Thanks for your ideas on the alien abduction story I was conisdering earlier. I thinking of possibly expanding this story into a short film if I can get a few interesting and unique plot twists figured into it. It’s not the same story as you though up, but I tried to apply the same basic idea (learning from your input rather than steeling your ideas 
). I think there needs to be a lot more interest in the story… Here’s what I’ve come up with so far that seems to be a functional story, all be it a very short animation at this point… I’d appreciate your feedback and input so far;
Alien Abduction story
Interior of home seen through camera with strange readouts and markings, switching to different views such as x-ray, infrared, etc. Intro should be long enough to insert opening credits and title sequence with fade in and fade out of views of different rooms.
The scene changes from the view of the home through the scope to a shot of a space ship that can be seen through the living room window, appearing to be at a long distance from the home.
As the mother leaves the room, the camera moves in on the ship slowly as the ship approaches (dramatic music) and then the ship appears to start to turn and we see that it is now in the house and is actually a very small ship.
We return to the scope and begin to target certain items, beginning with a set of car keys, taken from the dining room table. The ship continues on to other rooms and re-deposits the keys onto a coffee table where they pick up another item. This time it is a TV remote with the words Universal Remote on it. In the background we hear the father say has anyone seen my car keys? They were just here.
Inside the alien ship, we see a screen with an image of the car keys being cataloged, followed by the remote. We finally see the small aliens as they examine the remote and curiously push buttons. The lights in the ship change and flash as the buttons are pushed and the aliens all say oooohhh with interest and amazement.
They deposit the remote beside some baby toys along their way as they pick up a cell phone which they examine as they move into the kitchen. The father comes in and says I cant believe this
I still cant find my keys and now my cell phone is gone and I need to call in and tell the boss Ill be late! The mother replies Just use the house phone, Im sure your cell phone will turn up, as she continues to search the house for the keys.
The mother says Well here are your car keys on the coffee table. Did you check the kitchen for your phone? in the background as the aliens are viewing the cell phone in their ship. Pressing buttons, we hear someone saying Hello!? in a foreign accent after having inadvertently dialed an international number.
The ship re-enters the living room where the 2 year old is playing with some toys and sees the tiny ship. The ship puts down the cell phone and intends to continue on, not having noticed the child. The child, seeing all the flashing lights on the low hovering shiny metal ship, grabs it out of the air thinking its a toy. The giddy child begins shaking the toy sized ship violently, enamored with the changing lights. Well, the father says from another room, it sounds like kiddos having a good day at least. The mother replies, Well, you have your keys. Youd better get going. Ill keep an eye open for your phone. After a brief silence, the mother says Honey, where did you put the TV remote?
Inside the ship we see the fear stricken aliens being bounced around inside their ship as warning lights flash on and off and sirens blare. The sirens can barely be heard outside of the ship as the child tosses the small ship to the ground after having lost interest. The aliens, regrouping and now quite angry, drop the phone, still on the international call with someone speaking a foreign language on it and put up the Death-Ray canon and begin to chuckle malevolently as they slowly approach the child.
The child finds the Universal remote on the floor and picks it up and begins pressing buttons as he turns around to see tiny ship with the big gun. The ship suddenly stops cold and the canon spins around a few times and the ship begins to shake violently, as if it was having an earthquake.
Inside the ship, the confused aliens start trying to compensate by working their controls. The child continues to press buttons and the ship continues to respond. After a short time, the ship jerkily moves through the air and then begins to bounce off the walls and then gets shot out the window.
Just as the ship leaves back out through the open window, the mother walks in and finds the cell phone and ends the call and then spots the 2 year old with the TV remote. The child says something incomprehensible and points out the window. The mother says I cant leave you alone for 5 minutes, can I?
I really appreciate all the help. The alien characters I’ve got in mind are not sinister or mean spirited, just curious and youthful characters. My initial sketches of the characters look a bit like a sweet gherkin pickle with octopus tentacle and
well, Ill upload a sketch later. I just have a hard time putting something like this together with my schedule (Im trying to run my own 3D studio, I work a 40 hour a week job, and I do real estate investments
not a lot of free time when you factor in the wife and kids).
Thanks again
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). I think there needs to be a lot more interest in the story… Here’s what I’ve come up with so far that seems to be a functional story, all be it a very short animation at this point… I’d appreciate your feedback and input so far;
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))). Any input you can offer would be greatly appreciated, since this project is getting to be a bigger and bigger and it’s soon going to be too much for me to handle neatly (with my limited experience).