Walk animation

Panning shot

The art of...

the art of

Script

Script.

Act.1

A body is seen in a bland looking morgue. After the camera finish zooming in on the table, a man get up from the table and sits on it. The body however stays in the same position. After a brief moment of sitting still, the magician turn around and check who is lying under the cover. To his surprise he discovers that it is him, and he jump on the floor with a scared look on his face.

Act.2

A tall man in a clothes resembling butler's appear in front of the magician and points a mysterious door which appeared together with the butler. The gate is made of shining cards, which are tangled with blue lights. The magician prefers to go through the door than to stay inside the morgue. The camera pan to reveal a stage, jury and a rival in a contest. The magician is sure of his victory, and start to walk confidently towards the stage.

The contest begins and both of the magicians perform the same tricks but with different outcome.

Act.3

It is revealed that Mark's rival is better in magic and he wins the helium balloon statue. Mark is disappointed in himself.

Character design

Character design process: Mark.

Butler.

Jury.

Storyboard

Storyboard

Psycho Review

Psycho Review

Animatic

Influence map

Tintin and Maja the bee - both my favourite cartoons from childhood. 

Character sheets

Rope review

Rope Review

OGR

Storytelling Ogr

Idea

The magician is a murderer, he's trying to dispose the body. He flies using helium balloons to the morgue and runs away/ gets caught.

Story ideas

Magician has a wife, who is dying in the hospital. To save her he is collecting dead bodies from a morgue. After he's done with the extending her life he gives her a helium balloon.

An illusionist come home from work. Then we discover that he's a real magician. He sits on the sofa and he creates a helium balloons to make the glass fill with alcohol and float to him.

A dead magician is seen in a morgue. Then the action go backward / flashback to the beginning of the story. Magician was doing experiments, one of the failed and he got ice on the floor. When he was trying to get his balance he knocked the helium balloon from his earlier experiment free. The balloon burst on the nail on the ceiling and covered the face of the magician making him unable to breath. He fallen down knocking down some bottles with strange liquids and hits the floor loosing consciousness. Then everything explodes. Then we see a hand playing barrel organ, the camera zoom out and we see that everything was just a show on a barrel organ (modified one, which could show a cell drawn animation on top). The audience stays silent.

Bouncing balls

Each time I was trying to save a video on Maya I got a corrupted file, so I rendered each frame separately and did the animation in photoshop.

Unit 4 introduction