It's a dark stormy night.... oops wrong one
*ahem* Take your traditional story: Knight, valiant and strong. Damsel in distress locked in the highest tower of the castle. Throw in a typical dragon, evil wizard, and a monkey with a monocle and crazy action. The Knight fights past the evil do-ers, makes his way to the tower. The Princess is over joyed and rushes to him. He rushes forward. She opens her arms to embrace him... but he runs past her! She waits a second. She stops. Turns. Low and behold he's hugging a glass of milk and plate of cookies on a table behind her. Cut back to reality. A little girl and little boy playing dress up. The boy wears a bucket on his head and cardboard armor, the girl in dress-up princess gown. She's steamed at him for ruining her fantasy dress up story. He's just happy he made it to the cookies.
That's it so far. Tell me what you guys think. Good, bad, silly, not silly, too over the top, you love cookies. Which ever. My aim is to have dynamic fun action with the knight and monster sequence then add some fun humor in when we return to reality.
Oh and below are some concept art of the boy and girl and the knight ... who doesn't look very knight-ish. Model sheets coming soon!
5 comments:
I like it, just remember to keep it simple and short. With so many characters, it might make the piece too long and you won't complete it in time.
How about quick cuts showing a small snippet of a scene involving each "bad-guy" character.
The idea sounds great bro! When executing the story, have a strong (and lengthy enough) build-up of action as the knight rushes up the tower to save the princess. That way the viewer feels like he's really going to rescue her, until they see the visual punch line you've saved for the end. FORSOOTH!!!
I like your idea and I can't wait to see your final animation!
By the way, you said you are a part of a Chinese family, so do you have a family member that is Chinese?
The idea is really neat and I like the twist at the end. Like Jen I suggest you try to keep it short so that you can complete the animation in time. The only other suggestion I have is just be careful with making the beginning too stereotypical of that particular plot since everyone's seen this same story before. You might even want to push the characters so they start off as exaggerations and hint or suggest that they are in fact just kids. I can't wait to see what you do with it and I think where you have it end with the boy loving the cookies and the girl mad at him works as a fun twist. Good luck to you.
ha, that sounds great! reminds me of some of those sunday calvin and hobbes strips.... :D
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