THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Back on storyboards this week.  I’m working on revising Act 1 of the 18th episode of the season. I watched the storyreel Monday and it really made me laugh.  I really like this show. I was really surprised when the director told me there were so many revision in Act one.

Turns out I have a lot work to do.  Usually I managed to finish roughing out the fixes on a board in about two days.  This one is took me three.  The director told me I have this week and next week to finish working on it but I’d rather try to finish as much as I possibly can THIS week.  That way I can at least help out with the revisions of Act 3 or 4, even though the director told me they had small rewrites.  By tomorrow, I’ll see if I meet my goal tomorrow.

VIDEO

I like Aardman animation. You know, the WALLACE AND GROMIT guys.  Well, they did a little short for DC Nation using their CREATURE COMFORTS  interview style with DC Superheroes.  I thought it was great so here it for you to enjoy:

ART

Woo Hoo! I finished thumbnailing page 5!  Wow does that feel good. It totally feels like I passed a milestone on my personal project.  That was an unexpected amount of work for  1/4 of a page of script. Now I have five more script pages to thumbnail, and I think page 6 is almost as  complicated as page 5.  Come to think of it, I think every page except the last one is as complicated if not MORE complicated than page 5.  I’ve got a LOT of work to do.  I hope I feels as good after finishing each one as I did finishing this one:

It’s difficult to tell from my thumbnails but I screwed up some visuals earlier in the  script.  As written, I had the Lead Sorcerer, take out a sack with a living viper in it and stab it with a knife in order to cast a spell.  Well, I accidentally skimmed over that and didn’t draw it.   When I realized what I had done I decided to go back and put it in, but as I looked at the shots, I realized it would have slowed things down.  I asked myself why it was important to show that.  It was simply to show that in order to cast his spells, that Sorcerer had to kill an animal.  Well, I wondered if it would be possible to show that same thing more simply somewhere else. The answer was yes.  So now, when I thumbnail the camera cutting back to the Lead Sorcerer in the next group of thumbnails, I’ll have the Sorcerer holding a bloody knife in one hand and a bleeding dying viper in the other as he says his dialogue. Hopefully, you can deduce what happened from the visual without having to spell it out.  Once I board the shots officially, I’ll see if this plan will work or not.
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