Pitch: What's better than one evil penguin blowing up things? Two armies of evil penguins blowing up each other - booya!
Proposal:
I'm taking the evil penguins to a new level = war time in penguinville! I want to start of with newspapers running across the screen with different headlines giving some background on the war. Think Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix where they transitioned through a montage by flying in and out of pictures in the newspaper. I really loved that effect and I would like to duplicate it in my project. One of the headlines will read 'cold war' and underneath it is a moving picture of a penguin. I want the camera to zoom into the picture and have the picture become the scene. There will be a color change to the whole scene (like the newspaper is all sepia looking and the actual scene will be saturated colors)
At this point I want to show the penguins (lets call the different sides A & B) throw text at each other to show them being in a cold war. I want the area that they are set in to be 3D space. So will show the text leaving the mouth of side A penguin and travel over a distance where we are revealed side B's penguin and have the text explode or hit him. I am going to use particle effects on the text to give them a more dangerous look.
After a back and forth with the text slinging I want to come back out in to the newspaper. Then the a headline or two to catch up with how the war actually broke out. Then back in to a new picture of all out war between the two sides. The camera will closely follow snowball bombs from one fort to another and see the explosion. See reaction of the attacking penguins. and then a retaliation from the hit penguins.
Bring camera out to newspaper and then into the next headline saying 'Santa (or whoever) sends plane to end the war'
I want to end the war by having an airplane fly over the war field causing all the penguins to look up and then fall over on their backs.
Assets:
Newspaper
Headlines
Text for newspaper
Text for Cold war + particles
Penguins- 5 for each side (I have the basic form of penguin I want to use from previous project)
- test flash animated penguins.
Sound effects (Pulled some from the UT library)
Snowball bombs + particles(already have snowballs drawn up just need to make them in to bombs)
Background 3D
- forts-2
- snow particles
- sky
- ground
- dead penguins (already have basic form)
plane
Camera movements
Schedule:
1st week: plan out the project, make a rough storyboard, decide on text to use, draw up snowball bombs and different versions of penguins, and start laying out background.
2nd Week: Finish laying out background, place penguins in position, test flash animated penguins, start laying out newspaper, plane and camera movements.
3rd week: add flying text and bombs to the seen, polish the pengin's movements, put in particle simulations on everything that requires it. Make final changes and finish anything that I left out.
4th week: Add sound effects in and polish everything that needs to be polished.
Story board coming soon! Any suggestions or comments are most welcome!
Zooming in
Photo changing from still to moving/color change
In the scene. Penguin in the snowball fort. (text:Jerk)
3D Word flying to the other fort (with camera movement)
Text flying through the air (I'll do this in After Effects)
Incoming!
Changes to still with saturation to transition to newspaper picture
Zoom out to see newspaper
Newspaper: Mythbusters find sticks and stones theory to be Busted!
