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Short Animation Idea

Tea and Epiphanies

Story and Characters by Andrew Rae, Andrew Wilson and Steven Martin.

Characters.

Reginald - Dorm Guy 1 – Believes YouTube users need to be taught a lesson, reasons unknown.
Reilly – Dorm Guy 2 – Also believes YouTube users need to be taught a lesson, again reasons unknown.
Rachael – Tea Girl – Offers Tea and epiphanies.
Rick Astly – The ‘Talent’ – Helpless to Waterman’s powerful ways.
And Pete Waterman – The Manager – Controlling and always looking for a way to make more money.

Settings.

Scene 1 - 1987 – Pete Waterman’s Studio
Scene 2 - 2007 – Reginald and Reilly’s dorm
Scene 3 - 2008 – Pete Waterman at home

Story.

Scene 1
Starts in 1987 in recording studio with Rick Astly recording his first album.
Pete Waterman storms in during Rick’s recording raging at the slow and untalented progress.
Pete Shows Rick how it should be done.
Rachael pops in and offers tea, “PERFECT!!” replies Pete and they decide to use Pete’s voice for the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ but with Ricks trendiness and looks they use him to front it and mime the song.

Scene 2
Jump 20 years into the future
Two guys in dorm (Reilly and Reginald) decide that YouTube users are needing taught a lesson.
If only they could come up with an idea, Rachael pops in and offers tea, “Perfect!!” reply the guys and Rick Rolling is born.

Scene 3
At home Pete Waterman attempts to feed his ego and searches for himself on YouTube, ‘Pete Waterman Amazing Guy’ appears, he promptly clicks and the bitch gets Rick Rolled!

End.

Character Designs to come.

The Strangers

'Bag head dude'

Felt like doing a quick animation last night and this is what I came up with.

Designing the cartoon versions of 'baghead' and liv Tyler was fun.

Taken from the iconic scene in The Strangers where a man appears through the doorway.



Liv Tyler/Poster

Turn up your speakers!

My Spoon is too big

I decided that in real life, a stick man would not be this kind to a banana..



Looks like a job for this chap..

Animex 2009

Amazing. To anyone who is thinking about going next year, do it!!!

Animatic / story reel

Once a storyboard has been finalized and all the bad and sloppy ideas cosigned to the waste-paper basket, its time to see if the storyboard actually works as a film. To do this, an animatic is created.

The animatic is a movie that runs in sequence and is paced out in the same way as the final film, but unlike the final film the animatic consists not of animation, but only of the stills drawn up for your storyboard.

Reasons for creating an animatic include..

To get a good idea if the animation is going to cut together well and make sense as a filmic narrative.
To present to a potential buyer or producer etc
A lot of time/effort/money can be saved.
Problems with the narrative can be fixed before production begins.