Credit Animation Board

Mardi did an awesome job creating the story that plays during the credits of the short.

Fun and exciting, check out the board.


Molly Sandwich Credit Storyboard v1

Vortex

Taking what Meg just did, she went in and implemented them more with the current storyboard. Notice how a cloud looms behind the bus. When she gets attacked by the sandwich, the clouds start to swirl around her "HA HA HA" emitting from them, and then the screen effortlessly transitions into the vortex.

Discovered Scribd!

James found this nifty sight, now feel free to view the boards in a quick and easy .pdf format!


Molly Sandwich Storyboard

Cleaning up the boards more

The boards are still rough, but James was able to clean them up from their sketch book versions. Awesomeness.

Read from left to right. Feel free to check out the boards on Google Doc for easier viewing by clicking on this link, or checking on the right side bar, where the Story Boards are constantly updated.

Once the document loads on Google Doc you have the option to Print out or Download a copy for yourself by going to the File menu on the upper left hand corner of the Doc. 

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Final Storyboards: Rough

James polished up the rough boards last night.

Read from left to right. Boards will be polished up better on Sunday, and the animatic for timing will be done at the end of the month. More in-betweens will be added to the animatic for the animators on mid January.

 

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More revisions on the Story Boards

These are more revisions on the same board.

Storyboard revisions

Straight from James sketch book.

This is the new storyboards with the final story. I understand it might be hard to read, I'll try and add some kind of narrative.

Read from the very Left to the very Right.

Few Story Boards - Ideas are always changing

Today Alex and James came in with some story boards. I apologize first hand, because I forgot to grab Alex's boards from him, but they're good. I'll update when he gets back in town.

For Alex's idea, when the girl gets pecked by the sandwich, she gets consumed and a black vortex appears and sucks her into this black void. As she is falling, the tomato is chucking tomatoes at her. She gets chucked in the face and her glasses fly in the air and bust the sandwich with light magnifying through the glasses lens.

For  James' idea.. it takes off where the last boards end that are in the same series.

But when the girl comes back to the real world, her and the sandwich have a face. Theres a huge slow mo battle scene where the girl bursts the sandwich with the sunray/glasses attack. The kids on the bus observe this and get scared. Their silhouette moves to one side of the bus as she gets on and the story ends there.

Merging both ideas, we came up with:

The sandwich is thrown at the girls face, she immediately gets swallowed in this embarrassment vortex the leads to a black empty void. In the void, she is falling and falling. The girl looks behind her and notices a giant sandwich monster flying towards her. The sandwich repeats attacks on the girl by throwing tomatoes and the like. As they are falling in the void, they pass through occasional rays of light, then the girl realizes every time she passes through a ray of light, her glasses catch the light and magnifies the power into a beam which injures the sandwich. The girl then takes advantage of this situation and blasts the sandwich full power. This blasts a whole in the void and the camera cuts back to the real world. The girl is just standing there with her glasses held above her head, with a smoking open face sandwich lying at her feet. She gets on the bus and the other passengers run to one side in fear. END.

 An extremely rough animatic will be done on Tuesday. The timing will probably give a better feel for the story.

Story Update

Had a meeting with Professor Tom Richner again. He gave us some interesting new ideas as far as the story goes. He suggested we not close off other ideas yet and to consider some new ones.

Maybe we can have the girl hit the monster with sun beams bouncing off her glasses.
Maybe we should try for a bigger pay off in the end, other than her just getting back onto the bus. There could be a bully the the girl actually fights back with, etc. What if the whole thing took place in a cafeteria oppose to the bus stop.

A lot of interesting ideas, we're going to take what we can and come up with some story boards for the next meeting. The story is important to finish, but I understand we have to continue strong with production as well.

Another story meet

No pictures to show here, but we did meet again today to try and clean up the ending we had from last night. Still having trouble linking it together. We were able to steal a professor, Tom Richner, away to take a look at what we have. His comments and ideas were definitely enlightening.

One idea he had was to keep the girl in shadow till she gets called a "NERD!". Then reveal light on her coming from the bus. It's a really cool idea that can give a stronger intro to the character and maybe a more fun gag moment in the beginning.

