Storyboard Heroes

JRG2013 Pitches

2012-02-16T12:03:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

This information will help you develop a pitch for JRG2013. I've linked two documents below. One is a description from the client of what they'd like to emphasize in the film. The other is the overall description of the Junior Giants Program, from the client.

Junior Giants Video Overview
Junior Giants Program Overview

Please note that the most important thing to them is their "Bases of Characteristics", and story tends to come second. Here are some things to think about when constructing the pitch.

The piece should still use the same four existing characters from the previous JRG projects (Mikey, Luisa, Brad and Vince).
The piece should have a run time of no longer than 6 minutes (AKA Don't think feature, think short).
Remember, we aren't a full-fledged studio. We don't have an exhaustive amount of resources. Your story shouldn't be the next Avatar.
Your pitch should be no longer than 5 minutes, and shouldn't be more than a page of synopsis. It's just an idea and rough layout at this point.
The client is very visual; They like to see things. Sketches of major plot points / new characters before you come in would be a good idea...

I'm also including the final video from 2010 (Not the greatest piece of work) and the animatic from 2012 (soon to be a work of art!).

Junior Giants 2010 Completed Video
Junior Giants 2012 Animatic

All pitches are due this Monday, February 20 for review from Chris Armstrong and Shaun. Mark Droste, the Director of JRG2012 and myself are also available to give feedback. The Client Presentation will be on Wednesday, February 22, at 10:30 AM.

Remember, keep it short and simple. They don't want to see storyboards or animatics. They want a synopsis of your story idea and maybe a few sketches. They'll develop the script they like with the writer.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing your ideas!

Niquolas Lagleva

2012-02-15T13:14:00.002-08:00

Hopefully Shaun you got my email, won't be able to make it into class because of another group project.

Calling in sick

2012-02-14T23:20:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone. Richard here. If I'm not in class by the time you read this, it means that I'm too sick to be there. It also means that I wasn't able to finalize my roughs. However, what I can do is post all of my roughs here from beginning to end. The first half you will recognize from last week, and the second half are ones I roughed out with your notes in mind. I'll have the finals done once I'm feeling well, which hopefully should be a couple more days.

I did manage to pull out two finalized boards before getting really ill though, so you're more than welcome to comment about them:

I hope you will all understand. Thanks very much!

Xandra from NeverSleep - Roughs and Reworked Boards

2012-02-13T23:42:00.000-08:00

I know this is a bit late, but it was a bit of a hectic weekend. Anyway, here are the roughs that you wanted to see as well as the revised storyboards. I tried to vary the shots with medium and long shots instead of having close ups all the time. I hope it worked out a bit better this time around. I also added in a simple background. I thought they'd be playing in a park kind of field instead of an actual stadium, thus the trees and bushes.

Word of Advice.

2012-02-13T11:06:00.000-08:00

Hey all~! Many thanks to those of you who have uploaded over the weekend. Great practice!

I would just like to explain a little bit about the nature of my critique. I know I'm coming down on you HARD. As one of the last Storyboarding classes for many of you, this class is on a par with, say the PIXAR classes for the Animators. It is your last official chance to study, improve and examine industry standards while in the comfort of school.

I owe it to you to ensure that you all improve during the course of the next 13 weeks. This may not be easy for you to read or indeed, initially act upon. But I promise that with thorough dedication that it will become that way.

In order for you to succeed then you need to respond with courtesy, react with precision and realize that this it is always about necessary improvement~!

Just wanted to throw that out there... All the best,

Feathers

Hey Everybody

2012-02-12T18:26:00.000-08:00

I've made a sketch up model of the ballpark complete with stands, dugout, concession stand, a couple of trees, yard, road and minivan. I'm using it to work out camera, take snapshots for background compositions. If anyone wants the file email me at jc@littlelizardproductions.com and I'll send it to you, of course you'll also need to download sketch up (its free from google). I recommend the first tutorial at the outset just to get navigation down. From there once you have your camera in place you can under Camera choose Field of View and drag up or down on the image to change the "focal length" of your camera.

Re-worked boards

2012-02-12T10:29:00.000-08:00

Worked on all he stuff said during class, trying to get more on model, cleaned up my line-work, and showed more of a silhouette for the tongue wagging.

BTW, anyone know of an easy way to get the boards to show up in order on the blog? every time i upload images it shuffles them around in a completely random order, extremely frustrating trying to get them back in order manually.

New Roughs

2012-02-08T22:03:00.000-08:00

Hey all, I threw these together pretty quick and wanted to ask if these worked more towards what was said in the critique. If so, I can start building off of these right away.

Reposting

2012-02-08T19:17:00.000-08:00

Intro

2012-02-08T19:08:00.000-08:00

Ok, I added but it can easily be spliced out

Hey dudes and Shaun!

2012-02-08T16:39:00.001-08:00

I'm finally home frm the Dr and getting my files together, just gotta quick walk my dogs and I'll be right there!

Rage Brigade - Niq Lagleva: Ending

2012-02-08T03:27:00.000-08:00

Mike's Boards

2012-02-08T02:29:00.000-08:00

Like I said last week, I can not attend class this week, so in addition to emailing my boards to my team-members, I'm posting a link to them here, just to be safe. Mike Hoffman's Storyboards for Team Abraham Lincoln.

Question on aspect ratios for PS

2012-02-07T15:12:00.000-08:00

I noticed that photoshop has an option for formatting the canvas in screen formats like NTSC, NTSC Widescreen, etc. What's the standard aspect ratio for this class?

Davin from Team Abraham

2012-02-05T01:12:00.000-08:00

Some sketches of the characters and some of my scenes. Work'n out the action shots right now.

Gonna try and get some time on the cintiq's asap. Anyone know if they lab is open on Sundays? Pretty sure they weren't last year... which was pretty lame.

