Monthly Archives: May 2011

What’s happening?

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Hi!

As you have seen, I’ve posted a lot of new things on this blog in few hours… This is because  I decided to move part of the posts I created on another blog here.
The “other blog” is a website I created for my Developing for Animation module, you can find it just clicking on the link you see on the right column of this page (In Production) or by clicking [HERE] if you are too lazy to move your mouse ^^.

Because I don’t want to overcrowd with double posts this blog, I’ve just copied the topics that are about the Horror Story I’m working at the moment.
I hope I’ll post some new sequence enter this weekend and that I’ll finish the whole first storyboard in a couple of weeks…

So, see you soon, and, if anyone is reading this blog, let me know your opionion on my drawings, writings etc… I’m starting to get sad about this terrible audience absence…

Bye :)

Infographic Poster for Development for Animation

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Infographic poster I did for my final presentation. It’s been a long time since I wanted to create a typographic infoposter and I really enjoyed this process. :)

All the infos and quotes are taken from various books I referenced in a text line on the poster. I hope you like it… Tomorrow I’ll start to work again on the storyboards, so keep visiting this place!!!

Horror Story – Storyboard Sequence

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This is the first part of the storyboard. Unfortunately I overstimated my drawing skills and I spent too much time trying to find my style. Right now I’ve found it, but it’s too late for the deadline -.- On the other hand is just in time for my next projects, and probably for all the stories I uploaded here. It is a good starting point for a summer project, and to force myself to keep drawing and getting better and better :)

 

 

 

 

Sketches of the Myth Story

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Studies about the location and the characters that are supposed to appear in my myth/fantasy story. [it’s possible to click on any image to see a higher resolution image]


Dwarves mountain and watchtower.

Orc and goblin.

Dwarf studies 1

Dwarves weapons studies, and Troll boss portrait.

Fight scene composition. Goblin attacks dwarf.

Dwarf hammer attack.

Siege.

Dwarf frontal charge.

Sketches for the horror story

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The following images are scans from, my sketchpad, of thumbnails and sketches I drawn for the horror story. Few of them have been digital colored in order to get easeir to be understood. [It’s possible to click on any image in order to see a high resolution image]

Kid transformed in zombie.

Kid choking.

Storyboard of the first sequence. The misterious milkman.


First page of the last sequence storyboard. The man looks outside the window and discovers that zombies are everywhere.

Second page of the last sequence storyboard. The man sees her wife that now is a zombie and decides to kill himself.

Horror 2nd Setting and Break Down sequences for Storyboard

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Changes from previous treatment version:
during the breaking down and the sketching of the single scenes, the story has evolved in the following way:

Period: nowadays, the near future
Duration: one morning
Location: private housing estate
Levels of conflict: man against monster to the death
Drinking Scene Position: Poison in the milk, beginning

1 Subplot.

Climax: the hero discovers that his son is a zombie. He fight against his son, killing him. Then the hero looks out from a window and discovers that all the dwellers of the private housing estate where he lives have been transformed in to zombies. Also his wife, killed by their son, has turned into a zombie. She is moving forward to attack him. He brings his gun and shots to himself, before any monster could transform him in a monster.

Controlling Idea [Value (positive or negative) + Cause]: Negative (Hero loses his gamily and kills himself) + He finds a way to not get transformed, but it costs his life.

Breakdown for storyboard:

Unusual morning:

- A milkman is approaching a door’s house. It’s not possible to see his face. The atmosphere is unusual, the camera hides his face deliberately. Show Happy Milk logo [Is there something wrong?]

- The milkman deposits a letter and a bottle of milk on the main door step. Show Happy Milk Logo. No face shown [Introducing the milk in the story.]

- He walks away form the door. Again no face. It’s possible to see in the background other milkmen that are doing the same thing. No faces [Increase the sense that something is weird]

- Shot of the Happy Milk logo on a van. Sound of people entering in different cars. The Happy Milk vans caravan goes away from the housing estate. [again, unusual thing]

Dog sequence/subplot:

- A dog exits from the little door located on the low part of the house main door and sniffs the milk bottle. [Stimulates questions in the viewer, what will the dog do? Probably it will feel that there is something odd, animals have a sixth sense for danger]

- An accident happens and the bottle falls on the ground, breaking itself. The dog is scared. [anticipation]

- The dog again sniffs the milk. [If there is something wrong with the milk, now the pet will understand it]

- It drinks the milk and goes inside the door [so everything is normal, is it possible?]

