http://forums.cgsociety.org CGTalk, the CGSociety's official forum for digital artists 120 en-us http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1057472 Posted By: JinWook
Post Time: 06-26-2012 at 08:30 AM
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I used a slightly unconventional method of storyboarding for this ad. Decided Photoshop over pens and pencils. What the client saw he liked so I suppose it's about what get's the job done.

Brief production process from concept to production: http://houseofwook.com/a-couple-of-storyboard-examples/]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:30:01 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=966878 Posted By: flowbot
Post Time: 03-23-2011 at 05:38 PM
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Hello,

currently i'm working on my bachelor thesis which will be an animated short of roughly 1 minute length. It's not my first short but right now i just can't think of a funny story with a good punchline for the short. I'm looking for dry, maybe dark humor. Plus: it has to work without dialogue.

I was thinking about these two characters: A very nice, cute Monster/Demon and a Girl which is kinda into dark stuff, monsters and whatnot.. i thought: hey there are tons of opportunities for a great short.. but as of now i don't know anything, my head is empty and i've been thinking about this for quite a time.

The short will be made in 3D and should be around 1 minute or less, but 2 minutes at the most! It is important that there is 1 or 2 sets at the most, like a graveyard or like a small room. Unfortunateley i won't have much time so i can only do so much.

Some ideas i got were:


Well, my question to you is this:
Can you give me some suggestions?
What do you think could happen if a demon or small devil meets a girl, in my case a nice demon and a kind of secluded, nerdy girl, although i wouldn't want to fix myself on that The crazier, faster and more unexpected, the better.

I hope you can help me out if it's not too much for a new member to ask of the writingforum.
Thank you very much]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:38:18 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=944792 Posted By: zambz
Post Time: 12-26-2010 at 03:03 AM
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Hi, ive been currently studying media practice for the past 2 years at uni and have found it mind numbingly boring lol, so in my last year i decided to choose an animation pathway and after some chopping and choosing have come to love 3d and have been playing with Maya, now my skills at Maya are not the best, far from it, Ive tried my best at modeling organics but have found my skills lacking to pull of anything convincing for my final project so have decided about Cyborgs/robots wooop

here's my dilemma, trying to figure out some type of story/scenario, harder then i thought it would be seeing as no matter what, i seem to have cyborg ninjas stuck in my head lol


so below im have a few ideas, some better then others, i would like to get input on what you guys think about them and what seems to have better potential .

aaw forgot to say after uni i want to become an environmental artist and cinematic's for games and such, getting into other areas later on, Ive actually been messing about with udk and find it extremely fascinating to be able to create such beautiful environments


and so here comes my ideas:


MAIN STORY IDEA

This is a story about a sweet little robot in a fake metal/mechanical forest/garden

the little robot sees a robotic butterfly fly past and starts to chase the butterfly through the forest/garden, climbing over and through everything just to get to this butterfly that its obsessed with

suddenly the robot comes across a real tree in its path, the tree has a small hole in it that only the butterfly can get through and so the butterfly flies through it and the robot stands there and decodes what to do.

After thinking for a few seconds, the robots eyes start to glow red and a huge cannon around 4-5x bigger then the robot comes out of the robots back and blows the tree up leaving a huge crater,
the robot goes back to its sweet self and continues its chase after the butterfly......

thinking of setting this in the future, real flowers and life are rare overshadowed by industry and technology and thinking comedy, making the robot sweet to begin with but if anything gets in its way, it gets angry and blows it up

by doing this story it allows me to experiment with animating with a simple form but also allows me to create a really cool style environment.

what do you guys think to his idea? think it has potential, what would and wouldn't you think would work?



That's my main idea, but i have some other simple ideas that i havn't been able to get any foundations down things like....

• Ninja robots lol
• Cyborg with a human heart
• Robot rapist; that rapes all the appliances it sees
• A robot that gets given a human heart, falls in love with a washing machine but gets nothing back, heart breaks

Thanks for taking the time to read all help is welcomed..




.]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:03:27 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=882750 Posted By: Godzi
Post Time: 05-16-2010 at 09:05 AM
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Hello,

I am living in Japan since 3 years and had an idea of story that I think would be very interesting to realize in 3D.
I would take care of the storyboards, character design, story of course but I ld like to get in touch with some 3d artists and animators to work on this project.

