Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Main Character : Angel

After a few discussions with my teammates and my teachers and also oppinions from some of my friends, we decided to stick to the first version of the story. Since we have started to build the environments.

Anyway, here is the main character in this short animation : The Angel who control the weather machine.


There are 2 versions of it drew by Maya Astri and Ainsley Herd.

The Angel by. Maya Astri


The Angel by. Ainsley Herd
The Angel (coloured)
Sketched by. Ainsley Herd, Coloured by. Celica Dharmawan
Note : The coloured version is the final design of the character.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Scripts

We have 3 characters in this story :
1. Woman (The victim)
2. Angel from Weather Control Department
3. God

I will upload the images of them soon as I got the right design.

These are the script


1st Alternative :

Ext. Paradise City’s street environment

The camera moves down from the sky, penetrates through the clouds. Paradise City’s environment appears. The camera stops, it shows the established shot of one of the street on Paradise City’s neighbourhood.

A young girl walks along the side of the street passing through the houses on that street, some cars parked on the road. It is a bright clear sunny day but suddenly a light shower starts to fall. The young girl stops for a while and she starts rummaging through her big hand bag. She pulls out a red umbrella from her bag and opens it quickly.

She continues to walk again but after a few steps the rain suddenly stops. She confused but then she puts her umbrella back into her bag and continues to walk.

A few steps ahead the rain starts again. She pulls out her umbrella and opens it again. Like before, after a few steps the rain suddenly stops. She closes her umbrella.

After a few steps, the rain starts falling again. She opens her umbrella. Then it stops again. She closes her umbrella.

Not long after that the rain starts to fall again, she’s getting upset but still open her umbrella. After a few seconds the rain stops again. She is really upset now. She screams to the sky, complaining to God. The camera pans up to the sky as the voice of her scream goes up to the sky.

Cut to.


Int. Weather Control Room

In this weather control room, an Angel is taking a nap while he is on duty of operating the weather machine control, when he supposed to keep an eye of this ‘mainframe computer’ like machine.

Suddenly, the woman’s voice who screamed from earth is echoing that room. He awakes. He still confused about what’s going on, but before he knows it, the human’s complains light on the control machine starts to beep. First is a constant beeping and then it starts to beep rapidly causing a noisy sound. The angel shocked and gets panic and start to press some buttons few times to make the noise gone.

As he pressed the button, an image appears on the screen in front of him. There’s a report titled ‘Paradise City Weather Report’ on the screen. There’s a complain parameter on the right side of the screen which is rising up. The weather parameter on the screen’s upper left corner keep changing from sunny to rain in an absurd frequency. There are also disturbing voices of Paradise City’s people whingeing when the complain parameter turns red.

The angel panic and start to look the ‘sunny’ button. As he found it he tried to press it several times until suddenly somebody opens the door behind him.

He shocked and turns around to see who just came. His face changed as the big shadow of God cover his face and a big heavy voice of God scolds him.

God put His hands up to His waist and starts to scold the angel but suddenly He stops. He tells the angel to wait then He is out of the room.


Int. Hall and Toilet

God walks in the hall and then He enters a room which appears to be a toilet.

He walks to one of the toilet chambers and close the door.

The camera pans down, the God’s feet appears after the end of the toilet door. The camera keep pan down through the floor. The toilet pipes appear. The camera stops at one of the pipes joint. There’s a sound of flushing toilet and a second later the pipes joint starts to leak.


Ext. Paradise City’s street environment

The panning down camera is back to the earth again, showing the woman from the first scene who is walking on the Paradise City neighbourhood with her upset face and she still put her umbrella up and down according to the on and off rain.



2nd Alternative :

Ext. Paradise City’s street environment

The camera moves down from the sky, penetrates through the clouds. Paradise City’s environment appears. The camera stops, it shows the established shot of one of the street on Paradise City’s neighbourhood.

A young girl walks along the side of the street passing through the houses on that street, some cars parked on the road. It is a bright clear sunny day but suddenly a light shower starts to fall. The young girl stops for a while and she starts rummaging through her big hand bag. She pulls out a red umbrella from her bag and opens it quickly.

She continues to walk again but after a few steps the rain suddenly stops. She confused but then she puts her umbrella back into her bag and continues to walk.

A few steps ahead the rain starts again. She pulls out her umbrella and opens it again. Like before, after a few steps the rain suddenly stops. She closes her umbrella.

After a few steps, the rain starts falling again. She opens her umbrella. Then it stops again. She closes her umbrella.

Not long after that the rain starts to fall again, she’s getting upset but still open her umbrella. After a few seconds the rain stops again. She is really upset now. She screams to the sky, throws her umbrella away. The camera pans up to the sky as the voice of her scream goes up to the sky.

Cut to.


Int. God’s Office

The scream of the girl comes up to the ear of God who is sitting on His big chair facing the window of His super big office.

God thinks and suddenly He figure out something. He turns around, facing His big office table. He reaches one of the corners of His table. He press the weather button on that table, the one who has sun, cloud and thunder images on it.

One second later, a great lighting with the sound of thunder struck the God’s office. An angel appears. He is wearing a batch of weather logo on his chest.

He bows to God and ask why God summoned him to His office. God flick his fingers and a transparent screen appears beside Him, shows the woman who is just complaining to God.

The angel confused. He grabs a remote from his suite. Another transparent screen appears and shows the weather report of Paradise City. It has the current date and current weather which shows that Paradise City supposed to be sunny right now.

They both confused. God is about to say something but suddenly He stops. He holds His stomach and excuse Himself, then He walk away and leave the office.


Int. Hall and Toilet

God walks in the hall and then He enters a room which appears to be a toilet. He walks to one of the toilet chambers and close the door.

The camera pans down, the God’s feet appears after the end of the toilet door. The camera keep pan down through the floor. The toilet pipes appear. The camera stops at one of the pipes joint. There’s a sound of flushing toilet and a second later the pipes joint starts to leak and the camera pans down fast.


Ext. Paradise City’s street environment

The panning down camera is back to the earth again, showing the woman from the first scene who is walking on the Paradise City neighbourhood with her upset face and she still put her umbrella up and down according to the on and off rain.

The Story

This short animation story is about the leak in heaven's toilet which caused an 'on and off' rain on earth.

We already started working in this project since last year. This is a 3D short animation film project. We got the animatic storyboard so far, but too much consultation with so many different people who has so many different opinions for our project really confuses us. So we kept changing the story and storyboards which is wasting too much time.

We kept redoing everything until we realised that we've only got 10 weeks left. Ok, We're screwed. So, we've decided that we wont bother to listen to other opinions again. Just continue with what we've got so far.

Currently we have 4 people working on this project (1 is our sound designer). We're still working on the character design. We have got the right environment design, so we just still looking for the right character design that fit into the environment.

I have 2 alternative stories. I have the environment designs for both. We're building both
environments in 3D so far, hopefully we could decide the final story by next week.