Introducing the Family sequence:

- Woman enter in the kitchen room and places on the table the bottle of Happy Milk and an opened letter. [again the milk! There must be something about it!]

- Detail of the letter: “Dear friend you and your neighborhood have won a free trial of our new product, Happy Milk….” [so this is the reason of the milk/first answer]

- She starts preparing breakfast [is still morning]

- Detail of a night table. Over it there are a family group photo, (Dad, Mom -the same character that is cooking- and a kid) a policeman badge and an alarm clock. The clock starts to beep. [So there is a family in this story]

- The man in the photo stops the alarm clock. He smells the scent of the breakfast that is arriving form downstairs and smiles. [he is a happy man]

- Dad is sitting on his bed, he’s stretching. A shadow enters in the room and jumps over him, [there we are! There is something dangerous in this story!]

- From downstairs the woman calls for the breakfast [she doesn’t know what’s happening upstairs!]

- The shadow over the man is… his son! They are playing a fight. Mom calls again, they laugh and stops to fight. [ah, so there isn’t a real danger-it’s a really happy family… but the milk?]

Breakfast sequence:

- Dad and son are sitting at the table. Mum is serving. They talk together [happy family scene, empathy for the family]

notes:
*Mum caresses his son when she walks behind him.

*“Mum, I’ve almost beaten dad today in our fight!“, Dad answers “You still have to grow up…”
*The kid puts the cereals in his bowl, then tries to open the milk bottle. But it’s closed to tight.
*Dad notices the letters and reads it.
*They are eating. The kid is still fighting with the bottle.
*Dad takes the bottle and opens it. “See, you still have to improve before having any change against your dad”. They all laugh.
*Kid pours the milk in his bowl and glass.

Subplot 2 + End:

- A woman takes her keys form a basket on a table in the corridor. She is ready to exit from her house. [why are we changing subject? What’s going on?]

- She opens the door and sees the broken bottle [it’s the previous house!]

- She turns and says, smiling to the shadowy hallway. “What have you done here Rufus? You are a naughty pet, aren’t you?” [who is Rufus? Ah the dog that have broken the bottle…]

- A monstrous paw exits from the shadow. Growling sounds. [Is that Rufus??? The milk has something, I knew it!]

- Close up of the screaming face of the woman. Blood all over the walls [It’s dangerous here!]

What’s happening? sequence:

- The family ears the screaming woman. On the table the children glass of milk is empty [oh no, the kid drank the milk…]

- Dad is almost ready to go out and check [he is a cop, his work is to help the others, empathy level increases

- Kid collapses on the ground shaking, he is dribbling. [The viewer knows what happened to Rufus and now they know what will happen next. The family don’t know anything] (other screams from near houses)

- Mom tells to Dad to go to call 911. He exits form the kitchen. [She is alone with a monster, anxiety]

- Dad is composing the number when he hears a growling sound coming from the kitchen room and he can’t hear his wife voice anymore (she was saying “stay with me baby, everything will be alright” etc…) [viewer knows exactly what’s happened to her]

- Dad walks back and sees his son, now a zombie, eating his mom body. He is terrified. [The milk is dangerous, everyone is turning as a zombi…]

- He walks backward. He can’t move away his eyes from what’s happening [audience is with the cop and they start to ask to themselves if he is going to kill his son]

- The zombie notices his dad, and stares at him, ready to attack [preparation for the next scene, increasing tension]

- Walking backward, dad hits the front door with his back. He can escape… but the zombie charges him [Climax starting point]

- It’s just a matter of seconds. The man is a trained cop and instinctively takes out the gun and shoots against the zombie/his son. One of the bullets hit the monster between its eyes. It lies on the ground dead. [Climax]

- The man is sitting on the ground, his head between his hands. He can’t notice that the arm of his dead wife (it was possible to see it appearing form the opened kitchen door – man POV when he is crying sit in the corridor) is not on the ground anymore. [clue for the viewers, it’s not finished yet]

- Someone starts to hit the front door. The man stands up and sees a grotesque silhouette that is hitting the door with almost no strength. [what’s happening?]

