Animatic

Beaver on Board
By Joel Rainor Venables

This is my animatic I made for Bens visual design class and got a HD. My first HD for this course and to make things even better my HD was a higher HD than James'. James Buckingham always beats me in grades by one every time.

-Joel

UT Importing

As I promised in my last blog, here is the beavers UNFINISHED textures.

It may get more detailed later on because it is pretty low quality, except for the eye.

The perspective view in 3Ds Max is shonkey and distorts textures so to see him textured properly I imported him into UT as a Static Mesh.

His scale is fairly good, I think I'm going to keep it as is. I have a screen shot of his standing next to a player static mesh for comparison here:

The beaver on the far left is 1.5 the regular size, the middle is his normal size and the right is .75 scale. The guy on the end, I'd like to say I modeled him but his there to give you a rough idea of how tall the pirate should be.
I might start a poll to get what you people think.

-Joel

Castor the Beaver

Here is the main antagonist of my piece, enjoy:


This is a SUPER low poly version of him.
This is also the version of him I'll be using in UT because I'll be using flat colours because mine is a cartoon animation. He is also low poly because I'll have to double his poly count co create my pseudo cel shading effect.


Here's his UVW map, lots of fun to unwrap :D
I seriously don't see why people hate it.



Here's an artistic render that Christian wanted.

Textures and Animatic coming REAL soon! Stay tuned.

And while I'm here here's a funny joke... =p
-What do you call a parrot that wont come back?
-Polly-gone

:D

Much love
-Joel

Cap'n Davy Sharkbait's Pantaloons

His not quite a pirate yet but it's a start.
So far it's just his pants. I'm still deciding whether he is gonna have a pot belly or wash board abs.


I'm having a little trouble doing his boot so I'll save it for later.

If I make more progress, of rather, when I make more progess on him today I'll edit this post rather make a new one.

-Joel

Edit: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here's his body, not quite a pot belly, not quite wash board abs. (How am I gonna do my washing now?)



Edit: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Instead of making his arms from his body I decided to make a jacket to go over him.

Once the jacket goes on him you wont be able to see the back so those pollys will be wasted so I deleted them.

And fianally here's him with his jacket on.

I think that's it for today, after all it is my day off... >:(

-Joel

Script

Yes yes, I know it's my third post for today, but I have to catch up and I got nothing better to do on my day off.

I've written a script for our Audio class that includes sound effects. I've re-done a lot of the dialogue.
Okay, it's been about a year since I've been on stage or read a script, so I kinda forgot the proper format for a script so I just made it up.

The characters name before a line means they are saying it.
If a line has a " - " in front of it, it's a stage direction.
And a line with "♪" at either end is a song or sound effect.
It's a little hard to read because it lost it's indents.

So here it is:

-Opening shot of the pirate ship.

♪Song: Some pirate, Nordic song. Maybe something like the ones in Peter Pan♪

Captain: Brody the Parrotless, front center. Where be mi crew?

1st Mate: They be below deck Cap'n.

Captain: Good, I don't want them t' hear this.

1st Mate: Is it bad Cap'n?

Captain: Aye, there be a Beaver on our ship, 'tis eatin' all our wood on deck.

1st Mate: ABANDON SHIP!

Captain: No, no, thar be no need t' go t' such drastic measures. I`ll take care o' 'im.

-Cut to the beaver who is standing next to the mast and twitches his head side to side to look
cute.

♪Song: Some relaxing music plays and makes him look innocent♪

-He jumps up onto the mast.

♪Sound effect: as he jumps up, the sound of a record scratching♪

-He spins around the mast like a cartoon.

♪Sound effect: chainsaw sound♪

-He falls back next to the mast and it starts to lean.

♪Sound effect: a slow cracking sound, almost like a floor boards or a falling tree, as it falls. Then when it hits the water a giant SPLOOSH can be heard♪

Captain: 'tis a quick one this, but thar`s no need t' panic. I`ll make short work o' him.Come here ya scurvy cur!

1st Mate: Mind yer wooden leg Cap'n

-Camera circles around the Captain and the Beaver.

♪Song: A western song plays, probably "The good, the bad, the ugly" song♪

-Close up of the Captain's eyes as two black stripes frame his eyes

♪Sound effect: a rattle snake sound plays♪

-Close up of the Captain's eyes as two black stripes frame his eyes

♪Sound effect: a cute beaver or squirrel sound plays♪

Captain: Yer doom be at hand, ye scrappy sea dog...

-They both run at each other and the beaver attaches itself to the Captains leg

♪Sound effect: chainsaw sound♪

Captain: I'll kill you an' feed ye t' the sharks, an' then send ye to Davy Jones' locker!

-The Captain pulls out his gun and aims it at the Beaver. He pulls back the hammer to cock it,
then pulls the trigger

♪Sound effect: gun cocking and shot fired♪

-The bullet ricochets off the deck and into the Captains foot

♪Sound effect: Old western sound of a bullet ricochet♪

Captain: ARGH! Ye lily-livered swine!

-the beaver jumps off the ship and into the water.

♪Sound effect: sound of a dive, or a medium sized water sploosh♪

Captain: To 'ell with ya, ye yellow-bellied bucko! Dasn't worry men, I may be hurt an' our boat be in pieces, but we still be havin' our skiffs.

1st Mate: but captain, termites ate our oars!

Captain: Nooooooooooooo!!!!

-Fades to black

Animatic pics

I know I shouldn't really post twice in the same day but an updates an update.
These probably wont make too much sense but take a gander anyways.

Story Boards

Wowzers! I'm like the last one to do a second post. I don't really have an excuse, I'm not really used to this whole bloggin' thing. But that's not to say I haven't been doing work.

So far I've done this:

- Story Boards
- More Castor Concepts (one pictured below)
- Re-drawn images for the animatic
- 3D Modeled Castor the Beaver
- UV unwrapped Castor

I can't quite show you all of the above because I don't have 3DsMax at home so I cant show you the model or the UV's but I do have the Story Boards scanned in, and soon the re-drawn images.

So without further adu, here's the boards.
To view them click the beavers butt.