Sketches

TO DO LIST / ENVIRONMENTS

Beach

1. Kiosk Details (no repeat)
2. Fence Thinner
3. Characters: Adults, Kids
4. Birds
5. Wind: Paper, leaves

Sun

1. Clouds
2. Sun

Highway

1. Different Cars: Interior, Convertible (main car)

Cactus

1. Cactus Redesign
2. Crow/Blackbird
3. Rocks/Cliffs

Child

1. No Fence
2. Park/Playground/Swing
3. Lipstick

Bacon

1. Trees Redesign
2. Tent: Icebox, chair, logs
3. Fire

Porcupine

1. Porcupine Redesign
2. Colorful Spikes?
3. Simplify Composition


Crocodile

1. Croc Design: Eyes, teeth, shape, tex
2. Water Design
3. Simplify Composition

Ending

1. Ocean
2. Sunset?

Denny

1. Character
- Main Girl
- Hairstyle
- Hand
- Facial Features
- Adult (2)
- Salesman
- Girl/Boy (2 each)
- Hairstyle
- All Detail

2. Trees
3. Cactus
4. Toys
5. Tent

Schedule | Week 11

Week 11

1. Final Camera-matic
2. Primary Environments
3. Balloon Animation WIP
4. Submit Sound Design/Music/Narration
5. Typography Explorations
6. Revise Character Designs ---> Denny

* FIRST ROUGH CUT

Week 12

1. Final Cut v1
2. Secondary Environments
3. Refined Balloon Animation
4. Sound Design/Music v1
5. Final Typography

* TEST RENDERS

Week 13

1. Compositing
2. Final Render!

SCHEDULE

animation tests | cactus and child

disconnected scenes, pasted together for just a test

Music

http://www.gautestoraas.no/

Week 10 / Environments and Type

styleframes_swamp & forest

Opening Shot, Test Render

balloon pull

Highway

Opening Scene Screen Grabs

Kiosk, Bacon, Girl, Cactus | STYLEFRAMES

Week 10-14 / Schedule

Week10

1. all environments model

2. finalize camera-matic

3. balloon animation wip

4. music

5. narration

Week11

1. Animate 4 scenes

- intro/beach (ivan)

- bacon (james)

- kid (micael)

- porcupine (jeff)

on call: kevin

Week12

1. Animate 5 scenes

- sun (james)

- highway (kevin)

- desert (micael)

- swamp (jeff)

- deflate / ending (ivan)

on call: micael

Week13

1. compositing

2. sound design

3. render

4. update all 8 scenes

Week14

1. render

Design Rules

Design Rules

1. Balloons -> Photo Real

2. Key Items -> Miniatures

- Kiosk

- Sun

- Cars

- Cactus

- Kid / Children

- Bacon / Frying Pan

- Porcupine

- Crocodile

3. Secondary -> Paper Craft / 2.5d / Rounded

- Tree

- Clouds

- Fire

- Tent

- Smoke

- Water / Ocean

- Ground

- Toys

4. Background -> Matt Painting

- Sky

- Desert

- Mountains

- Beach

- Forest

- Highway

- Backyard

- Swamp

maybe this direction?

http://vectroave.com/2010/05/people-too-paper-art/

Camera-Matic v2 / Subtitle Version

We cut it down to 1:35 (without end credits).
It's gonna be about 1:50 with end credits.

Swamp

character

Desert Styleframe

FOREST DENSITY EXAMPLES

Especially notice the distinct foreground, middle ground, and background elements. One single tree just cloned a ton of times wont create convincing depth.

Foreground elements are defined with exacting branches and unique shapes.
Middle ground elements are more cluttered, and largely serve to define an interesting horizon line shape. Note how large objects like hills, rocks, or knocked over tree trunks can serve to fill in the middle ground, and create more variety rather than just shrubs.
Background elements are desaturated, blurred, and can then be mostly kind of randomized clones, or just a matte painting.

On this one they're using a much more simplified style, but notice how the foreground elements are still the most detailed, while the middle ground actually becomes just a flat 1-color cutout matte painting, and the background is the mountain more desaturated and light due to atmospheric perspective.

Kiosk Styleframe 02

SKETCH REF FOR STYLEFRAMES

CHRIS WARE INSPIRATION

KAAN'S NOTES

OPENING
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- push balloons closer to the stand
- swing camera around on an angle a little bit
- less space between first two dialogue lines
- trim down all sequences
- don't have the pull out wide shot match the other wide shot
- more shots at an angle
- don't show "Eight Balloons" right next to the actual balloons, give it mystery
- simplify the kiosk, like the small round sort of kiosks with the little roofs, add a flag
- you reveal the balloons by rotating around the rounded kiosk
- maybe add candy, balls, sunglasses, postcards, along with the toys as well
- the structure can be simpler, but the inside is rich and full of detail.. sort of like a figure drawing where the detail is in certain facial expressions that then bleeds out to looser sketches of shoulders, etc


SUN
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- don't show the sun until it says "sun" at the end
- sun/balloon POV shots trimmed down or out significantly


HIGHWAY
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- side shot is too long
- so are others (see Kaan's edit)


CACTUS
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- lose the first dropping down shot


BACON
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- trim wide drifting shot


PORCUPINE
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- speed up flirt scene
- cut the face to face scene


CROCODILE
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- show crocodile eye opening first
- trim up scenes


EDING
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- longer fade down
- slower pull out




OTHER NOTES
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- have a female read the poem to test it out
- maybe no particles when it pops
- music can be more playful, doesn't have to be sad
- uplifting happy music
- try both ways though
- try a version with just subtitles and no voices at all
- characters more inspired by michael lau
** MAGICAL REALISM **

Animatic v3 + Camera-Matic v1

Bacon Styleframe 01

models & porcupine animation

Swamp Styleframe 001

Ballon Drag Face Tests

Rejected:
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Balloon string physics tests

ANAMORPHIC RATIO IN PIXELS

FINAL = 1728 x 720
ROUGH = 1296x540
REALLY ROUGH = 1152x480


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