On a side note, before I get into the actual boards, how is everyone orienting the field layout? If I were at the bating box, would the Junior Giants be on the left or right? My initial thought was JG on left, aliens on right, and at least from looking at Erics thumbnails he seems to have gone that direction.

Angela from Rage Brigade.. rawr.

2012-02-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

I probably did this COMPLETELY wrong.

These are the thumbnails for the first part of Rage Brigade's part. From 'Cut to Mikey in the dugout..' to Coach saying '...show them what we're all about'.

Dr. Girlfriend thumbs pass two version 1

2012-02-03T17:10:00.000-08:00

worked in a bit at the beginning where Mikey forgoes junk food in favor of an apple.

Xandra of Never Sleep

2012-02-03T14:42:00.000-08:00

Sorry for being a bit late, but I spent the last 45 minutes trying to figure out how to post these on the blog since this is my first time using Blogger. Not too sure if I did these right...

Hey there. Rusty from Never sleep Productions

2012-02-03T14:41:00.001-08:00

Hey all, here's the big edit I was talking about in terms of getting better scans. Hopefully these are much better than that last batch.

Jaime from Dr. Girlfriend

2012-02-03T14:17:00.000-08:00

Or is it Dr. Mrs. The Monarch? I haven't finished season four yet. These are very rough thumbs. Very rough. I see where I'm going in them, but it might be more difficult for you to. I will post thumbs pass 2 later today

Richard from NeverSleep with thumbs

2012-02-03T14:00:00.000-08:00

Hi guys. Richard Jao here and I'm dropping some storyboard thumbs here as well. I'll be following suit with posting images directly unless I'm told otherwise. I'm also practicing using a Cintique for these, so excuse the roughness.

More Abraham Thumbs

2012-02-03T11:35:00.000-08:00

Mike of the Abraham Lincolns here with an assortment of my thumbnails and practice sketches for the characters. They're not in any particular order as I wanted to draw out specific scenes as inspiration or difficulty hit.

Like Eric said in his post, not 100% sure I'm doing this right, but if I wasn't supposed to post these (and the soon to be following) images here, then just yell at me I suppose, haha.

Thumbnails

2012-02-03T10:44:00.001-08:00

It's Eric from team Abraham Lincoln reporting in, a.k.a The Abraham Lincolns, a.k.a The Honest Abes, a.k.a Lincoln Logs.

Mike and I sent some email's back and forth wondering if we were supposed to post the thumbnails here today, and i think yes. So this is what I have right now.More or less my whole chunk of the sequence. If I wasn't supposed to put this here then yell at me in the comments I guess.

Question

2012-02-03T01:33:00.000-08:00

For thumbnails, must the naming convention be adhered to? I'm sort of putting several on the same document, do you want them separated and whatnot, or can we be more free form as we are working out the details of number of shots/frames, etc.?

Welcome!

2012-02-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!

I'm looking forward to working with all of you throughout the semester! This is my roster as of February 1st...

Kim Ewing
Jaime Chavez
Tom Horstmann
Xandra Zapanta
~~Randy~~ Rusty Jackson
Richard Jao
Mike Hoffman
Eric Balison
Davin Ergun
Angela Ahlers
Niq Lagleva
Otilio Lopez

Please correct me if I've gotten any of this wrong!

Here are the naming conventions for the 2012 Pass -

JRG2012_STORY_SQ[SEQUENCE NUMBER]_S[SHOT NUMBER]_F[FRAME NUMBER]_V[VERSION]_[YOUR FIRST INITIAL AND LAST NAME].psd

So, if I were doing Sequence 001, Shot 023, and I was on Frame 005, and this was my second pass, my naming convention would like like this...

JRG2012_STORY_SQ001_S023_F005_V002_AWOOD.psd

TEAM 1: DOCTOR GIRLFRIEND -
Your block is of the script Sequence 001. It's the start of the script up until the third page after the first paragraph. The last sentence of your block is "BRAD turns around wide eyed:"

TEAM 2: NEVER SLEEP PRODUCTIONS -
Your block of the script is Sequence 002. It stars on the third page with the line "BRAD: What'd you say to me?!". It ends on the fourth page, after the player read labeled "***INSERT SF GIANTS READ ON TEAMWORK*** (As VINCE pulls out Teamwork card)."

TEAM 3: ABRAHAM LINCOLNS -
Your block of the script is Sequence 003. It starts on the fourth page. The first line is "The next Alien comes up to bat and hits a wicked grounder between first and second base." It ends on the sixth page, after the first paragraph. The last sentence of the block is "She gets a piece of it and runs for a single."

TEAM 4: RAGE BRIGADE -
Your block of the script is Sequence 004. The first sentence of your line is "Cut to MIKEY in the dugout while LUISA runs through first" on the sixth page. I know Shaun discussed shortening the final block for you, so I refer to him on the end point of your block.

If you could kindly check-in by just adding a comment letting Shaun and I know that you've read this post!

Thanks guys! I'm looking forward to a fun and productive semester!

- Andy

THIS IS A MANDATORY CHECK-IN POST. PLEASE COMMENT ON THIS POST TO INDICATE YOU'VE READ IT.

Meeting over the summer

2011-06-24T16:53:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I was just wondering if we're going to meet over the summer? I hope everyone is enjoying their summer ^^.

You wanna go to Ball Game?

2011-05-18T13:21:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, so as a reward for all your hard-work with the Junior Giants project. We have a treat for... We have free tickets for the game against the Florida Marlins next Tuesday~!

Tuesday 24th May at 7.15pm.

Get back to me before noon tomorrow and stop by to pick up your tickets~!

Alternatively you can reserve one ahead of time and meet up with Producer Andy next week.

(just another why going back to England next week sucks~!)

