Initially, I had hoped that the team would be in better spirits after a good night's sleep, however, there was still an air of disheartening when I arrived in the studio. Basically, half of the team is rather fixated on our old story, which is pretty good and we did spend quite a while to polish it but the client clearly said, Kill it. Therefore, even if it feels like someone saying your baby is ugly, you still gotta move on ahead. Frankly, I just want to progress to the next stage in the new direction the client had clearly specified. Let's hope the people would get over it soon.
Either way, I have already started on two new storyboards in the meantime.
Either way, I have already started on two new storyboards in the meantime.
The above is actually a storyboard to the rejected story, to summarize, Auton (main character) and his friend Derrie is in a park. Derrie is talking about how we should care for animals when Auton suddenly leaves and crushes two snails near them. Derrie was initially shocked, but when he saw auton feeding the ants with the dead snail, he then understood the intent behind Auton's thoughts. At the end, the ant high-fives Auton.
Another storyboard for the same story of Auton and Derry, only this time the set up is a bit different, here we have them catching ants (as children do sometimes, I've seen kids catch lizards then throw in ants to feed the lizard during recess, which made me puke out my lunch ughh)
They start playing with the jar of ants, spongebob style i suppose, until Auton realizes the ants were hungry. He then fed the ants with the snail. same ending.
I really should clean up these storyboards...I apologise for the ripped paper but ehhh after the client rejected that story i don't really have the heart to clean it up. Nor the time actually.
They start playing with the jar of ants, spongebob style i suppose, until Auton realizes the ants were hungry. He then fed the ants with the snail. same ending.
I really should clean up these storyboards...I apologise for the ripped paper but ehhh after the client rejected that story i don't really have the heart to clean it up. Nor the time actually.
This is a start on the idea of the 'ac unit' idea that our client wants. In the front, the set up is of cloudy skies and a school garden in which we sees a butterfly flying around. Auton is in class and he looks at the ac unit. As he does so, he imagines it as a cute rabbit (or anything else). Lightning/rain is heard and he turns around to find a butterfly that is drenched with water. To help the miserable creature, Auton opens the window and get into the classroom. The butterfly thanks Auton and kisses him? (maybe, maybe not include this one) but he flies away to the air conditioner to dry off. However as the butterfly dries off, it was sucked into the ac unit which at this point Auton imagines it to be menacing. After witnessing the terrible act, Auton starts crying (?) the teacher could be shown comforting him after that.
The butterfly idea was an adoption of the old idea we had before and incorporated into the new one.
The butterfly idea was an adoption of the old idea we had before and incorporated into the new one.
The above is a very very very rough idea I had in the middle while trying to draw a storyboard exactly as the script treatment specified. Halfway in, I changed the direction it was heading. Basically, the set up is the same, the teacher is going on about her business teaching and Auton is being distracted by the aircon which was spluttering subtly. (that's why he notices it, since autistic ppl are more acute to noises) While looking at it, he imagines that he is inside the ac unit, miniscule size. In there, he meets several dust monsters. He runs away pac man style (it's very rough becos at that point i was just throwing all my ideas in as quickly as possible) until he notices a brush which he grabs and as the dust monster approaches, he slashes it and it 'died'. This then transitions back to the real world where the teacher was trying to get Auton's attention. However, he is still focused on the air con. The air con's sounds were much more normal(?) and Auton deduces that's partly because of him and he is happy.
Just some ideas to bounce around, I will clean this up soon.
Just some ideas to bounce around, I will clean this up soon.