Character: An Unlikely Admirer - Storyboard

Pikatti: Animatic v.3 With Sound

Pikatti: Animatic v. 3 (No Sound)

We have added some new storyboard panels and adjusted some other parts of the animatic such as removing zooms, adding more close-ups and changing the timing of some of the clips. There is currently no audio because some sounds need to now be added and moved around.

Pikatti: Sound Design Progress

Even though our animatic and script still require some adjustments, I've decided to begin editing and piece together the sound effects I've been gathering up over the last few weeks. This is only a small portion of our animatic and it sill needs some other details such as the jingle of the dog's name-tag, but I figured I'd post an update on the progress I've made so far. It's taking me a while to sort out some audio for the boy (which is not all featured in this clip, I'm hoping I've made/edited all of the clips that I will need) but I think it's come out alright. We are hoping that the sound will clarify some aspects of the story including explaining the collar belonged to his dog who passed away. I also have begun working on sounds for the fox, which I am hoping will help the audience know that there is a difference between the boy's dead dog and the fox.

Fantastic Voyage: Rough New Animatic

Since I now have my voiceover, I decided to quickly piece together an animatic so I know the new timing better for when I start animating. It only has the voice and is missing the sound effects but I at least have a better idea of the timing/pacing now. I also changed the sequence 0:26-0:44 so there were less scenes where it's just a black screen (in the animatic I just reused some storyboards of kelp and bacteria silhouettes).

Fantastic Voyage: Pitch Presentation

Pitch Presentation

Fantastic Voyage: The Leviathan Animatic (w/ Narration, Sound Effects, Music)

I added a bit of a vignette to this in After Effects, I'm not sure if it's too subtle or not subtle enough but I was just experimenting with it. I also tried adding some colour filters but it looked odd so I'll experiment with colour more in my concept art. The music and most of the sound effects are pretty quiet because I was worried the narration would get drowned out.

Fantastic Voyage: Pitch Animatic w/ Subtitles and Updated Script

I've gone back and added subtitles to hopefully fix the timing on my animatic so I can now add narration and sound effects to it along with some music as long as I have time after finishing some concept paintings. I've also updated my script so it matches up with my storyboard/animatic. 

Fantastic Voyage: Storyboards for The Pitch

After making these storyboards, there are a few things in my script I need to touch up and change. I added a few extra frames and changed some of the transitions (cuts, cross dissolves, fade to black). I also added a few close ups of the bacteria's faces/teeth (panels 35, 36, 37) because I felt it needed something more.

Fantastic Voyage: The Leviathan Animatic I Progress

I still need to add in the bacteria ripping apart some kelp, the final kelp forest scene and the Leviathan sequence. I also need to readjust the timing but I think that'll be easier once I have subtitles (later to be replaced with narration) and other sound effects. I like how it's coming along so far, thanks to Jordan's lesson about using Photoshop to create quick animation/animatics I'm able to make the storyboard alongside the animatic faster than before with movements instead of just using only arrows. In my final animation, the bacteria near the end will have more spikes and bigger mouthes/teeth but for now I'm just trying to get the basic scenes blocked out.

Fantastic Voyage: First Storyboard Panels and Script Draft II

I hoped to get more than this done today, but I took some time to finish touching up my script using the amendments Phil sent. I'm guessing I might need to move some things around in the script once I start doing more storyboard panels. I also spent time organizing my concept art files, research, influence maps, and making sure my storyboard files were more organized than the last project. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what panel/layer/effect was where during From Script to Screen. Hopefully it'll save me time later on. These are only the first few storyboards but I think it's coming along alright so far. Also, I found a video I watched ages ago about a Leviathan...I really thought the sound effects for the creature were inspiring, so I'll include it on the bottom of this post.

The Leviathan -- Teaser from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

From Script to Screen: Final Crit Presentation

Art Of Compass by Deanna

From Script to Screen: Final Animatic (Sound and Music)

From Script to Screen: Compass Animatic (With Sound)

From Script to Screen: Test Animatic #1 (Without Sound)

I've put together a test animatic so I can play around with the pacing and timing. I feel as though some of the images in the beginning of the animatic might go too quickly, but I'm trying to be aware of the length of the animatic which is already over 2 minutes. Any feedback regarding the timing in my animatic would be very appreciated. Once I get the pacing down I'm going to have a better look at some sounds to add.

From Script to Screen: Updated Storyboard

After the OGR and developing more concept art, I went back and remade some of my storyboard panels, added some more panels and added some colour.