All the best,
Shaun

Grass_v01

2011-05-11T20:32:00.000-07:00

here's the first pass for Grass

http://www.mediafire.com/?r9cq36i1z9th1j1

i haven't made changes to it yet but will soon!

-Andrew

Live Action First Pass: Class Feedback~!

2011-05-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

Grass: Obviously missing our dear Steph's boards. :(

Andrew: An immediate impact~! Fantastic rendering and visual style with lots of dramatic depth and darker aesthetic. Your drawing of the actors involved in the piece are consistently well done, although several of the actors are a little difficult to identify and, lets face it sex! Try to add a little more depth into the transitions - very well done BTW - by varying the tilt on the subsequent reveal shots. Great expression with the characters but remember to keep it together and not key frame. Major beats in the script dictate the amount of shots to use.

Chris: Remember the dimensions stuff we were talking about~! I know it's a different discipline to the animation work you do but by simply adhering to classical realistic dimensions you're ensuring the industry looks at you as a diverse talent. Know, very important to remember the order of play with the dialogue scene - I wasn't joking when I said that the diner scene would be my worse nightmare, but it would also be an interesting challenge. I wish I'd have taken a few pics of that chicken scratch I did on the board - hopefully you remember it~! The important thing is that you try, just as I did to divide up the space with the diner counter. Creating as vivid a visual trick as possible by putting as much negative space between the two. They're at complete odds with each other, echo that through the most creative use of staging as possible. Don't worry too much about capturing the performance of the actors too much, rather keep it sketchy and turn your attention to the essential staging and layout of the scene.

Fourth Down:
Thanh: Your rendering style is nice Thanh, keep it loose and feel free to add more bold contrast if you find it keeps the noodling to a minimum! You've got a really interesting start here but try to push yourself and achieve greater things with the staging and the shots. The low reverse angle stuff works great but there's a lot missing. The scene between the Doc and the Mother also lack an energy, remember the sketches I made on 'screen superiority'.

Davin: Again, you're showing some real promise with this assignment. I honestly don't see too much of a problem in moving away from the shot breakdown provided of course you get something that works better in the long run. You've got some really great shots, for example the razor shot - needs tilting and pushing, and the shuffling feet low angle. Awesome. Some of your best Story thinking~! Just make a means to follow through withe the linking shots and you'll do great. Also get back on the CINTIQ and out of the coalmine! :)

Brian: Well, you know I'm expecting better. You have a really interesting portion of the script to contend with Bri. It's a turnaround for Bobby and pivotal to the character. Follow through with some more considered thinking and post up soon.

Hope this is easy to understand guys, let's really push that work into the portfolio in the next week.

Shaun

Sorry

2011-05-10T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. Rusty here. I have been hit with some kind of flu or something hard, so I wont be in today. Also, I wasnt able to make it to the labs recently so all I have are these rough and unfinished pencils for my storyboard project. I am very sorry for all of this. Also, if someone could please leave me a message in the comments or something regarding not only what is due next week, but anything you might need me to do with these boards (finish them, redraw them digitally, anything) please let me know. Once again, I am sorry to both my team and the director. I will see you all next week.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xnl0jq5de7mdl2d

Forgotten Cast Member for GRASS

2011-05-09T12:34:00.000-07:00

and Dennis Quaid: as the dad

thanks for the correction steph.

Rieser out. and boarding....

GRASS!

2011-05-06T11:28:00.000-07:00

so here is the cast of characters that we decided on for grass. im pretty sure i have this right, let me know if there are any people im missing.

Nicky: Jared Leto

Veeno: Ellen Page

Jackie Jax: Tony Cox

and last but not least...

Detective Harris: Mr. Samuel L. Jackson

The goons in the beginning are wearing masks. and only andrew has that part with them in it. and the pot smokers i think should be the trio from "twilight" 2 guys and a girl? let me know if that works for you Steph.

just in case, here is a reference photo for those pesky pot

smokers sitting on the car in the flash back:

you cant get more "stonier" than this... just look at them!

THIS IS CHRIS RIESER, SIGNING OFF.....CHCHCHCHCHCHSSHSHSSHSH.....OVER AND OUT....CHCHCHSHSHSH.

"4th Down" Casting

2011-05-04T01:21:00.001-07:00

For the most part we aimed for distinct faces with easy-to-grasp likenesses.

It came to my attention that the first nurse in the cancer ward was NOT indicated as 'senior rank'. So I moved actress Chandra Wilson, and bumped up Catherine Heigl. Also the cancer ward basically became a 90's kids movie reunion, in case anyone was wondering.

-Brian

Keanu Reeves as "Bobby"

Deborah Winger as "Bobby's Mother"

Justin Chambers as "Travis"

Ken Jenkins as "Dr. Irvin"

Tim Meadows as "Leroy"

Katherine Heigl as "Nurse Susan"

Other Nurses (Chandra Wilson & Chyler Leigh)

Mcaulay Culkin as "Ben"

The Olsen Twins and the Sandlot boys as the extra cancer patients.

Shot 31

2011-04-30T18:12:00.001-07:00

Here ya go,

http://www.mediafire.com/?bgy7uc214lrcd5x

Floats UPDATE

2011-04-29T23:39:00.000-07:00

here's my updated version of Floats

http://www.mediafire.com/?k9qls21hwx28p5p

New Parts (54-64)

2011-04-29T10:26:00.000-07:00

This folder includes the dome-cracking idea, plus a segment where the guards are blinded by Cheeba's glow.

http://www.mediafire.com/?q9m8vl7vrmo7tkz

-Brian

Good Morning as well

2011-04-29T07:08:00.001-07:00

Here is my board,

http://www.mediafire.com/?o645lsxwphl4o7n

-Thanh

GOOD MORNING!

2011-04-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

Now you don't have to feel bad huh Jaime?

