Wednesday, September 5, 2007

..::And the Animation Begins::..

There comes a time in every modeler's life that he must take a break from modeling (feels like i just got started and now i have to switch gears). Anyway, this year is devoted to my animation. I'll be doing modeling and imaging on the side, but the animation takes priority. So, I am currently in the Story Development of my animation now. So far, this is what I have been thinking:

The young husband swallows his toothbrush – My Premise
  1. Guy brushes teeth in the mirror of his bathroom.
  2. An attractive female wife dressed in sexy lingerie walks by and then drops her night grown in front of the bathroom door.
  3. Guy gets excited of what is to come and accidentally swallows his toothbrush
  4. Guy tries to get toothbrush out with hand, but doesn’t manage to get it out
  5. He resorts to desperate measures and uses odd bathroom items to fish out the toothbrush
  6. He goes into a panic and irrationally begins to bounce around the bathroom until he hits a towel rack knocking him unconscious. The impact sends the toothbrush flying.
  7. Next scene is in a dimly lit bedroom and the wife is asleep in bed. The guy crawls in and smiles huge revealing brilliant white teeth that illuminate the room and the scene cuts.

So, Obviously this needs a lot of work, but I have a whole semester to develop it. Any ideas or suggestions are gladly welcomed at this point. I wanted to keep it simple and do a comedic animation so that we I can concentrate on Character Design, Story, and Animation rather the drudging over a "unique concept". Oh, and on a side note, my friend Jacob Gardner got an animation job with Dreamworks and is moving out to Cali in a couple of weeks. He graduated in May from BG. So, I just wanted to extend a congratulations to him. I'll write more about my animation soon...

4 comments:

Ashley Richhart said...

1. What is the woman doing the whole time he is trying to get the toothbrush out...is she helping him?...does she know that he is having this problem?

Ashley Richhart said...

2. what type of "odd objects" will be used to get the toothbrush out?

Sylvan Management said...

hi wayne, if there's anyway you can use cloth simulation for when she drops her robe i think that would really set the animation off right. when i read that he uses odd objects to get the toothe brush out i immediately thought of a toilet plunger around his mouth. Mmmm doesnt that sound tasty

Max Morrison said...

Sounds like a good story depending on what he uses to get the tooth brush out. You should use as many off the wall things as possible.

I guess the only issue I have with this is that it could be done in real life, so make sure the characters aren't too human looking. You probably know that already, but yeah. Make it very cartoony and throw as many extra obstacles you can think of in it.