Here is my email : naoura7@hotmail.com

Cheers,


Lauri.]]> Sun, 16 May 2010 04:05:35 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=865130 Posted By: padfoot7726
Post Time: 03-21-2010 at 07:45 PM
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This is a concept for a short animated film, about a doorman, whose hat is stolen. The style both thematically and visually would be that of a kind of Pixar-ish story-centric comedy. It's mainly to be used as a demo reel piece as a character animator, but I would like to get the story right, and keep people interested. Any critique at all is greatly appreciated.
The outline is attached.]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:45:34 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=862997 Posted By: HughBowen
Post Time: 03-14-2010 at 05:23 PM
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So Im developing a very experimental concept of using real-time rendering in game engines for production. I intend to apply my concept to Cryengine 2 or 3 sandbox. Now on the technical side I want to fully use these tools to produce a High quality film and use advanced visual effects, and digital filmmaking techniques used in practice today such as matte painting,compositing and various other methods to produce the desired effects without compromising any thing. Ive seen a small test concept showing a very small percentage of how next gen game engines can be a great asset in production. I would love any advice,speculation,or visual effects know how as to a idea on any unseen problems or roadblocks that might occur ahead of time that I might have to address thanks.]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:23:18 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=862866 Posted By: k-night
Post Time: 03-14-2010 at 04:02 AM
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I am looking for anyone that cna help me. I am working on my final project for my Uni
and I kind of stuck with my idea, any advice

This project would be around 3-4 mins using 3d animation I want comedy and fantasy style

The main character would be a little devil who live in the darkness world. One day he relise that he just sees only the darkness and he want something new so he go to the gate which seperate darkness world and world of light. He try to get throught but he can't. When he gives up suddenly the door just open. He hesitate but still move forward. In the world of light is full of beautiful things and kindness angel with a beautiful halo. That's make he really want to have it because it might turn him to be a beautiful angel. He try to steal the halo while the angel try to avoid devil. Finally the devil took the halo and run back to the gate in order to gain safetyness but he can't get to the gate. He turn around and face the angly angel.

Here is my idea of the story which need lots of improvement.
And the problem with this story is, my lecture said the I play with people believe and I need to research more which I already did. But As I research I got very confuse and can't think of anything. Lots' of question came up : Can devil want to be good and can angel be bad or get angly? The end of the story Should they switch the place or they both turn to human. every action of the character need to have reason and meaning.

Please give some feedback or any resource that I can look throught???
Thank you]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:02:31 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=861763 Posted By: Oroborus
Post Time: 03-10-2010 at 05:47 AM
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Hi guys,

Any writers have a suggestion on softwares to write a screenplay. I have many ideas to write about but I don't want to make fatal mistakes on my script and have it thrown in the can. Again this isn't a comparison on which software can pee further... I'm just looking for an easy to use one and one that helps getting the writer out of the common mental block.