Another was to switch the setting from the bus stop to the cafeteria, and then have her fighting back in the end by throwing food.  Which makes complete sense, but is kind of cumbersome to move the story like that so far into the production schedule. We're going to try and take that idea and implement it in what we have.

On top of that, we were able to eliminate a lot of ideas and bring new ones to the table. Here's to a brighter future and a finished story.

Keep moving on.

Story Session

At our last meeting, we made a time to meet on Tuesday for a story brainstorming session. We met at a house, pushed the furniture out of the way, took down wall decorations, and piled post-it notes on the floor. Went to town.

Here's what we came up with, very rough.. very rough. These aren't the final compositions or acting. We're just getting the story down. Read from Left to Right.

We like whats forming so far, but we do realize some flaws. After the last post-it the girl then runs to.. something.. and skids to a stop at a cliff. She pulls a big head of carrot out of the ground, only to realize it's dinky. She chucks the dinky carrot at the monster and reached again for another one. This one is a huge.. "sword" carrot. As the sandwich monster lunges for her, she thrusts at the monster and catapults it off the cliff. The monster falls of the cliff in slow mo and then transitions too..

The idea is working, and it's working great. But we really need to tie in those loose ends fast.

Towards the end of the meeting, James whipped out the guitar and we all started singing an intro to the film, improv style. Just for fun, to let the brain breath and keep the meeting light hearted. Then we came up with the name for the short, which was just jotted down on a post-it days before.

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Keep checking back and feel free to comment your ideas. We need them ^_^

A nice taste of the environments

Meg made a few sketches on different ideas of the environment. Can't wait to see what she can really do. Once the Character Designs are done this weekend, she will be giving environments on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it.

The bus climbing the San Francisco hill to her house.

The girl waiting at the bus stop.

Little bit of a concept of the abstract 'sandwich land'

Just an abstract thought process. Helps keep the art moving.

We mentioned last meeting on having her being led out the door by her mom. This introduces the idea more.

Story Board Roughs

James busted out some story boards so we can have an idea of how the intro is playing out. We're still developing them, but they are an awesome start of what's to come.

The girl is walking up to the bus. Close up on her face the shadow of the bus fills the screen. Shot from behind the girl looking into the entrance of the bus. Wide shot of the bus and girl. Someone yells "NERD!" from inside the bus.

Shot from the bus looking at the girl. A hand throws a sandwich. Close up of the girls face.. close up of a sandwich flying.. close close up to the girls face.. close close up to the face of what appears to be an open faced sandwich. Cut to the girl being hit in the face with the sandwich as people start laughing off scream.

Th girl begins to get consumed by the sandwich. Like she is being cocooned inside her own head of fear and embarrassment. The screen goes black, the girl appears in this sandwich world. She looks behind her to see a sandwich, the sandwich turns to reveal his face which is nothing but loose meats/lettuce/etc..

That is how far we got so far. A lot of the shots still need working out, but it's an establishing idea of what we're going for. After talking to Ron after the meeting, he gave us some ideas and concerns to look at:
Does the girl have a mom? Why is she at a bus stop alone? Etc..


These were discussed, and we're adding and adjusting accordingly for the next meeting. Maybe we can fill in this plot holes for a smooth story.

Been 10 Days!

Wow, it's been a long time since an update. Been doing a lot of account maintenance to make sure we have places to upload videos/pictures/tweets/etc..


Had a meeting on 10/22/10. Was awesome. Meg brought in some new character sketches for the characters, but primarily the girl. Check it out:

We decided we loved the one on the top left. Next meeting she will be giving us some more concepts on the monster,girl, and a splash of color ideas.

James made a rough board of an alternate ending we could play with. Although interesting, it was shying away from our original epic ending.

In this, the girl is waiting at the bust stop. Bus pulls into shot. Girl looks into getting on to the bus. The camera cuts to the girl who is being called names from inside the bus, then a passenger throws a sandwich at her. The sandwich morphs around her and changes her world into this dark abstract world that is in her imagination. Chase begins between the girl and a giant sandwich monster. They dead end at a cliff, camera rotates over the shoulder to show the sandwich monster is gaining on her. The girl leaps and barely makes it to the other side as the sandwich leaps after her. The girl is hanging on the ledge. The girl kicks the sandwich and the monster plummets to its death.

We got more boards coming in soon. I'm excited to see them.