I have finished the animatic (timed storyboard) for Yellow Cake.
I started storyboarding the film in October of 2006. It started with only a few notes and a general outline; I wrote it as I boarded it. This the way I find is the most creative and interesting way to work; the only down side is that you end up with a lot of scenes that need to be edited out later at the editing stage.
The first edit ended up timing out to a little over 12 minutes and the story was a little convuluted. After going back and cutting and reboarding a few scenes I managed to get it down to its current length: 8 minutes 30 seconds.
I've uploaded a sneak peek at the first minute for you all to have a peek at. (Click image)Have fun....next step, layout!!!
19 comments:
lookin' sweet! this is gonna be awesome!
wonderful composition and great music!
I am sure it will be great!
Also, thanks for the great words of wisdom!
GREAT! This makes me hungry for MORE! ;-)
Any news about the DVD?
Delightful! Everyone's using exclamation points, and I wanted to break from the pack. But I just had to use it anyway, to give it the proper zing ... !!
I want more, this looks fantastic.
Funny, John K just did a post on storyboards and I asked:
but if you create everything on the storyboard, does it mean the person who does the board should also be the one who came up with the story? If not, how will you transmit it to the storyboard artist? Do you act everything out to him/her?
And how much of the story should you know before start drawing? Should you know how will it end?
It's the second time i ask the same stuff and i don't get an answer. I guess there's too much comments for him to pay attention to every one. And now I come here and read your post, I'm thrilled! You pros probably forget what it was like to dig for this kind of information, just watching your animatic is so instructive. I had a lot of doubts about the amount of detail that went to the boards, and i didn't know the animatic was done before the layouts (it makes sense now that i think about it). And it looks like the film will kick ass. I wish to see it someday, along with Waif of Persephone. Keep up the good work, Nick!
Love the timing. I'm a big fan of long pauses in the right place and I think you nailed it in this part.
Where did you get the music???
Haha, great music selection! Lookin' good Nicko.
ha ha ha ha...Jesus...
I can't wait to see what horrible things happen to that cute little baker.
hey nick, nice work! cant wait to see more!
say, did you get my email on the show? ill be sending another one shortly, i forgot to mention the adress of the place to send the piece to.
hey nick, nice work! cant wait to see more!
say, did you get my email on the show? ill be sending another one shortly, i forgot to mention the adress of the place to send the piece to.
This looks great! Is there any change what we will see a colored drawing of the main character?
Thanks for sharing Nick! I love to see work-in-progress. We struggle so hard on our own, doing stuff, it's great getting a chance to put stuff out there for folks to see. Keep it up dude; it's looking awesome. I love the peppy, up-beat music and the swing of the characters..yay :-D
Wow it's so busy and energetic right in the beginning!
Where did you get this fantastic music?
I loved "The Waif..", and I can't wait to see how this one turns out.
cant wait for this one. his little chef hat is hilarious
This looks real cool! I too can't wait to see more on this.
this is looking great, can't wait. did i miss out on the waif dvd...gawd i hopes not!
In most cartoons today,
you'd just see a guy
walk into a room
and say to a held cel,
"Welp, I just did some baking".
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