Thanks in advance,

Luix]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:47:45 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=861383 Posted By: alexbloom
Post Time: 03-08-2010 at 08:54 PM
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Idea and Erdenko Alexander's concept. qw-er@mail.ru>>>>
After explosion on Chernobyl NucPlant (1986г.) and population evacuations, have begun a recovery work on sarcophagus shelter, after the termination of works the international commission gathers for acceptance as a part of the USSR, Poland, France, Germany, the USA, Japan. Suddenly there is an emission from under shelters and all people officially perish. But a part of committee-men have taken cover in one of laboratories where have stuck to itself the new not tested antipillbox. So after a mutation from members of the international commission there was a society of psi-mutants O-consciousness. It not casually all committee-men were agents of secret organisation "Trident" - which was engaged in the psi-weapon and an occultism. The zone as in game the Shade of Chernobyl (2012г is then shown.) Round a zone the perimetre with the military USSR and a peace-making contingent of the United Nations-NATO for restraint of attacks of mutants and from penetration into a zone of people from Continent was formed. The perimetre had dead zones through which gangsters and scientists-enthusiasts, fanatics led by sorcerers-psychics got into a zone of the tramp-stalkers. So there were groupings Stalkers, Gangsters, Scientific, Fanatics who arranged dismantlings and among themselves and against Military men. Then the part of scientists has united with gangsters, and other part with stalkers. Gangsters have organised the huge underground markets on sale of the weapon, artefacts and ammunition, bureau an extreme - tourism - hunting, a psi-escort-service, services of sorcerers and psychics. Scientists under cover stalkers studied materials of a zone and have far promoted in various technologies and have learn to extinguish Zone radiations cureless controllable territories in blossoming oases under a power dome (a climate Spring). The armistice with military men (uncontrollable anger, suspiciousness have left, after destruction of psi-installations and refusal of a mobile communication) is reached and the Perimeter of the Zone has started to be compressed by combined efforts round the Sarcophagus. But as soon as all groupings have approached close to the reactor strong earthquake and a strange luminescence of atmosphere has begun. The territory part has failed, and the centre with the Sarcophagus and buildings, and also the big underground constructions has soared up in the sky and fly at height of 12 km - so the most powerful psi-radiator was formed Nebilon-O-consciousness. From the formed huge crater the new wave of artificial nano-mutants more dangerous and hardy than at first has rushed. Climate changes - in the Zone centre - winter-40S, in the middle - rainy autumn, on boundaries - hot summer.>> it is necessary to the protagonist: 1) to Break in the Zone,>> 2) to gain authority сталкеров and to form the team of fighters and scientists,>> 3) to Get on a bottom of the formed crater and to stop nano-factories on manufacture of mutants-cyborgs, and also to find tele-port the leader on a trailing sarcophagus-station of O-consciousness and to destroy psi-matrixes of egregors the O-consciousnesses generated by members to disconnect a mobile communication as the shadowing and zombiing tool.>> 4) Will finish with bases of organisation "Trident" supervised by O-consciousness. To open a network of plots in the different countries. To reform the United Nations, to prevent 3rd world war. To interfere with arrival antihrist.>>>> the Psychological outline change of private world of the hero depending on acts and as a variant enslavement to O-consciousness owing to a considerable quantity of the spilt blood is not dependent on situations. So simply power methods not to win. To investigate threads of plot and will be kept from unjustified violence holly-father Serafim who has not left the Temple in the Zone will help monk and has got inexplicable abilities to a survival in radiating pollution and to change of a rigid climate (Winter) on soft (Spring) and behaviour of people and monsters towards reconciliation.>>>> Gameplay: it will be possible to Play for stalkers, gangsters, scientific, scouts ( special services, the military USSR, the military NATO, the head "O-consciousnesses" - in submission of grouping Fanatics (Monolith) and partially the NATO and Gangsters, well and the full moron against all. Scale operations between groupings and against mutants. Various updatings of protecting perimetre with minefields, 12 metre armour walls, machine-gun towers and poisoning gases.>> the hi-tech drawing 11DX on a cursor "Unreal 4" and atmosphere "the Shade of Chernobyl". Has begun with a self-made bullet-proof vest from the rests of technics plus crossbow with the poisoned arrows and explosiv draughts, to heaped up flying exosceleton with self-directed lasers, rockets, droids of the support, soaring scooters on gravi-artefacts, fighting robots, aircraft, a call of artillery support, 15 super-technologies for development and the prorolling, the developed economy barter and monetary relations, various currency, exchangers, the VIP salons and bars, trading bases and military technology and equipment warehouses, the trading caravans, a destroyed environment and realistic defeat-damage of characters, monsters from "Shadow of Chernobyl" and new flying with nano-implants and a cybernetic stuffing of all nearby 20. Huge territory of events of types of transport of 100-150 sq.km. 30. The developed system of dialogue and diplomacy - logical and various dialogues, a mobile communication, satellite photographing, flash with the data, the coded storehouses, the book of records, arenas of fights, a management of several groups of subordinates, creation of own bases and laboratories.>>>> while like all. But there will be also a continuation with the description of characters and subject scenes. Possibility for creation 3D a tele-serial.>> idea and Erdenko Alexander's concept. qw-er@mail.ru
I037.radikal.ru
Arts hot-pix
Арты с пылу-с жару...
Ekzo-Skeleton and suport droid prototype
Экзо-скелет и прототип дроида поддеожки.
I064.radikal.ru
S003.radikal.ru
S004.radikal.ru
S005.radikal.ru
ZegriDoom-class monster
Монстрик-Зегридум
S57.radikal.ru
Hover-plan "Zarya-001"
Гравиплан Заря-001.
S43.radikal.ru
S005.radikal.ru
Photo to girlfriend
Фото девушке
I077.radikal.ru