I tried to make up for lost time but it still wasn't enough. I'm definitely going to do more with the backgrounds for Tuesday's class but this is what I have for now. Cheers!

floats_storyboards_shovden.rar

I'm going to sleep now.

HEY

2011-04-29T04:46:00.001-07:00

True to form, submitting at stupid o'clock.

http://www.mediafire.com/?286k11r1y2y1rzs

HEY YA'LL!

2011-04-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

I know its late, but here are my boards, did what i could with the change in background, and change in character design of "cheeba" with her hoody down. thanks a lot Thanh! jeez. anyway, here they are, and i hope you enjoy, i plan on inserting another couple of key frames of an up shot looking up at our heroes from the cat walk dealie. but due to loss of time, i was unable to put that in for this version of the boards, since we have to post tonight. but they will be in there for Ugene and myself for spring show. i'll definitely have the shot for tuesday.

heres the link to mediafire, its a zip.

http://www.mediafire.com/?a1s35ffo2m0wevl

there ya'll goooo

Floats

2011-04-28T22:24:00.000-07:00

This is Rusty. Here's the final version of my boards. I will also post them in the comments of Andy's last post too just to cover my bases.

http://www.mediafire.com/?x67zmr991tc39ff

Shot 31 - Shrinking Hallway Update

2011-04-27T17:14:00.001-07:00

Work'n the sequence of the shrinking hallway, just need to finalize steph's boards and it should be good.

Shrinking Hallway

2011-04-26T14:59:00.000-07:00

Just digitized some shots from the shrinking hallway

Floats: Stephanie H. Update

2011-04-26T13:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?v2d637zmuwad3bo

Here are my boards in a zip and two jpegs from the ending.

Andrew Han Floats UPDATE

2011-04-25T21:37:00.000-07:00

Andrew here!

I've uploaded Floats with updates

http://www.mediafire.com/?slbyn5hgdh57wo7

Floats_Storyboards_BSydnor

2011-04-25T11:10:00.000-07:00

These are the boards I presented last Tuesday. Sorry for the delay! I stopped checking up after I physically gave a copy to the director. Here they are for download purposes...

http://www.mediafire.com/?d1j8pkw8re9j4f4

Floats - Producer Andy Notes

2011-04-21T13:12:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

Shaun's notes are spot on to what I have written down. I'm just here to bore you with the logistics of getting all the shots uploaded here.

The process will go as follows...

All boards should be 960 X 540 pixels, 72 dpi (at minimum). Export as a high quality Jpg. Save the file with the following naming convention...

Floats_FirstIntialLastName_BoardNumber.jpg

Floats_AWood_001.jpg
Floats_SFeatherstone_025.jpg

Because we didn't give you defined shots, lets just have you number your boards one through however many boards you have. Take all of your boards and put them into a folder labelled...

Floats_Storyboards_FirstIntialLastName

Floats_Storyboards_AWood
Floats_Storyboards_SFeatherstone

After you've completed that, zip the folder, upload it onto the web (Somewhere where I can download it) and post a link in the comments of this blog post.

So far, I have not recieved boards from the folllowing (I will update this daily)...

Andrew Han
Rusty Jackson
Jaime Chavez
Eli Africa
Thanh Ma
Brian Syndor
Chris Rieser
Stephanie Hovden
Davin Ergun

Thanks guys! The boards look outstanding...

-Andy

New Update

2011-04-21T04:59:00.001-07:00

Hey, heres a newer version of my boards.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yyqacvlbb3vvl86

Jaime Floats

2011-04-20T04:27:00.000-07:00

So, here is what I finished as of this morning. I'll finish the rest tomorrow if I can.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xug4ajubwypmhoj

Story Meet - 19th April

2011-04-19T14:45:00.000-07:00

Hey gang, so the last pitch went rather well. And take it from me, I've seen a few versions of this project done by some really talented guys. You've all provided us with a much BETTER version of the story. It's much more understandable and engaging and more importantly exciting~!

So you have until next week to really shine with FLOATS. You could ALL use a greater understanding of drawing on model. That isn't me being a git and demanding unreasonable amounts of work from you - It's the INDUSTRY STANDARD~! You have to do this to survive in the biz. There are no excuses~! You either draw on model or you don't get paid. Many of the contracts you sign involve the clause that includes the proviso on 'Aesthetic Considerations'. That effectively means that the contract is null and void if you don't adhere to it!

Andrew:
-Introductory crawl is budgeted. YAY~!
-Lower angle on the conveyor belt. Push the flower coming toward us.
-Transition with the shredder doesn't work right now. Add a simple shot of the flower being sucked into the machine.
-Why does Stones get hit? Gesture to the idle shovel.
-Cut on the action as he flies across the room and pull back with the camera. Stones slides into the foreground.

Rusty:
- Please try and push your boards to the next level.
- Push your composition out of the flat into the 3/4 angles and skewed perspective.
- Characters more consistent.
- OTS to the POV doesn't work right now but could, indicate a shake with the camera.

Steph and Davin: Please post your boards ASAP~!

Jaime:
- Fade into your boards from black.
- Machinery coming to life may be lost. Budgetary reasons. RIP cool shot~:(
- More on-Model~!
- More tension and drama on the cuts.

Eli:
- Please try to convert your work to jpeg and adhere to Producer Andy's requirements.
- Push those poses from walk in the park to more intriguing danger poses.

Thanh:
- Try the vertical 180 as the characters run toward the camera, over and away
- Change the end shot to incorporate the atrium ahead.
- Where is the character's awe at the space.

Brian:
- Make more of Cheeba's powers and refine the pull back up to the cracking ceiling.

Chris:
- Keep the character's consistent and refine the guards more to keep them on model.
- Great ending as the characters sail away. Book end with the reverse of Andrew's opening crawl down.

