Already Behind!

Gah, first weekend of my schedule was an absolute FAIL. Leave it to me to arrange for the hardest scene to animate during the one weekend I choose to be practically bedridden. I rarely get sick to begin with, so that was an extra burn.

Nonetheless, I did manage to finish my animatic. Something I never even considered scheduling in the first place, so that's something I happened to accomplish right? RIGHT?

I'm sick because I was stressed and now I'm stressed because I'm sick.




Hey...don't these crappy drawings look familiar? Why, it's a cheap rendition of my storyboards! O m O;;

Schedule of Doom

Alright, so for some reason, I can't transfer the table I made on Word to blogger...so I'm just going to list this out the old fashion way.

While creating this schedule, I've realized that completing the video exactly the way that I have imagined is going to leave me very VERY pressed for time. Naturally, I'm a little worried about this because I have two extra classes and club events to plan...not to mention eating a sleeping.

To remedy this, I've created a "PLAN B" schedule, which encompasses my entire film. For right now, I'm going to cut off the short when the groom glares at the bride after realizing that she bit off his mouth. She giggles, and the credits role. If, for some strange reason, I'm able to complete these scenes at a faster pace, then I will refer to my PLAN B, which has plenty of extra animation for me to complete.

In this way, I'll be able to finish the scenes that are necessary for my short first...and hopefully, be able to add on more depending on how the remaining of the term turns out.

Wish me luck!

WEDDING SCHEDULE

Thursday February 5-Sunday February 8:

1. Research Kisses
2. Animate "First Kiss"
3. Rough Backgrounds
4. Key "pull apart"

PLAN B:

1. Animate "pull apart".
2. Key "shrug and laugh".

Monday February 9-Sunday February 15:

1. Animate "pull apart".
2. Key "shrug and laugh".

PLAN B:

1. Animate "shrug and laugh".
2. Key close ups of "bite" and "kiss".

Monday February 16-Sunday February 22:

1. Animate "shrug and laugh".
2. Key close ups of "bites" and "kiss".

PLAN B:

1. Animate close ups.
2. Finish rough animation.
3. Begin clean up.

Monday February 23-Sunday March 1:

1. Finish animating close-ups.
   
2. Start cleaning up and coloring.

PLAN B:

1. Finish clean up.
   
2. Start color.
3. Rough in "second kiss".

Monday March 2-Sunday March 8:

1. Finish cleaning up and coloring.
2. Add sound.

PLAN B:

1. Finish color.
2. Rough in "tap" and "close up".
3. Ink extra scenes.

Monday March 9-Wednesday March 11:

1. Finish tweaking and what not.
2. Export last minute then die from exhaustion.

PLAN B:

1. Color extra scenes.
2. Finish Tweaking.
3. Add sound.
4. Export last minute then die from exhaustion.
   

Storyboards

More like really shoddy thumbnails, but here we go! Let me know what you think or if you can even make out what's going on...

Class Post

It's exactly 8:08 am, it's cold as hell outside, there are no eggs to make an omelet bagel, and I'm about to pass out on this cintique.

Oh yes, and like a drunkard who can't remember what catastrophic events occurred the night before, I'm looking back at the drawings I posted last night/this morning and my soul dies a little inside.

THE END

Groom Turn Around

This bloke doesn't have a name either! So far, my friend Brittany and I came up with "Bob and/or John, the poor dude who gets his face bitten off."

....

Yeah...you try coming up with a decent name at 1am!


For some reason, I've been in some kind of drawing "funk" all day. It took forever before I could find some decent poses for this guy! Nonetheless, I'm still happy how the overall thing turned out! Notice how the comparison in size was "recycled" from the bridal character sheet! I'm still not sure if I want to keep her so short, or if I want cut off the groom's feet so they could at least reach each other for a kiss. Ha ha!

Speaking of kisses and horrible drawings, behold the awkwardness! The idea of her standing on a stool was also concocted by Brittany and I during the wee hours of Wednesday morning. We thought it would be cute if she had to jump up and grab his collar in order to kiss him...but now it really does look like she's eating his face.

Gah.

Note to self: Research A LOT of kissing scenes before attempting to draw the darn thing on your own, let alone at 1am...

Bridal Turn Around

Here it is! The Bride doesn't really have a name yet, so let me know if you have any suggestions!

Note to self: Never try to ink anything out on Photoshop when you are crunched for time. I could've saved hours if I had just inked everything in by hand....which I eventually did. Ha ha!

The groom will be following soon...I still need to work out a few kinks in his design, so the goober you see in this character sheet is very very liable to change!

Script

This is very liable to change. I just figured I'd post the earliest version of it now, to check off another point of the list our class needs to finish before I can start animating. Actually, this isn't really much of a script...the formatted table required would not transfer to blogger for some reason.

The Wedding Toppers

A Short Film By:
Chrystin Adia Garland

1. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Wedding Bells
ACTION: Shot of bottom of wedding cake. Title Credits.

2. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Oldie, but Goodie Love Song
ACTION: Camera pans vertically up, revealing the different topsy turvy tiers with different colors and patterns. Bride and Groom are ultimately revealed at the very top, holding hands in the “traditional” pose.

3. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Song is still playing.
ACTION: M/S of Bride and Groom staring into each other’s eyes lovingly. They lean in for a kiss.

4. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Song is still playing. Sucking Face noise.
ACTION: Bride and Groom are making out.

5. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Song stops Abruptly. Record Scratching Noise. Popping Noise. Small, Male, Yelp.
ACTION: Groom pulls away from Bride with a little yelp.

6. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: None
ACTION: C/U of Groom’s face. His lips have been bitten off by the Bride, and there is a big chocolaty hole where his mouth should be.

7. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: None
ACTION: M/S of Groom looking at Bride accusingly. Bride shrinks back.

8. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: None
ACTION: C/U of Bride looking “sorry” and embarrassed, while she licks the chocolate off her lips.

9. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: None
ACTION: C/U of Groom raising an eyebrow thoughtfully.

10. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: None
ACTION: Both the Bride and the Groom look at each other for a bit, and then give a wicked smile.

11. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Music plays again.
ACTION: Bride and Groom then attack each other in another face-eating make out session.

12. SPEAKER: None
SOUND EFFECT: Music playing.
ACTION: Camera pans upward for End Credits.