Scenes

My film is now 15 seconds longer, so a revision of the duration of each scene is in order:

Scene 1 (External house) [0:04]
Scene 2 (Couple sleeping) [0:02]
Scene 3 (Kitchen) [0:34]
Scene 4 (Footprints/Stairs) [0:12]
Scene 5 (Onion) [0:12]
Scene 6 (Belly rub) [0:25]
Scene 7 (Pumpernickel face squish) [0:10]
Scene 8 (Almost fall) [0:11]
Scene 9 (Actual fall) [0:09]
Scene 10 (Couple in disbelief) [0:02]
Scene 11 (Credits) [0:10]

Animatic Revised

This is going to be the final version of how Pumpernickel will play out.

It's taken me far longer to finish this than it should, and I was pretty frustrated with the ordeal, mainly because I don't really know perspective all that well. Luckily, Dave was able to help me!

Overall, I'm really happy with this version and I'm eager to start animating.

Background #1

My first background is all done! We'll be staring at this still image for five seconds of the film!

My other layouts from now on are going to be really rough so I can move onto animating. I just did the final version of this bg because it won't have any animation, and because I wanted to post something that would resemble the final look of Pumpernickel. Obviously Ugly Americans and Mike Mignola were big influences.

Onward!

Onion Head

I haven't really been updating as much as I'd like to...
I've been over thinking a lot of things when really I just want to move onto layout.

Still, hopefully I'll have an updated animatic by the end of the day.

But anyway, I decided to alter Onion Head's design a little bit, and make him more intimidating.

Animatic (rough sound)

My first animatic, and already I'm thinking of making quite a few changes:

-Make Onion more sinister
-Pumpernickel runs towards the staircase (cut him throwing the axe into the wall)
-Give Onion more things to due, like close the blinds, sharpen his axe, have him pull
out a to-do list, etc.
-Maybe have Onion enter through the first floor ???
-For the end credits sequence, have Pumpernickel bury the body in the backyard, and
it pan out to reveal multiple mounds of dirt.

What's most important though, is that people thought it was funny - so mission accomplished! Also as a side note, I most likely won't be using 70% of the sound I used for this animatic, since I'll be making my own via field recorder.

Home Layout

The entirety of Pumpernickel takes place in two areas; the kitchen, and the 2nd floor hallway.

I've now come to the realization that it is waaaaay easier to have a film that takes place outside than a confined space - everything has to make sense!

This was actually kinda tricky figuring out how the house works, but I think it turned out okay. Excuse my chicken scratch.

Schedule for FALL 2011

Is it just me or is schedule a weird word?
Anyway, this is probably going to wind up being very loose, but the goal is to get most, if not all my film roughed out before next semester. Good luck, me!

09/26 – Storyboards / Treatment
09/28 – Storyboards
WEEKEND – Storyboards completed and/or start animatic. By this point have active website.
10/03 – Rough Animatic
10/05 – Animatic
WEEKEND – Animatic completed. Start character turnarounds
10/10 – Character turnarounds, Finish artist bio, work on resume and cover letter, rough sound finished
10/12 – resume, cover letter
WEEKEND – Poster/ Start final backgrounds
10/17 – Backgrounds
10/19 – Backgrounds
WEEKEND – Start animating SCENE 1
10/24 – Finish SCENE 1 rough, Start SCENE 3 rough
10/26 – Finish SCENE 3 rough, Start SCENE 10 rough
WEEKEND – Finish SCENE 10 rough, Start SCENE 7 rough
10/31 – SCENE 7 rough
11/02 – SCENE 7 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 4 rough
11/07 – SCENE 4 rough
11/09 – SCENE 9 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 9 rough
11/14 – SCENE 6 rough
11/16 – SCENE 6 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 6 rough, SCENE 8 rough
11/21 – SCENE 8 rough
11/23 – SCENE 8 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 5 rough
11/28 – SCENE 5 rough
11/30 – SCENE 5 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 2 rough
12/05 – SCENE 2 rough
12/07 – SCENE 2 rough
WEEKEND – SCENE 2 rough
12/12 – SCENE 2 rough




Scene 1 (External house/ couple sleeping) [0:06]
Scene 2 (Kitchen) [0:34]
Scene 3 (Stairs) [0:03]
Scene 4 (Onion entrance) [0:10]
Scene 5 (Belly rub) [0:15]
Scene 6 (Axe throw) [0:14]
Scene 7 (Pumpernickel face squish) [0:08]
Scene 8 (Almost fall) [0:14]
Scene 9 (Actual fall) [0:10]
Scene 10 (Couple in disbelief) [0:02]