Storyboard 01

 Week 3 - Day 2

Storyboarding!! Four words: I don't wike it. SO NOT READY FOR IT. But, you gotta do what you gotta do, so let's get a move on it.

Yesterday, I made a start on the storyboard but I started a bit too weirdly with trying to do an establishing shot of a street view outside the funeral house where the delivery van was supposed to pull up. Thankfully, I realized about halfway in that starting the shot like that wasn't quite the way to go so I scraped that idea and decided an inside look of the building would work better instead.

I started off yesterday but it didn't feel very productive and I only managed to get 1 and a half pages done which I re-did a bit of today and I couldn't really be bothered posting up until I at least finished all of it. (Phew.) Total, I managed to get about 3 pages of storyboarding done. Yay! Thank goodness I don't need to worry too much about audio/dialogue and lip syncing, but here you have it!

Cakeburster Storyboard 01

Cakeburster Storyboard 02

Cakeburster Storyboard 03

I tried to keep as close to the actual Alien scene as much as possible, minus the blood and gore and...twitchiness coming from the poor unfortunate soul and this is the end result of it. It's not so bad for a second go around.

I showed Sam the storyboard and he approved. WOOHOO! But I need to get more people to look at it...

Tea and Adrian both mentioned that I should add a candle on the cake to make it clearer what it is so people don't confuse it for a two-tier wedding cake at a church (wedding and a funeral, anybody?). Adrian also thinks I could probably stop it at Shot 02, Panel 04 for a more comedic aspect of the scene, ending it off with the audio of the grieving widow.

(I would also like to apologize for my atrocious handwriting. It started off nice but it got worse as I progressed along...)

Ben thinks I could include a pause in between Shot 02, Panels 03 and 04 for more dramatic effect, and the whole animation could easily take up to 6 seconds, maybe more.

PROGRESS IS GREAT!!!

You can kind of tell where I restarted from the brush size starting on page 2. Trust me, the first try was horrendous but it helped me figure out a better pose so ALL WAS NOT LOST.

Adios amigos.

CHEERS!