, please see the cycle here

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

blub blub weird fishies

Friday, May 9, 2008

De kapiteinshoed op zolder...

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Dit is mijn shizzle :)

Ik had nog meer schetsen maar die waren in het blauw en die kon mijn scanner niet goed lezen.

Het verhaaltje dat ik heb verzonnen is:
Een jongentje vindt op zolder een kapiteinshoed met daarin een briefje/schatkaartje. Dit schatkaartje leidt hem naar de havens van rotterdam door allerlei legubere steegjes, fabriekshallen, duistere plekjes, you get the idea. In de haven komt ie ergens terecht bij een ouwe loods waar een kleine onderzeeƫr verborgen ligt. Met deze onderzeeƫr beleefd hij allerlei avonturen.

Alles in een futuristische setting. Rotterdam nadat alle mileurampen van nu zijn uitgekomen. Dikke laag smog, waterpeil is dusdanig gestegen dat de helft van rotterdam onder water staat etc.





In de haven komt onze Boy allemaal gevaarlijke havenrobots tegen! Misschien is in de haven ook wel een rebellerende-havenrobot-mastermind als een van de badguys in de vele avonturen van onze held :P




De haven ziet er gevaarlijk uit 's nachts...





Dit is een overview van de stad in de future. Links een beetje de "jetsons"achtige binnenstad, die ruim boven de smoglaag uitsteekt, hier wonen de jetsetters (hahaha woordgrapje, snapje? Jetsons-->jetsetters?)
Diep verborgen in de smoglaag heb je ghetto. Misschien komt onze held hier vandaan? Of juist niet? En in de futuristiche haven (rechts) liggen allemaal rare space-boten maar zijn ook de enge , duistere, met nasty-ass robots gevulde fabriekshallen...


Het is allemaal natuurlijk wat ruimer opgezet als de dingen van cesare en menno maar het leek me leuk om ook na te denken over een lange termijn projekt/cartoon en deze futuristische setting in combinatie met onze kleine kapitein in zijn onderzeeboot leek me een mooie voedingsbodem voor veel spannende, grappige etc avonturen... (shorts, langere animaties, een openingsfilmpje die uit kan groeien in de toekomst... In elk geval iets waar een breede basis ligt om op uit te breiden)

Ik ga komende week met cesare een beetje aan animatie dingentjes beginnen voor zijn animatic-filmpje en ik probeer tussendoor ook nog wat verder te schetsen aan het bovenstaande idee.
Ga vooral met alle dingen die je hier ziet aan de loop! Als je iets ziet waar je wilt inhaken of een design van wilt maken doe dat :D (ik zou zelf erg benieuwd zijn naar hoe onze kapitein eruit ziet met zijn grote kapiteinshoed, of zijn onderzeeboot)

Nou goed, enjoy :)
Jelly