Sunday, January 17, 2021

My Specialism Project: My Journey into Storyboarding-Sketch Club


My Specialism Project-Storyboarding


One Sheet Poster


Idea: A teaser trailer for an animated feature.

Working Title: Sketch Club

Logline: Cartoonist gets lost in his imagination.

Premise: Aspiring cartoonist, Dan McCoy is struggling to sell his first comic strip and winds up getting mentally sucked into an imaginary world based on his childhood drawings.

Genre: Computer Animated/2D Animated Comedy Drama

Themes: Self-Discovery, Progression, Imagination, Nostalgia, Solipsism.


Influences

  
 

 



  

  

  

Shooting Script (First Draft)




Research

Child Drawings





 

 








Development

Moodboards

Dan's Moodboards


Copper's Moodboards


Exploratory Sketches of Dan and Copper

                                                                 

Character Sheets

Meet Dan


Real Life -an and Sketch-Dan


Copper


Sketch-Dan and Copper


3D Modeling Sheet



Dan's Minimalist Character Turnover




Copper's Minimalist Character Turnover


Cinematography & Lighting

The Two Worlds

Real World (3D): Illinois, Chicago


Real World (3D) to Imaginary World (2D)



Minimalist Animation Style for Imaginary World

 


Cinematography & Lighting


My Photography Work for Cinematography Reference





Colour Scheme for Lighting

Core Singular Colour
                                  
                      
Complimentary Colours
               

IMAX Aspect Ratio


Cast

           

Robert Downey, Jr.  as the voice of Dan McCoy


            

Stephen Merchant as the voice of Copper


Rough Thumbnails




Storyboards







Colour Script


Animatic (Rough Cut)



Shooting Script (Redraft)




Storyboards (Re-board)







Exclusive Annotations (Third Re-Board)















Animatic (Second Cut)


Beat Sheets (Fourth Re-Board)


+Fade in
+Fade to Black

Colour Script (Re-Boarded)



Final Specialist Tutor Notes on Animatic


Animatic (Final Cut)


Test Screening Audience Notes




 

 
 



Result of the Test Screening: Successful

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