Thursday, January 17, 2013
All the written pieces to makes this film
Duberlord vs the Ice Cream Bandit
Story by
Forrest Norris
Tagline/ logline: “You
like ice cream? So does he.”
Duberlord and the Ice Cream Bandit
Story by Forrest Norris
9/12/2012
CONCEPT
This is a whacky comedy about
kindergarteners fighting over an ice-cream cone. Animation style inspired by Ren and Stimpy, concept influenced by Rugrats, Kids Next Door and Recess.
THEME
Stealing leads to unfortunate
consequences.
CHARACTERS
Duberlord/Daniel Simmons (Protagonist) – a six-year-old
“superhero” of the playground protecting his friends from “evil forces.” He
wears a cape to indicate his “superhero” status and a mask with a crown emblem
on it that indicates that he is a “lord” in a playground feudal system.
Duberlord has skill with using a yo-yo as a weapon and his cape as a shield.
The Ice Cream Bandit/Felix Pepin (Antagonist) – a
six-year-old French boy that is addicted to all ice cream products. He is
extremely insane when ice cream is present and will not stop until ice cream is
had. Weakness: broccoli
SYNOPSIS
As Duberlord walks home he passes
by Felix Pepin aka The Ice Cream Bandit.
He attracts his attention with his ice cream, which results with a struggle
after Felix snatches up the ice cream from Duberlord.
During the fight Duberlord
becomes pinned up against a wall with nowhere to run, as Felix closes in. Before
Felix can swoop in and re-take the ice cream, Duberlord pulls out a piece of
broccoli and stuffs it into Felix’s nose.
Felix freaks out and runs off
trying get it out of his nose. Duberlord watches Felix run into the distance.
Duberlord and the Ice Cream Bandit
Action List
1.
Duberlord is walking home eating his ice cream
and decides to take a short cut through an ally.
2.
Felix Pepin pops his head out of a garbage can sniffing
the air, turning his head, grinning. He jumps out of the garbage can and slowly
prances towards him.
3.
He sneaks up behind Duberlord and snatches the
ice cream.
4.
Duberlord wonders where his ice cream is. He
sees Felix.
5.
Felix goes in for the lick.
6.
Duberlord pulls out a yo-yo lassoing in his ice
cream.
7.
Felix takes a lick, but misses.
8.
Felix turns, watching Duberlord run away.
9.
Felix casually prances towards Duberlord.
10. A
tall fence stops Duberlord.
11. Felix
stops and slowly moves in.
12. Duberlord
goes into his pocket and pulls something out.
13. Felix
freaks out and runs off after broccoli goes into his nose.
14. Duberlord
lets out a sigh of relief as Felix runs off into the distance.
15. Credits.
16. Duberlord
goes to lick he ice cream, but notices that it has fallen onto the ground. Face
palm.
References for Duberlord vs the Ice Cream Bandit
Television shows that
inspired the film:
Rugrats
Kids Next Door
Ed, Edd, & Eddy
Recess
Rocko’s Modern Life
Television shows that
influenced the backgrounds:
Recess and Ed, Edd, & Eddy (color scheme)
Rocko’s Modern Life (background style)
Animation Influences:
Ed, Edd, & Eddy
Rocko’s Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Hotel Transylvania
Like in Ren and Stimpy
there will a still frame of a highly/grossly rendered painting of a close up
during an intense character moment.
Sound:
Each character would have different theme music
Sound/music will help to articulate movements and set moods
or setup different scenes.
Story:
Story is about children wanting something that belongs to
someone else and that they would steal in order to obtain that certain
something.
The story style will be shown as a comedy. Characters will
be able to warp form and usually be off model, but brought back to model. Characters with jump into quick poses and
have “slow” comical setups to intensify the following action.
You will see the hero become weak and “small” compared to
the villain giving the feeling of lost hope. Victory will come through odd
antics.
Notes:
Character design is influenced by, The Fairly Odd Parents’s Timmy Turner, Ed, Edd, and Eddy’s Ed and Johnny, and The Rugrats.
Duberlord is based off Tommy Pickles from The Rugrats and TJ from Recess.
The Ice Cream Bandit is based off Johnny from Ed, Edd, and
Eddy, Crocker from The Fairly Odd
Parents, and Him from The Powerpuff
Girls.
Duberlord’s real name is Daniel Simmons.
The Ice Cream Bandits real name is Felix Pepin.
The Duberlord universe is about a playground feudal
system/superhero based world.
Materials and Techniques Research
Process for Animation: In Order
·
Thumbnail storyboards on paper
·
Scan them into computer and throw them into
Photoshop
·
Clean up storyboard thumbnails in Photoshop
·
Import storyboards into Flash
·
Place boards in order and play around with
timing
·
Re-watch animatic (in Flash) several times to
get a rough/decent final animatic
·
Use storyboards in Flash as templates to do the
animation over
·
Animate the keys
·
Animate breakdowns or redo keys
·
Animate in betweens
·
Have a rough animation
·
Work out timing
·
Clean up roughs to tell what they are
·
Clean up line using pencil tool in Flash
·
Paint frames with brush and paint bucket tools
in Flash
·
Clean up backgrounds using pencil and brush
tools
·
Color backgrounds with brush and paint bucket
tools
·
Make sure everything is working for the
animation
·
Convert animation to png or jpeg sequence in
Flash
·
Import sequence into After Effects
·
Export from AE in .mov or other video format
·
Add sound and music sync in Soundtrack Pro
·
Export another .mov or place sound in After
Effects from previous step
·
Done with scene
Notes:
Rough animation will be worked on first.
Once a majority of the roughs are done then some of the roughs can be started
to be fine lined.
In Flash the layers (in order):
o notes
o audio
o character
fine line
o character
color
o character
roughs
o secondary
action fine line
o secondary
actions color
o secondary
actions or still parts
o background
fine line
o background
color
o background
roughs
o storyboards
In a finished version there would be no
roughs, storyboards, audio or notes.
o character
fine line
o character
color
o secondary
action fine line
o secondary
actions color
o background
fine line
o background
color
Symbols will be made in flash if necessary, i.e. background movements
or specific object movements.
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