Hope this helps~! You have until next Tuesday~:)

Well done and email when you post to the blog.
Shaun

2011-04-17T23:43:00.001-07:00

Made a few changes. Hopefully I can smooth it all out soon.

http://www.mediafire.com/?04sc4wf03ueybc9

Ok, nevermind

2011-04-17T19:03:00.001-07:00

It's here.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/xug4ajubwypmhoj/Archive.zip

So, I know I'm old and a luddite and everything...

2011-04-17T18:39:00.000-07:00

believe it or not I've never zipped anything before. I didn't realize it was as easy as right clicking a group of files. So, how do I upload a zipped file?

Andrew Han Floats UPDATE

2011-04-17T17:38:00.000-07:00

Andrew here!

I have uploaded Floats #1-16

There's some new things added to it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?p2h8ub1w989mg53

2011-04-17T16:11:00.001-07:00

I'll post the rest later tonight

Floats Size and Naming Convention

2011-04-16T09:44:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

I wanted to apologize about the slow upload on these. I've been without a working laptop for the last couple of days.

The size of each frame should be 960 X 540 pixels, 72 dpi (at minimum). Please just display the image... there shouldn't be a dialog box. Export as a high quality Jpg. Because I'm not sure the order in which Sean assigned you to scenes, please use the following naming convention...

Floats_Name_BoardNumber.jpg

Put all of your boards with the file naming convention in a folder labeled Floats_Name. Please zip that folder and upload here by tomorrow night. We don't need to see the updated boards, but if you have updated boards from Thursday, it couldn't hurt.

Please remind your fellow storyboarder's to do the same!

Thanks guys,

- Producer Andy

Machine Room

2011-04-15T23:06:00.000-07:00

Tuesday's Boards

2011-04-15T10:30:00.000-07:00

Storyboards from Tuesday

Rough Pass

2011-04-14T23:12:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Here are the boards I showed today and in class on Tuesday :)

Download at Mediafire

-Stephanie

2011-04-14T23:08:00.001-07:00

What I showed today.

http://www.mediafire.com/?pc7sabufh77vaxj

Andrew Han 1-16 jpegs

2011-04-14T20:58:00.000-07:00

Andrew Han here!

Floats 1-16 jpegs!

http://www.mediafire.com/?5j8srfrhxh1cw5d

Shot 31

2011-04-14T17:17:00.000-07:00

Re-worked the last bit of shot 31 where Stones and Cheeba barely make it through the shrinking hallway with a lower angle showing them running through the hall with cheebas foot barely making it. Let me know if you think it works. http://www.mediafire.com/?cg1s1baeucokjzz

Getting paid

2011-04-14T09:59:00.001-07:00

I found this on the drawn.ca blog. It's got great advice for any freelancer and worth the 30 mins to watch:

2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Floats: 20-31

2011-04-13T13:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?ychbg3vjbvbk1

Here's my boards for the other day, i'm gonna re-work the sliding under the door shot, The flower transformation shot, one or two things in the chase scene, and the very last shrinking hallway shot where her foot slips through

Andrew Han #1-16 Floats UPDATE

2011-04-12T18:33:00.000-07:00

Andrew Han here!

Floats #1-16 from class

http://www.mediafire.com/?bbb44jhv85d2mjs

Floats Ver. A Shots 1-21

2011-04-12T15:07:00.000-07:00

Rusty here. Here are my jpegs from class today. I will be making a few modifications for the version I will present on Thursday, but these are for everyone to have reference to my files.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z14i88ct8x93fqj

2011-04-12T11:25:00.000-07:00

Sorry Classmates and teams

Due to some personal issues, I won’t be able to attend today class, I am so sorry. If there is a meeting on Thursday I will try to make that one. Again I am very sorry.

I asked Brain to pitch my boards for today class so here is the link of the boards I have so far mind you some of the boards are still rough stage.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e259ksabtkfh4v5

I was suppose to do some overlapping with Eli’s board, but I don’t know his screen direction so I just went ahead and did my part of the board which is the “INT. FACTORY DARK HALLWAY,” from the script it seem like the director wanted a high and low shots so I tried to do both for my boards.

-I started off with a low angle shot of first the feets of the guard walking and then cut to the feets of Stone and Cheeba (wanted to show that she’s bare feet) running.

-Then a high angle shots of Stone and Cheeba running down the hallway and as each door they pass the gates shut.

- Chris’s board shows that Cheeba has her hoodie on and I know Andy said that they director wanted Cheeba to have her hoodie on until they float up the done, but….I felt like I wanted to do an alternative of when she takes her hoodie off. I thought a good time Cheeba takes her hoodie off is when they looks around the dome room.

- There the rest of boards are very similar to Chris’s rough board that was posted on this blog last week. I thought he did an awesome job with the close-up shot of the guard (That would scared anyone) and then another alternative for Chris’s board of showing the guard’s hand clench is having more than one guards hands clench and the hands are like the foreground while Stone and Cheeba is in the background center in fear.

I won’t LOVE to hear feedback for my board and PLEASE PLEASE keep me posted on what happen in class today and how is the boards going to be combine. Is there going to be a meeting on Thursday? THANK YOU SOO MUCH and I hope to hear from you guys soon.

-Thanh

New Floats

2011-04-09T04:44:00.000-07:00

Here's an update.

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?3d4seilaiaxx9qd

Try 2-Floats 33-49

2011-04-09T00:36:00.001-07:00

Here goes try #2 - and some really are scribbles!

http://www.mediafire.com/?qkkpce7qspmd8

thank you Stephanie

17-32

2011-04-08T23:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?np96u5ix4n768z5

Here is my progress guys. Sorry, as always, that most of it is so rough.

