Monday, June 4, 2012

CENTRAL PARK REFERENCE

Alyssa and I decided to place this in a Central Park-esque setting. Central Park is the park of parks and there are a lot of really cool things...so here are some reference photos from Centralpark.com

Pay attention to the wall behind them.. 
For the skyline...

trees

great colors and such


skyline...

trees and bridge

more skyline

a central park bench. perfect.


ground texture reference (for garrett)

the fountain




this one is fantastic. the colors are great...and in terms of composition we could slap the bench right where the crazy lady is and have the pigeon where the girl is standing!

street lamp reference (if we go in that direction)

beautiful colors



flower reference

if we decide to have a statue...

A NAME?


"The Pigeon Film" has a nice ring to it...but maybe we should also be thinking of clever names for this little project...

*ASSET LIST

*This is preliminary. Who knows what'll happen, but this is what Alyssa and I have so far...


  • The Businessman
  • The Pigeon
  • The sandwich (most likely a foot-long sub sandwich)
  • Alka-Seltzer tablet plus wrapper
  • Brown paper sack
  • Tree (depending on how we want to set up the surroundings)
  • Park Bench (something Central Park flavored)
  • Bush (also...depending on how we want to set up the surroundings)
  • Briefcase
  • The background (most likely will be a matte painting)
  • Burnt Pigeon legs
  • Cookie (chocolate chip...mmmmm...)
  • Feathers (after the explosion)

THE STORY

One lovely afternoon, a big city businessman decides to take his lunch break outside in a nearby park.  He walks up to a little bench, places his briefcase next to him and opens his sack lunch. He pulls out a sandwich and opens wide for his first bite.

Just before he bites the sandwich, he notices a pigeon. It flies up to him and stares at the sandwich with its big beady eyes. It tilts its head and blinks. The businessman looks nervously at his sandwich and then back at the pigeon. The pigeon licks it beak.

Suddenly, the pigeon attacks like a pitbull, latching onto the sandwich.  The businessman tries to yank the sandwich away, but the pigeon WILL NOT LET GO!

A tug-of-war ensues between a grown man and a small, but voracious pigeon. The business man tries with all his strength to pull his sandwich free...but he is overpowered and falls to the ground. The pigeon swallows the sandwich and looks down at him. It hops closer to him as he lays on the ground. 

The businessman feels around in his jacket for something else to give the pigeon so it won't eat him alive. He reaches inside his jacket and pulls out an Alka-Seltzer tablet. He looks at the pigeon. It licks its beak again. The businessman smiles, rips off the wrapper like he's pulling the pin of a grenade and chucks the Alka-Seltzer far away.  He then curls up in a ball to protect himself.

The pigeon hops off the bench, flies over, and eats the Alka-Seltzer. It then inflates, it's body growing  like a balloon. The camera cuts back to the man. We hear a loud explosion, a bright flash, and a puff of feathers. He lifts up his head and it cuts back to the bird. All that is left are two smoking pigeon legs surrounded by a charred black blast radius.

The businessman dusts himself off and sits back down on the bench. He has a smug grin as he pulls out a cookie from his brown paper sack. He smells it, feeling quite proud of his victory. He suddenly hears the cooing sounds of hundreds of pigeons. He opens his eyes to see a large group of pigeons staring at the cookie he now holds.

The camera cuts back to the businessman who gulps.

THE END

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Our lil' Summer Project

Hey guys and gal,

We are doing our super animation short, this is the blog where you will find all sorts of nifty stuff like Deadlines *duh dah duhhhhh* and things that other people are working on.

So just look under the tabs located near the top of the blog to see where you should post. You'll all be admins to the blog (meaning we are all in charge).

I am not the director, we all are. :)  It is safe to assume though that I am something like the producer- the one who sets deadlines and communicates perhaps a bit more frequently between the pipeline just to crack the whip. Don't worry, it's a soft whip.

So who exactly will be working on this story? Who is in charge of what? When should I have my stuff done by? And what should I do when I am done with something or have a question? Check out the tabs at the top and it should be pretty user friendly. And I've added a search bar just under the tabs to make it easy to find blog old posts from others- just type in a keyword.

So let's get busy and get this super animation short done!