Schedule

Here's my schedule for how I'll be finishing up the work. You may notice how short the time maybe on each scene. I'm first getting all the background work out of the way. And secondly each scene is short so there are a lot but they're not that long. And the animation will mostly be symbol based. Only the main character is full animation.

Scene 1-12 BG draw: DONE BG color: 7 Total: 7 hrs	Scene 4 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 2 Ani Clean:1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 4 hrs	Scene 10 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: .5 Total: 2.5 hrs	Import Sound	Present
Scene 1 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1.5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani color: 1 Total: 3.5 hrs.	Scene 5 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1.5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 3.5 hrs	Scene 11 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1 Ani Clean: .5 Ani Color: .5 Total: 2 hrs	Tweaking and Reworking
Scene 2 BG: DONE Ani Rough: .5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani color: .5 Total: 2 hrs	Scene 6 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 2.5 Ani Clean: 1.5 Ani color: 1 Total: 5 hrs	Scene 12 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 2 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 4 hrs.
Scene 3 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1.5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 3.5hrs	Scene 7 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 2.5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 4.5 hrs.

Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
	Scene 8 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 2 Ani Clean: .5 Ani Color: .5 Total: 3 hrs
	Scene 9 BG: DONE Ani Rough: 1.5 Ani Clean: 1 Ani Color: 1 Total: 3.5

Storyboards

Here are the storyboards for my project:

Production

I've moved from pre-production to the Production stage. Everything has been keyframed and now the tween part begins. I'm doing a mixture of full animation and symbol based animation. It will be interesting to experiment and see how the two work with each other. I'm quite green to the cut-out
style of animation. I'm excited and look forward to seeing how it turns out.

Droning

Here is the design for the drones that attack our Heroine. enjoy

Tutorials

ere are the tutorials that I've been working on for the past few weeks. It is a little later than others so I'm just posting all them together.

Villain part 2

Here's our main villain, Johnny Moorebucks. Rich, greedy, and evil, a potent combination! He has many rare items in his collection but our heroine is only after one: the giant diamond. It becomes apparent that Johnny and our heroine have had some history.
Johnny's your typical rich villain, always wanting more. And to top him off he's got a hook for a hand, cause all the best villains have hooks for hands!

Script

A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
By: Todd Hoppmeyer

FADE IN

EXT. Megalith Corp. Building- NIGHT

CUT TO

EXT. Roof of Megalith building- NIGHT

There is a hole cut into the glass sky-light with a grappling hook leading down into the building.

PAN THROUGH OBJECT as we follow the rope down to VIXEN who drops off onto the ground.

INT. Megalith Museum- NIGHT

The only light is that of the moonlight. VIXEN notices her target, a large diamond. Just as she’s about to nab the jewel, the room is lit up as an alarm sounds. Laser cannons pop out of the ceiling while ATTACK DRONES raise from the floor.

VIXEN notices three figures from behind.

JOHNNY
(points toward VIXEN)
It’s, YOU, VIXEN!

VIXEN
(narrowing eyes)
You got it hot stuff!

VIXEN leaps between the lasers guarding the diamond and rolls to safety on the other side. Lasers begin to fire. VIXEN uses quick acrobatics to dodge each beam. Suddenly a DRONE appears from behind. It swipes. VIXEN leaps up. She lifts her right hand revealing claws and slashes the DONE’S visor. She then kicks. More DRONES approach. She reflects lasers off the gem destroying DRONES. Out numbered VIXEN leaps across the heads of the DRONES, against a pillar, and nabs her robe.

EXT. Megalith building roof – NIGHT

VIXEN climbs out of her hole only to be grabbed by GAUNTLET. With a kick to the jaw she’s out of his grasp. A blade cuts her arm; RAZOR prepares for another strike. A climatic fight ensues in the moonlight. GUANTLET gets up and fires his energy. VIXEN sees the energy from over RAZOR’S shoulder and leaps up. RAZOR is hit by the energy from behind. GUANTLET looks around, unable to locate VIXEN. He looks up only to be greeted by a heel to the face.

FLASH FRAME

GAUNTLET is down.

JOHN MOOREBUCKS climbs to the roof.

POV He sees his goons beaten on the ground. TRUCK UP to find VIXEN standing on the edge of the roof with her mask off and diamond in hand.

VIXEN blows a kiss then leaps off the edge. Firing a grappling gun she swings and WHIPES TO BLACK.

THE END

Hired Hands

Here's our goons. Two hired hands with the right hands for the job.

Shifting Gears

Hey all. Been a while since I updated. This new update comes with changes. I've changed my premise for my animation due to lack of direction and interest in my previous idea. The previous idea was most likely going to be a little too long anyway. Here's the new story:

It's a beautiful night in the city. The moon is big and bright. Running across the roof tops of buildings is a shadow. This shadow is none other than a jewel thief. She opens up the sky light window and has her eyes set on a rare gemerald. As she lowers herself down she thinks all is good. Everything goes accorrding to plan and she is just about to snag the gemerald until the alarm suddenly rings. Suddenly security tightens. Laser guns appear out of the walls and begin to fire. Guard robots pop out of the ground. And to make matters worse are two hired goons who have unique abilities. How will she get out of this one?

With cool action and kicking kung fu moves she weaves her way through the lasers and takes out the robots. But the goons are no slouches. She takes them out and see's the owner of the gem. They exchange pleasantries showing that they've had history and then she makes her get away leaving the mess for Mr. Richy Rich to pick up.

Clearly action based. Not much story to it. But this gives me more flexability to do what I aim to achieve in this class.