ANIM321-Creative Development for Filmmaking Animation-New Idea

So, as I was working on my new animatic for this week, I came up with a new idea that I like more than what I currently have in mind. The decision to make this change came from the fact that no matter what I came up with, I wasn't satisfied with how it was going. That and the story still lacked an obstacle/goal that I had come up with myself.

Halfway through making my animatic I came up with this idea and have decided to stick with it.

Idea- fox= trickster/sly figure. It decides to play a trick on an unsuspecting groom.
-a Japanese style, human wedding takes place on a Japanese shrine that is guarded/inhabited by normal foxes and fox spirits/demons
-on the day of the wedding, the bride chickens out and decides to runaway, moments before entering the shrine
-a fox spirit notices and takes interest, decides to play a prank on groom by taking the place of the runaway bride for a few decades
-wedding goes off without a hitch
-life together is great, except for certain instances where the fox's true identity comes close to being revealed. ex. obsessive addiction to tofu products, tails/ears/claws popping out at random times
-one day the fox feels tired of the prank and having to keep up with the disguise, decides to runaway
-turns out hubby had figured out the fox's true identity a long time ago and still loves the fox
-hubby eventually finds the fox at her shrine, tells the fox his feelings
-the two reunite and have a new wedding, this time the fox is in her true form instead of the disguise
-wedding takes place on the fox's shrine and occurs during a sun shower (shower that happens on a sunny day)
-groom comments on the 'fox's wedding'
-happily ever after~

ANIM321-Animatic

So, here's my latest update. It's an animatic that displays my idea for my 4th year grad film. First thing I made using TVPaint. I'm liking it so far. Its currently not timed very well and is fast paced, I was more worried about getting it all in at this point. There's no sound yet. Unfortunately I can't seem to upload a video directly onto my post... the button to upload videos isn't there... so here's a link to the animatic. I will upload a video directly onto my blog if I figure out what the problem is, I believe it has something to do with the fact that I'm using the old blogger layout settings.

*EDIT* ended up making a vimeo account, hopefully the embed for the video I have placed works... *EDIT*

ANIM321-Creative Development for Filmmaking Animation-Animatic from Sandy Sou on Vimeo.

ANIM321-Creative Development for Filmmaking Animation-Dialogue Updates

Wheee... long time since the last post. It is official, I'm quite behind in the dialogue assignment. I've been prioritizing other assignments and fell behind...=.='' I'm currently learning TVPaint, I'm liking it so far though the interface is a bit confusing at this point. So far bits of the animation for the dialogue has been done, just need to finish animating and start colouring it.

On another note, I finally have an idea for my grad film. I was thinking of creating a story about the Japanese story of "kitsune no yomeiri" or in other words "the fox's wedding". The story will include the characters I created for the dialogue, along with some other minor characters that may make small appearances. I have created some drawings for character design and settings but will not be posting them yet. I have also included a link to wiki's definition of a fox wedding, in case more information is needed. Fox Wedding Wiki

My idea for the story was that the cat character I have created is playing and exploring the shrine grounds it lives on. Then a sun shower happens, which is sometimes considered a sign that a fox wedding is occurring, and the cat notices the fox spirit character and a few others enter the shrine house. The cat is curious about what she sees and follows the spirits inside to find herself transported to another realm after passing the door. There she witnesses the wedding between some of the higher level fox spirits.