Finally doing the story board for 'The Dude and the Dog'

Having the full concept and script done for 'the dude and the dog' is a giant relief. We spent far too long on this part, but i think that was down to not having the whole of the team participating the script writing or not enjoying the script as a whole. We haven't even strayed too far from the initial concept but i think that was a strength as keeping the message strong was very important to Indya. I will be first to point the blame to myself in regards to the time management but i made clear from the start that was my weakest point and to be fair I think all of us are in a similar boat. We dont have much time to do the animation before the show but im not that stressed about it at the minute as while me and indya were writing the script, we kept in mind to be able to reuse certain scenes. I am quite please with the final idea and how the interaction works, i do think though that if we had the whole team participating in the writing process we would of had it finished sooner. I dont think the group had a good dynmamic, as half of use worked in different ways.

Poli and maddy have told me that they wanted to the animating part to them selves, so they have the first scene to do between each other. With them not being at the meetings, they dont have a full grasp on what the idea is supposed to look like so the storyboarding has been given to me. I'm quite excited to it but my digital drawing abilities arent the greatest, and that was apparent when i used Polis tablet to attempt the story board. It was quite poor but the general gist was understandable and i find it difficult to use Polis surface pro as i find the screen too small to work on.

storyboard - city brief v.rough from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.

I do know that the digital drawing is a skill i need to impove on and im quite dissapointed that i might not get a chance to animate a scene.

I knew that it would be best to have a much more cleaner storyboard/animatic so i broke down the footage we took and timed it in accordance to its surroundings. I wrote up a second bar sheet for maddy and poli to use but i don't know if they'll use it.

timed story board from muntasir chowdhurry on Vimeo.

I really quite enjoyed this process, and i think it would of enjoyed it even more if i printed off the frames i had broken down to use and drew on top of that. I'm quite pleased with how it looks even tho it is still quite rough. I've also taken frames with the stickmen, and wrote notes of how the expressions should be and with the minimun frames i wanted.

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