Last concept ideas.
The shuttle of O-consciousness "Shambhala-S1", is invisible to a radar and air defence, the combined power-plant with possibility of hyper-jumps, height of flight of 150 km and depth of immersing of 1500 m, self-directed rockets on any purposes, 40мм четырехствольная a gun with an explosive and cumulative ammunition, nano-hihitin the self-restored case, a power protective field, a pilotless mode, an adaptive camouflage, cruiser speed to 2800 км.час
>>>>>> S14.radikal.ru
>>> S47.radikal.ru
>>> S51.radikal.ru
>>> I074.radikal.ru
>>>>>> Protective 12 metre perimetre of the Zone of the countries of the NATO.
>>> I077.radikal.ru

I suggest to make 4 parts of game or a film.
>>> 1st hit of the protagonist in a zone and creation of the command 5-10 people (the Survival war with the military CIS and the NATO, gangsters, with others сталкерами and monsters). Capture of bases, warehouses, structures, the territory control. Trade in artefacts, monsters and equipment. FROM five groupings stalkers will survive 2-3. Well вобщем on a gameplay the dynamical insurgent with the weapon from arbalets to machine guns and bazuka. Many friends perish, special tactics will be necessary.
>>> 2nd part. A meeting with shimonk Serafim. Carrying out its councils to establish an armistice with all groupings for the general reflexion of attacks of monsters and fanatics of O-consciousness of grouping "Monolith". Forces of the NATO and gangsters will oppose to it. Creation of perimetre of a wall and building of the complexes лабараторий and workshops. For successful protection of perimetre
>>> financial assets from the governments and equipment will come. There will be great sums of money and it is possible upgrade labs and workshops. Number of personal grouping will grow till 40-50 the person with technicians and scientists. Creation of new types of weapon, the reservation, transport. For small time of relative stability it will be necessary to have time to make every possible upgrades. Gradually there will be search an information on communication of a secret box "Trident" and events in the Zone. But behind a wall of perimetre of the Zone again will survive attacks of cyber-monsters and a sortie of special troops of "Monolith" will uneasy begin. On it the second part comes to an end.
>>> in 3rd part there will be a huge emission which almost will destroy a wall of perimetre and staff of groupings. Then occurrence of soaring Nebilona and a hole-precipice with three levels of nano-factories. At песонажей not had time to make an upgrade of suits of protection the roof will start to go and they gradually become zombie Nebilona. Others will have a depression and hysterics.
>>> with few survived it will be necessary to carry out storm-atack of nano-factories and will fall on the third level to a teleport portal. On it the end of the third part.
>>> in 4th part there will be a capture of the soaring city of Nebilon and destruction of 18 members of comprehension. As a result having received documents confirming world plot and preparation of the world for arrival antihrist and supertechnologies of Nebilons the protagonist goes to smash the centres of a box "Trident" worldwide.
The Slogan: "you Give Russian of Avatars"

Need help to find developer team or Publishing Company]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:35 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=859643 Posted By: Compleks
Post Time: 03-03-2010 at 06:00 AM
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Hey everyone,

Thanks for checking out the post. Simply put, I'm having some trouble developing a story.

The assignment:
For my 2-d Animation class, I have to create a short animation that tells a story. The story doesn’t have to be elaborate; it just has to have a beginning, middle, and end. The entire animation will probably be about 40-60 seconds long to give you an idea of the time frame I’m working with.

This is my first attempt at creating a short. Any suggestions/pointers/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Here's one idea I had for a comedy short. It's very rough, so anything can be added, taken out, or changed

One day, a curious boy exploring the woods near his house stumbles upon a small wreckage (illustrated as a small pile of metal scraps and tangled wires). The boy wonders what it is and what business it has in the woods. Being a curious fellow, he brings the pile of scraps home and places it in the corner of his room, next to his robot posters. While he’s sleeping at night, the pile begins to transform.

When the boy wakes up, the pile is no longer a mound of scraps, but a metallic entity in mid-transformation. The boy jumps out of his bed and watches attentively. The entity slowly begins shaping itself – first an arm, then a head... With each passing moment, the figure becomes more identifiable. (The transformation scene would be very long and exaggerated. I want to make it to look and feel as dramatic as possible; powerful movements, vivid colors, and over-the-top ideas).