I've only gotten to about line 28 so far I'll be working on it for the next few hours before going to bed any feed back is much appreciated :)

Andrew Han #1-16 Floats

2011-04-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

Andrew Han here!

Here's #1-16 roughs of Floats

http://www.mediafire.com/?l1smija075npjc3

Floats Script Entries 33-49

2011-04-08T18:09:00.000-07:00

And Chris puts us all to shame. Good work Chris! This is as far as I'd gotten last night, up to the third panel of line 38, so I still have a ways to go. Working on it tonight. Wasn't able to post last night because I'd let my invitation expire and had to wait to be re-invited today. Kudos to Chris and shame to the rest (including me) of Team: Guild of Calamitous Intent!

anyway, heres the link

FLOATS: Model Pack

2011-04-08T14:26:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

I was having trouble opening the pptx file so I went through screencapping it with microsoft powerpoint viewer which took a long time but now I've got the whole model pack in jpegs. I thought I'd upload it since it seems some other people are having problems opening the file as well.

Model Pack

and the guard design for Chris.

I'll be posting my boards later today. I apologize to my group for not having something more to show last night.

-Stephanie

First pass of floats updated

2011-04-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

hello again. i just did some more boards, and i got up to shot 55. Got 10 more shots to do and roughly double that in boards. comments suggestions are welcome. i'de like to see the rest of my team's progress as well, even if its just scribble!

click the link to view boards on mediafire

Chris Rieser

http://www.mediafire.com/?mrjgn1pkloijl

NEED GAURD DESIGN PLEASE!

2011-04-08T10:02:00.000-07:00

hey everyone, i was just wondering if someone could post a jpeg of the guards character design for me to grab. i can't seem to get the powerpoint file to work on my computer, it just won't open.

if someone could help me out ASAP that would be gRRRRRRRReat.

Chris Rieser

"Floats" rough progress

2011-04-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

hey team, didn't get the chance to upload last night, here is my progress on the floats boards starting from shot 49. i find that i work better from home, so im going to work on it more this morning before i have work at 1. look forward to more boards and another post.

Chris Rieser

http://www.mediafire.com/?beldlljbbv28y

Floats' Hood and Hat Situation

2011-04-07T17:19:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I've infiltrated your blog. Beware! I heard that there was some confusion over Cheeba's hoodie and Stones' hat. This is what Gene had to say...

Stones' hat and Cheeba's hoodie come off in the Dead End Room when Stones and Cheeba begin to float up.
Both Stone's hat and Cheeba's hoodie can come off when the cloud or swirl of flowers gather around them. The gust of wind as the flowers swirl by can sell the falling off of the hat and hoodie.

Thanh, Gene mentioned he said something else during the class, but follow these perimeters instead.

Thank you again! If you have any questions, please feel free to call or email me.

-Producer Andy

Coach Character Design

2011-04-07T12:16:00.000-07:00

hey everyone, this message is really for Andy Wood, but i just thought i would address the story team for the project as well. this is a first pass at what the coach character design would look like. i did only the front view for now, before i proceed with the 5 point turn around. so if there is anything that needs to be changed, i'de like to do it first on this front view before all other views will be done. comments and suggestions if you have any please.

Chris Rieser

3/29 CLASS IS POSTPONED. SHAUN IS SICK.

2011-03-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, getting over a cold I picked up over Spring Break. Don't want to pass it on.

See you all next week~! Check the Downloads section for more on the new projects.

Shaun

CONGRATULATIONS~!

2011-03-22T14:00:00.001-07:00

YAY TEAMS~!!! You did it. Got the majority of the work reviewed and on model. Got your work in on time. Got a great reaction from the faculty and assorted crew~!

WELL DONE!!!

Now the real work begins. The storyboards went down GREAT. Mark pitched beautifully and creatively and brought your work to vivid life. We're moving toward animatic now in a bid to have the preprod wrapped by the end of the semester.

Although we are moving to new projects in the class I will be asking for the continued involvement of selected artists in providing revision boards for the animatic. This work will only happen in the next few weeks so we're all having a bit of a break form the project.

You deserve it~! I'll provide more specific details next week in class. For now, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL :D

Shaun

Camera Intro

2011-03-21T05:16:00.001-07:00

To avoid swapping all my boards I tried to do a camera move. If anyone could, it'd be great to get some feedback on it. I guess if no one is able to I'll go with my gut feeling on whether I should keep the camera move or just flip the boards.

Proposed camera intro

Thanks!

-Stephanie

IMPORTANT

2011-03-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

New Plan for Next Week~!

Hey guys, just wanted to make sure that we're all on the same page... So in light of the building being officially closed to students (Grrr) we're not expected to deliver an animatic on Tuesday~!

Rather you are expected to have ALL your boards drawn out in presentation quality and on model. Old drawings that don't work will not be accepted~! Use this time to your advantage and make sure that your work in up to scratch for the presentation on Tuesday. Steph and Chris are your respective leads for this final push of preproduction.

If in doubt. Post it. I'll be reviewing regularly tomorrow and Monday morning.

Please adhere to the guidelines from Producer Andy to the letter. We need jpegs only~!

Thank you ALL so much for going the extra mile with this project~!
Shaun

Notes from Basecamp

2011-03-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Just to make sure everyone sees and is aware of the producer and directors notes that have been posted on basecamp I'm going to post them here:

Older notes but possibly still applicable:

Obviously some things have already been dealt with and changes have happened in the script but it's never bad to review things that have been said especially by our director and producers

Message from Producer Andy...

2011-03-17T16:15:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

Here is the naming conventions for the storyboards. We need to have these done by Monday afternoon! Please upload all the Jpgs’ of your boards to Basecamp with the naming convention in a zipped folder with your name (I.E. “ChrisRieser.zip” or “EliAfrica.zip”). We need these by 8:00 PM on Monday, March 21st. That’s next week. Jesus and I are presenting these with Mark to the Directors of the Department next Tuesday.

