Monday 28 November 2011

Angels, Time plans and stuff

My current animation was given the original concept 'XYZ' for which we were supposed to elaborate on and come up with a final idea. Just quickly so you know what I'm on about; X is a nordic rune called Geofu, it is supposed to relate to all things lovey dovey, there is also a rune called Eolh that resembles a Y symbolising protection and friendship and my Z was the guardian angel Zadkiel who is supposedly also well known for his protection-'ness'. In the animation a 'damsel in distress' is being attacked by a dragon, the angel Zadkiel appears to save her and sends the dragon away using magic. The damsel in distress is grateful and falls in love with her rescuer, she hugs him to have him reject her and fly away. A back story was going to be that Zadkiel too was falling in love with her but anyone who knows their angel stuff will tell you that angels are not allowed to fall for mere mortals. Doing so will apparently cause them to 'fall' from heaven. So anyway, Zadkiel's flying away and the damsel is all upset; she then casts the love rune Geofu as a spell causing Zadkiel to love her. The spell catches up with him and he 'falls' from heaven.
This is the time plan for the animation which gives a list of the assets for my cutout animation and the actions of the characters I need to animate.



Scene

Background

Middle ground

Characters

Animated

Render

SFX
Sky
Trees 1
Trees 2
Trees 3
Damsel
Angel
Dragon
Damsel
Angel
Dragon
Backgrounds

1


X

X

X

X

X

-

X
Reacts - terrified
-
Leers at Damsel


Gasps
Growl

2


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-
Appears/ head up/
flies

-


Wind howling

3


X

X

X

X

X

-


X
Cowers from Dragon

-
Dragon breathes in


Growly laughter & screaming

4


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-
Casts Eolh (sword moves)

-



Sword swinging

5


X

X

X

X

-

-

X

-


-
Dragon breathes fire


Fire roaring

6


X

X

X

X

X

-

X
Cowering tensed realizes she’s not toast


-
Breathing fire (It’s stopped by a force field)


Shield humming
Fire and whimpering



7


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-
Pushed
Backwards
by exertion of spell

-



Grunt of exertion

8



X

X



X

X

-

-


X

-

-

Opens eyes
Stops fire


“huh?”

9


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-

Casts the second spell

-


Sword swinging

10


X

X

X

X

-

X

X

-
Charging the spell
Glowing and such
Growling frowning rawr


Electricity sparks and growling

11


X

X

X

X

-

-

X

-

-
Hit by spell


Sonic boom

12


X

X

X

X

-

-

X

-


-
Flies away


Wings flapping

13


X

X

X

X

X

X

-
Spins to face Zadkiel
Lands behind Damsel gestures (are you okay?)

-


Wind and gasps

14


X

X

X

X

X

X

-
Runs and hugs Zadkiel
Confused and shocked he pushes her away

-


Shocked protest

15


X

X

X

X

-

X

-


-
Runs away and breaks into flight

-


Footsteps

16


X

X

X

X

X

X

-
Crying in foreground
Flying away in background

-


Crying

17


X

X

X

X

X

-

-
Casts Geofu

-

-


Tinkling spell noise

18


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-

Flying away in two different shots

-
Spell catches up with Zadkiel

Wings flapping and spell SFX getting louder

19


X

X

X

X

-

X

-

-
Falls screaming feathers falling out like Icarus



Screaming