The dramatic transformation finally finishes and reveals a futuristic-looking robot. The boy can barely contain his excitement while he waits for the robot to do something. Moments pass but the robot remains motionless. More time passes; the boy’s confusion grows. The massive grin on the boy face gradually shrinks. There is a long awkward silence. The boy walks over to the robot and presses the various buttons located on its chest one by one in attempts to get a response, but they all do nothing. The boy gently taps the robot on the shoulder and causes it to fall over with a loud *smash*.

The animation then suddenly cuts to a scene of the boy throwing the robot away in the trash.

The animation cuts to another scene of a different boy in a junk yard looking at the robot.

END
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I wanted the story to illustrate the feeling you get when you finally get something you’ve wanted for a long time and discover that it's completely different from what you expected. I guess its depressing comedy. The transformation builds the robot up to be something amazing but in actuality is a useless hunk of metal.


I’m unsure if the story really works or not. I feel like it doesn't quite “hit” as hard as I'd like it to.

I had another idea for the ending of the story where the robot actually does communicate with the boy. After the transformation process, the robot powers up to greet the boy with a slap to the face (or something disrespectful). The robot right off the bat gets on the boy nerves. The scene cuts the boy taking a can full of scraps to the dumpster (suggesting he destroyed it). The last scene would be of another boy finding the scraps somewhere (connecting the end with the beginning).


So that’s what I have so far for ideas. I’m really open to anything.

Thanks!

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:00:27 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=858457 Posted By: MichalOgorek
Post Time: 02-27-2010 at 04:43 PM
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here are few my storyboards for ad agency.


By michal_ogorek at 2010-02-27



By michal_ogorek at 2010-02-27


By michal_ogorek at 2010-02-27


By michal_ogorek at 2009-07-28]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:43:37 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=852404 Posted By: KoalitionComics
Post Time: 02-09-2010 at 07:16 PM
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Hi Folks, here is a collection of screenshots from the comic series I've been creating for the last 6 months.
I'm looking for feedback on my storytelling, humor and the site in general.

Each screenshot is a direct link to the episode it's from, for your convenience:








Thanks very much, and enjoy!
-D.Houry]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:16:19 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=842402 Posted By: spades
Post Time: 01-13-2010 at 04:47 PM
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Hi all,

I'm working on creating a web-based video program which content involves news, interviews and coverage of events. I have no experience in the planning and production of a project like this.

Does anyone know of any books or resources that can help prepare me for organizing the work needed to be done?

Anyone help would be appreciated.

Thanks]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:47:37 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=840674 Posted By: thundering1
Post Time: 01-07-2010 at 09:17 PM
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Hello CGTalkers-

Just getting a discussion started about storyboards. Yes, this started with a little debate between friends.

What level of storyboarding do you normally see for mid to low budget movies without elaborate shots or much in the way of FX. Trying to think of an example here, so maybe in my head what we're talking about is something akin to (in way of story, stunts, and FX needs) maybe Practical Magic, Medicine Man (yes, I realize these are big budget movies with name casts), Near Dark, Get Carter, Identity, etc.

NOT the likes of the Underworld series (where almost every shot has an effect), or say Kramer vs. Kramer (pure modern drama - no stunts and effects). I'm talking about movies that have SOME notable stunts, and SOME notable FX.

Do you see every shot storyboarded in pre-production down to every angle of two people talking at a table, or totally shooting from the hip.

Does it depend on the director, the producer, the studio wanting to see EVERYTHING they are being asked to pay for, or giving carte blanche to an established director (or producer)?

Do you see too MUCH storyboarding, or not nearly enough? What do you wish for, for yourselves, in whichever field you're working in for the movie/TV/webisode/home movie industry?

What are strengths, or weaknesses, you find with either side of the thought?

What would your advice for storyboarding be for a new company with absolutely no money, trying to make their first feature - yes, that's us. Not even gonna try and hide that one - I'm both looking for advice for us, as well as something for our debate here.

I'm not entirely sure I'm wording this right, but I hope you get the point, and join in the thread to give your experiences and opinions.

Take care-

-Lew]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:17:17 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=838615 Posted By: CKPinson
Post Time: 12-31-2009 at 02:23 AM
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Where's a good place to buy or get a written script or writer?]]> Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:23:58 +0000