Animatic take two

So after two full days of drawing and placing I have another animatic to show. Yay. This one is pretty close to how I want the film to look, it's hard to make it work better without actually animating. I'll sure I'll end up tweeking it in production, but there you go.

Anyway... Animatic!

Also... yeah, not sound yet but that is my next move!

Animatic!!!

Ok, so this is my animatic for my film 'Don't Step on the Crack'. It's missing some key sounds.
Like at the beginning, before the title, there will be sounds of my monster walking up and huffing as he sits down. Also the sounds of the people. But the foley is so far taken from youtube, which I will not be doing for my actual film. This animatic is also a working progress. Especially as it exported a bit funny (it was widescreen at one point).

Anyway, I enjoyed making it.

Story

This is my story so far. It's for a 1 minute film created in flash. It definatly needs tweeking but this is what I have at the moment;

A monster sits down by the side of the pavement and waits like he’s sat by a lake ready to fish. Soon a little bird lands on his nose, he bats it away irritably. The bird flies around his head and lands on his nose again. He growls and shoes it away again but it does the same thing. The monster gets too angry and snaps it into his mouth in a fury but doesn’t chew.

After he calms down he feels guilty about the bird, after a short deliberation he opens his mouth wide ‘aaaaaghhhhh’ and the bird flies out around his head and lands on his nose again. He smiles and leaves it there.

Just as you think the film is about to end, the camera has started a slow and happy zoom out, a person walks past and the monster grabs them. The screen goes black on the sound of a loud snap (something like he’s bitten their head off).

The end.

I've also drawn up my first very rough storyboard and painstakingly scanned it in. Please click to enlarge so you can actually see what's going on. Any comments welcome (on storyboard and story)

My Idea

This was my first idea, handed in on Wednesday 28th of September.

Why?

I want to make a short film that is fully realised and complete. I want it to be something that I am proud of and that I can use in a Show reel.

I would also like something that I can put out in the festival circuit.

What?

It is going to be a short and sweet animation with a complete story arch. The premise is that a boy steps on a crack and falls down into the bogeyman’s lair. But, he is only imaging and is snapped out of his nightmarish daydream by his older sister.

How?

It will be a hand drawn animation, with the safe half of story being traditionally coloured (watercolour or pencil) and the nightmare coloured in Photoshop with a more graphic style.

I want to complete this project alone, but will need help with sound/ music.