- The man steps back form the door and runs in the living room. The curtains are closed. He moves one of them and looks outside. Zombies are everywhere, and some of them are trying to enter in his house [story twist].

- A shadow appears behind him. His wife! She is a zombie too now. [what’s going to do the hero in this context? He is completely under pressure. Now it’s possible to show his real character]

- The man turns just in time… and shoots another bullet (aerial view of the house) Zombies are chasing living people, the private housing estate looks like a urban guerrilla area. [what’s happened? Why we moved out form the living room?]

- The gun is smoking. The man hand is over it. Then blood enters in the frame. Full body shot. He killed himself [he killed himself to not become a zombie/he killed himself because he couldn’t stand to kill also his wife]

THE END

Horror 1st Treatment (with Ideas and Counter Ideas)

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A woman in a bathrobe opens the door and takes his bottle of Happy Milk. She goes to the kitchen and start preparing breakfast, singing (+)

Upstairs, the husband is awake but does not get up, he is enjoying the morning singing of his wife and the breakfast smell. On his bedside table there is a picture of him, his wife and his son in a theme park, A happy family (+).

A shadow jumps on the man, who is surprised and does not have time to move (-).

It’s his son (8 years old), who has just woken up and wanted to wake up his Daddy. The woman downstairs calls the two late sleepers: “Come here! Breakfast is almost ready!”. The two smile (+)
The family is eating breakfast. Coffee and toast for the father, mother as well, kid cereal and glass of milk, the father pours milk (opening the closed milk bottle -> this is one of the reason for the hero guilty feelings during the second half of the story). (+)

As they eat (drink scene) something happens, the baby starts foaming at the mouth, his eyes roll back. Mom moves over him, trying to understand what is going on. “He needs a doctor!” screams the husband, who runs in the living room where the telephone is. He takes the telephone handset, dials the number (911), but a scream from the kitchen stops him, the man turns white in the face and runs into the kitchen … (-)

His son is on his mother, on her neck. Sounds of chewing and blood everywhere.

The man recoils in shock and then runs upstairs. He opens the bedside table drawer and pulls out a gun. With trembling hands. Carefully he goes downstairs, tears in his eyes, trying to not make noises, he get to the kitchen, peeking in and seeing his child, still eating his own mother. “Patrick? …” Calls the man, with a broken voice, and entering in the kitchen with the gun in his hand. The child does not speak, slowly turns his head, showing the face of the kid, zombified.

Father is out of desperation, “it is not possible, no … no …” The child, with incredible speed, turns and leaps at him. It ‘s a moment. The man instinctively fires (scene framed in profile, with strong contrasts, bullet and blood coming out through the kid’s head). The man fell to his knees, drained, his wife and son dead in the kitchen. (-)
Screams from the other houses and the entire city.

Night, the man is emaciated, dirty, a bandage covering part of his head. He is in front of a gate with a sign Happy Milk, and a signal of restricted area. He looks at the large building that stands in front of him, he enters the courtyard. A couple of zombies who are eating the rotten carcass of an animal, they abandon it and attack him. He shots two bullets and cold kills them. “Tonight you will pay for what you did.” The man opens the door. (+)

Inside the factory. The man is walking inside (shot framed over the shoulder of another character).

There are tanks of milk everywhere, and floating catwalks, hanging from the roof).

“I never thought you’d taken so long to arrive …” woman’s voice, “This time will be your end”

The man answers, “you’ll pay for what you did to my wife and my son, and to the whole city.”

“Your son?? YOUR CHILD? “, the woman replies, turning and looking at him, with her eyes full of madness.” And what about all my sons and daughters, that you killed? “

“You’re crazy, you’re infected milk and you’ve created monsters. They are not your children, you have only broken lives.”