If you have any questions, ask me!! We need to have these right!

JrGiants_[GroupNumber]_[ArtistNumber]_[Shot#]_[ArtistName].jpg

Group 1 is Steph’s All-Stars.

1: Steph
2: Brian
3: Andrew
4: Rusty

Group 2 is Team Venture.

1: Eli
2: Davin
3: Chris
4: Thanh

JPG Examples

JrGiants_1_3_11_AndrewHan.jpg

JrGiants_1_2_01_BrianSydnor.jpg

JrGiants_2_4_20_ThanhMa.jpg

Mikey Up to Plate

2011-03-16T18:32:00.000-07:00

Here are some re-worked boards from the beginning of Mikey comming up to plate.

SPRING BREAK - LAB IS CLOSED~!!!

2011-03-16T13:18:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, so I've just got official word on this from the Powers-that-be. Next week the building is closed~! Absolutely no exceptions to this.

That said, we have a deadline with the Junior Giants and I'm talking to Chris about the animatic deadline. We may have to review deliverables?

Meeting is still on tomorrow though and I'll have more for you then.

Shaun

Cartoony Construction

2011-03-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

As one of my more egotistical moves, I quickly scribbled together a rough construction page for both the giants and the aliens. Probably a mistake (there are better people for this), but it might help some folks.

The main point of this is to show the basic shape template one could modify to differentiate the characters. Helpful...?

Meeting on Thursday~!

2011-03-15T14:44:00.001-07:00

Hey gang,

Junior Giant's Animatic Meeting on Thursday at 2pm.

Room TBA

See you there~!
Shaun

Dailies - 15th March - Team Venture

2011-03-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

Eli:
Great use of Chris' boards.
Keep the action moving. Too many cuts.
The alien pitching machine is nicely done but it's too scary too soon.
The shadow as it forms need to be cut down.
Let the ball come to screen and create the cut - transition.
I think the side view and the frontal view are in need of work.
Don't fill the frame. You don't like negative space.
Keep Luisa in one shot.
Lose the pounding on the bars.

Davin:
You don't know the script. That shows a distinct lack of awareness in your work and the connection between the script. Get involved with the group! Your drawing is beyond rough, you've got to tighter up your style more...

Chris:
Great treatment of the Aliens. Daisy chain? Ask Director.
Excellent change in the reaction of the coach.
Great dialogue between Mikey and Coach.
The crash zoom in still works GREAT~!
The change in reaction for Mikey is good.
The gag with Aliens is extended but be clear about it and the distance between the ball and the characters.

Thanh:
The graphics with the food and the links with the characters are good.
The layout needs to be refined and the group together needs to be reviewed.
Make the kids hear the ship coming down from orbit and then cut on the action.
The aliens getting beamed up is fine, keep it simple.
The ending 'sunset shot' is in need of reviewing.
Lose the gate and the fencing.

GET TO IT~!

Dailies: 15th March - Team Steph

2011-03-15T12:30:00.000-07:00

Steph:
Great job with the set-up.
Get rid of the crossing characters.
Pitch with more confidence even when it's rough~!
Clean up skills and rendering are now essential.

Brian:
You haven't changed your boards too much. Again.
You can always make this more on model.
The gag with the giant bat was missing.
The Coach's close up was too scared.
Good reaction shot of the Giants.
Brad's fighting pose needs to go~!

Andrew:
Good Rendering.
Lower angle on the Big guy.
Rope gag - Needs to go? Sub with the Oversized cane. From left
How would the ball reaction to the Vibrobat?
Keep it low and fast through the scene.
Zig zag the ball through the shot.

Rusty:
Keep your characters in the model size comparison.
Good gameplay. Works really well.
Works well from a story telling.
Screen direction in the ball hitting.
Size of the alien is too short.
The gameplay works well.
Pull back from the action more...
Too tight on Luisa throwing the ball.
Draw to model but abbreviate.

GET TO IT~!

Insane Mode

2011-03-15T07:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some suggested sketches for the insane scene where the pitching machine shoots out 2 baseballs. I only show the machine transformation and didn't have time to include Chris's neat details of the alien on the mound reacting/doing his thing and the gun stretching/squashing before the baseballs shoot out, which we should keep.

Maybe for the last & final alien machine pitch, the second gun retracts back in and it goes into the "blinking target mode" before it fires again?

Luisa's on First

2011-03-14T05:10:00.000-07:00

Beam that transforms pitching machine

2011-03-14T03:10:00.000-07:00

Feedback from today meeting (3/10/11)

2011-03-10T20:32:00.000-08:00

I had a blast with today meeting with everyone and it was great to have some feedbacks from Mark and I think he's going to stop by on tue next week so get ready everyone.

I have some feedback to tell you guy about your boards (TEAM 2, GROUP VENTURE!!! GOO GROUP 2)and I think Shaun might do more follow-up later. Sorry, my recalling of feedbacks are more for group 2, but group 1 your boards were awesome and I would think Shaun and Rogernald would have better feedbacks for your group because they would understand alot more. I emailed you guy, but this is just like a double check.

Eli:

Mark LOVES the Alien eating the bat gag, it was great. The Alien pitching machine was great, but it's looks a bit too scary for normal mode with the thin eyebrows. Mark wanted the machine to be more goofy like the Alien. The concept with Liz running to first base and what you see is only her shadows and her team shadows in the dugout was nice, but Mark wants to zoom in Liz's face more (because it's like her moment) and what you can do is that you see Liz running to her base (not just shadow) and in the foreground you can see her teammate head cheering.

