Alice Beastiary Animatics

Hi, for the animatics please go to the following link to download.

http://jko.no-ip.info/alice

please download/save a copy onto your drives don't stream off my internet, it will be very slow for you.

Alice Storyboard

I forgot who was doing what. But I am doing the first 8 frames, and the last 4 frames. I will be doing the assets for Alice (walk, croquet, dodge, sleeping) + jabberwocky, humpty dumpty, white rabbit. If you need help with some of the animations (like bandersnatch) just email me asap. Please put your responsibilities on the Blog, and the storyboard + animatic is really for transitions and flow purpose please feel free to creatively control the timing/animations for your sections. But please make sure it works in transition between your stuff and other people. And make sure you can finish on time, if you can't do something try to cut corners or contact me or others for help.

Minimalistic animated elements reference

http://youtu.be/KcmM7Jh2Y3k

that is the link to Homer Simpsons Mad Men parody. It's basically a minimal homer simpsons over complex backgrounds. so combining minimalistic elements with other more detailed elements will be fine too. The one disadvantage for minimalistic elements is that the audience need to know the subject to really get it. But since we will have a clear indications through the intro and text telling the audience this is Alice in Wonderland, they will know enough to appreciate the silhouettes.

Illustration style guide

For my illustrations I am going with minimalistic style.
And here is something not alice in wonderland but very good reference for what I want to do. Style has very minimal shading, and details (since we are doing silhouette of some creatures anyway this will work with our timeline and scope)


The detail will be in the texture/color and animation of the creatures we want to animate. Becareful though, don't let the simplicity fool you, you need to know something well to simplify it to be recognizable using this minimalistic style. You control this by the color choice(ie. Alice is know be a blond with a blue dress + the white apron), what you emphasis(shape of shadow) and the contour of the creature/environment/object

Brandon's Thumbnails

Flow Chart

General Idea

Using a Parchment/textured paper, have a path move around an area, meeting the various creatures as it goes. Names of the creatures will be "written down" on the page, and the path will continue.

We're putting concepts together separately, and deciding which pieces will fit together as the best possible idea.

Creature List

These creatures will be the one mainly focused on during the animation.

Pat:

1. King of Hearts
2. Mock Turtle
3. Bandersnatch
4. Chess Pieces
5. Red King
6. White Queen

Jason:

1. White Rabbit
2. Humpty Dumpty
3. Jabberwocky

Ian:

1. Knave of Hearts
2. Gryphon
3. Red Queen
4. Smokin' Caterpillar

Brandon:

1. Chesire Cat
2. Mad Hatter
3. Rocking Horse Fly
4. Snap Dragonfly
5. Bread'n'Butter Fly

*Creatures in bold will be modeled in 3d.


Creatures will be made in a cartoony, bright style.