She laughs with sharp and distorted voice,” Fine words, too bad they are worth little, you are about to die.” (-)

The woman makes a step forward, dodges a bullet and jump over him, looking at him with her crazy eyes and lifting her clawed-fingered hands. She grabs him.The man is frees himself from the catch, and gives to her a kick in the stomach, throwing her in a group of milk tanks. He shots to her, in the middle of her head.”Finally it’s over,” the man moves away from the woman, and begins to walk toward the exit of the central milk. (+)

“You think you killed me? Really???” a sharp voice says behind him. “She will live until I decide otherwise. You must die… All of you must die! You ruined my life, we had no fault in what happened…”. The man turns and looks at the dead body. She is talking without moving her lips, and looks dead. “They told to us, to her… that the compound was inoffensive, that she could work with in complete safety, without any security suit… and that’s what happened!” The woman body shakes in a grotesque way and then she opens her eyes. She is alive. She is trembling. The hero doesn’t understand what it’s happening. “No please, don’t let me doing this, I’m your mother!” the woman says. “For this reason mother, you have to do that, do you want that your little baby will die?” She is moving in direction of a full milk tank. “You are right darling.. you are right”. (-)

The man shots her, one, two, three times, but she doesn’t stop to walk. Finally she reaches the tank and drinks the milk. She collapses on ground. The man moves forward to reach her, and finally he discovers where the other voice was from. In her belly there is a face, a fetus face with opened eyes and spiky teeth. “It’s not been a wise choice to come near me… you stupid idiot!” the fetus says. The woman jumps over her legs. The man takes few steps backward, astonished. She is growing up, increasing her size and becoming a zombie! The fetus pilot here like a robot, they are both laughing hysterically. (-)

Second battle begins. The hero shoots wildly but seems useless. The monster attacks him but he manages to dodge a few hits that destroy the surrounding structure. A punch, however, hits him, and “flies away” hitting the wall. The super zombie dashes forward, reaches the man and pierces him with her nails, trespassing his body side by side.. He, losing his senses, notices something out of the frame, with the little strength he has left. Meanwhile the woman zombie starts to lick his face as to taste him before slaughtering him. He aims, with his trembling arm, and shots a bullet. It scratches the monster face and flies away. (-)

She laughs, while the bullet cuts the last rope that held floating catwalk behind them. It swing down and violently beheads the monster. She is dead. The fetus cries in angry and despair. Her arm, separated by her body, is still through the man and the concrete wall. For this reason the hero is still standing up. Fetus voice decreases in intensity and becomes a feeble murmur. Than he dies. (+)

The hero closes his eyes, and sees the silhouettes of his lostwife and son.

Horror Climax and Controlling Idea

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Horror (Splatter / Uncanny) / sub. Action / / Action = Pure Zombies

Period: Today, the near future
Duration: 1 Year
Location: Large City (racoon city type)
Levels of conflict: man against monster to the death
Drinking Scene Position: Poison in the milk, beginning

Climax: the final fight between the bad (crazy woman) and the good one., The good one is going to win, throws the bad guy in a tank of milk (final location bottling plants), but the antagonist comes out from the tank and she is huge and really angry, “an ultimate zombie”!
Real last battle begins. The hero is in difficulty. Counted bullets.He realizes that the bullets don’t do any damage to the monster… She slams him against the wall, and pierces his chest with her clawed hand. He notices something out of the frame, with the little strength he has left, while the mega zombie woman licks her face as if to taste it before she will tear him to pieces. With his last strengths, the hero aims and fire a shot that goes next to the distorted face of the woman, scratching her face.She laughs.But the bullet wasn’t for her, it cuts the last rope that held a floating platform behind them. Zombie boss is violently beheaded. The hero falls to the ground (is he dead? Will he live? No answer to those questions), but, meanwhile his eyes are closing, he sees the silhouette of his wife and his son, behind them a bright light.
Controlling Idea [Value (positive or negative) + Cause]: Positive (Hero loses everything but has his revenge) + He finds a reason to keep living because he wants to find who ruined his life and to have revenge.