Chris:

You cover alot of ground and the gag with the aliens jaw dropping in the outfield was just funny as heck (I didn't see that coming at all, so it was cool dude). And I think Mark wants you to play out the belches Alien a bit more. He wants the Alien to looks really sad or just don't care at that point anymore because they are so stuff on junk food. So like when one of the Alien tell the other Alien to get the ball which is like next to him, he reach for it, but was sooo lazy that just give up and the ball is like a couple inches from him just drag that moment a bit more.

Can't wait to see the final work next week. Good luck everyone!!!!

-Thanh

Eli's Boards

2011-03-10T12:31:00.000-08:00

Hi again,

I noticed Eli uploaded his boards onto the gateway site. I don't know if anyone else saw them there but they were kind of hard to view so I downloaded them all and zipped them in a folder and uploaded them so we could have them here on the blog as well.

Eli's Boards

It is just a bunch of jpegs in a folder sorry for not putting them into a .pdf. I opened them in storyboard pro and they didn't open in sequence and I didn't want to put them in the wrong order.

Let me know if anyone has problems opening the .zip I could also make a .rar if that is easier.

-Stephanie

Page 1-2

2011-03-10T11:55:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry for not posting earlier but all morning I've frantically been looking for my flash drive with the updated files on it. Unfortunately I do not have it here but FORTUNATELY my boyfriend just called me back telling me it was in his car. So I'm reposting the altered intro I posted on Sunday (that we saw in class on Tuesday) because it's the most recent file I have.

Altered Intro

I have made revisions to it already (that were discussed in class) I just don't have it here to post :(. Sorry again Shaun. I will post later this week after cleaning up the shots and further editing.

-Stephanie

2011-03-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

Here are the storyboards from last class too. Just in case. These haven't had any real changes to them.

http://www.mediafire.com/?o9bywtrd994645o

Jr. Giants Part2 pg6

2011-03-10T08:55:00.000-08:00

Hey! Chris Rieser Here, I have edited and added to my boards since last class. I've edited out the catcher since there won't be one anymore, i've taken out one of the ball cams at the end so its not so redundant, and i've added the team of aliens laughing at Mikey, after the pitcher does. then i have a shot where the team of aliens look up at the pop fly that Mikey hits in aww. also i stuck in an extreme close up of both Mikey and the pitching machine to have the "High Noon" moment before the last pitch is fired. still some more stuff to do with MY part of the boards, minor things on my end i guess, but my group and i will have to pick up the pieces where Davin was absent, so we have a back up. to my understanding, and this is what we discussed in class, is that (ELI) your extra part bleeds from your part to end where coach says"you can count your fruit and veggie magnets on later." and (THANH) your part starts at "Mikey timidly grabs his bat and walks up to the coach." and your part ends at, "Mikey sort of laughs at himself." then i take it from there. this is more that just a class you guys, and we need to all step up and bring our "A" game to the table. go team VENTURE! AWAAAAAAY!

http://www.mediafire.com/?qowvhcfbaugv4zt

2011-03-10T05:14:00.000-08:00

Hey this is Thanh, I just want to show you guys what I have so far with the ending. I am still figuring out how I want to position the characters to make the dialogue in the end with Mike flow more.

I'm hoping to go to today meeting so I can explain my idea for the different panel, right now there is no caption and it's still in it's rough stage, but I just want to have something up for today for the meeting. I will post more finish work later on this week.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3743r3gwcc7dluv

2011-03-09T23:18:00.000-08:00

Andrew Han here. These are the latest boards, edited since last class so there is new stuff in it. This scene is from the 3rd page of the script right after Brian's

the characters are not all to model but i'm working on it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?4v909bxm49bdbeh

Storyboard Heroes

JRG2013 Pitches

Niquolas Lagleva

Calling in sick

Xandra from NeverSleep - Roughs and Reworked Boards

Word of Advice.

Hey Everybody

Re-worked boards

New Roughs

Reposting

Intro

Hey dudes and Shaun!

Rage Brigade - Niq Lagleva: Ending

Mike's Boards

Question on aspect ratios for PS

Davin from Team Abraham

Angela from Rage Brigade.. rawr.

Dr. Girlfriend thumbs pass two version 1

Xandra of Never Sleep

Hey there. Rusty from Never sleep Productions

Jaime from Dr. Girlfriend

Richard from NeverSleep with thumbs

More Abraham Thumbs

Thumbnails

Question

Welcome!

Meeting over the summer

You wanna go to Ball Game?

Grass_v01

Live Action First Pass: Class Feedback~!

Sorry

Forgotten Cast Member for GRASS

GRASS!

"4th Down" Casting

Shot 31

Floats UPDATE

New Parts (54-64)

Good Morning as well

GOOD MORNING!

HEY

HEY YA'LL!

Floats

Shot 31 - Shrinking Hallway Update

Shrinking Hallway

Floats: Stephanie H. Update

Andrew Han Floats UPDATE

Floats_Storyboards_BSydnor

Floats - Producer Andy Notes

New Update

Jaime Floats

Story Meet - 19th April

Ok, nevermind

So, I know I'm old and a luddite and everything...

Andrew Han Floats UPDATE

Floats Size and Naming Convention

Machine Room

Tuesday's Boards

Rough Pass

Andrew Han 1-16 jpegs

Shot 31

Getting paid

Floats: 20-31

Andrew Han #1-16 Floats UPDATE

Floats Ver. A Shots 1-21

New Floats

Try 2-Floats 33-49

17-32

Andrew Han #1-16 Floats

Floats Script Entries 33-49

FLOATS: Model Pack

First pass of floats updated

NEED GAURD DESIGN PLEASE!

"Floats" rough progress

Floats' Hood and Hat Situation

Coach Character Design

3/29 CLASS IS POSTPONED. SHAUN IS SICK.

CONGRATULATIONS~!

Camera Intro

***IMPORTANT***

Notes from Basecamp

IMPORTANT