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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.