Beat Sheet for bigger Animation - Andrew Foden

THE BEAT SHEET

The theme is The Fool Triumphant.

Setup
There are 2 super soldiers from different countries - a James Bond type of guy, and a russian Rambo kind of guy.

Catalyst
Evil guy makes an address to the worlds leaders that he will blow up the world in a 8 days if his demands aren't met. Both soldiers are told by their bosses that an evil genius is going to blow up the world from his underwater cave lair, and 2 super soldiers need to stop him before the missiles are fired.

Debate
Debate between the 2 super soldiers about how to stop the evil villain. James Bond-type wants to use stealth and cunning by sneaking in, while Rambo guy wants to go in all guns blazing.

Break into act 2
Evil guy makes an address to the world that he will blow up the world in a week if his demands aren't met. He blows something up to show hes serious.

B story
Evil villain is going ahead with plan and how. Shows them starting the missile countdown.

Fun & Games
Both super soldiers get in some practice on infiltrating a secret lair in their way.

Midpoint
James Bond-style supersoldier infiltrates lair in little boat and finds out where the missile launch stop button is.

Bad guys close in
Bond guy is caught by the bad guys.

All is lost
Bond guy is on the lazer table getting ready to be killed by the evil guy. Everyone thinks all is lost and the bad guy has won.

Dark night of the soul
Missiles launch and everyone thinks that it is the end of the world.

Break into act 3
Russian Rambo flies out of the water in the lair with a jetpack and starts beating bad guys with miniguns. He flies into the room, beats the bad guys and saves the other super soldier from the lazer table.

Finale - Partners reconcile
Saved guy thanks the Rambo guy and they stop the missiles before they explode and everyone has a big party.

I especially like the idea of the big party!

Rambo guy has got to have a bandanna on his head!

And James Bond guy has got to have a British accent!

Coolio!

One change I'm going to make is that the bad guy is now going to be some evil fisherman/sailor guy who is going to use the missiles to melt the ice caps and flood the planet so that he can rule the world with his battleships and submarines. The james bond guy could get captured with a fish net.

The bad guy has to have a crazy moustache, and if he's a fisherman.....waders

Here is the storyboard for my animation.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9578/startd.swf

This is the start of my animation. It's a bit fast, but I'll finish it first before making it longer, or it may not fit into a minute and thirty.


Btw, I tried to upload an animatic, but I've had no luck on youtube or photobucket.


Also, I'm going to need a name for my james bond guy, If anyone can help me with it, I'd be really glad because I can't think of anything.

haha foden that is really really good up to now, mine just isnt haha D:

foden uve done it again xD, its awesome

thanks

I've started colouring stuff in, and I've changed a few things to make it easier to follow.

I've put some rockets at the start to show what is being fired, they hit the helicopter which blows up, and he jumps out. I've made the helicopter scene longer.

I wasn't planning on showing anyone in particular firing at him at the start, but now I have some evil ninja samurais who he's going to blow up and defeat.

http://img710.imageshack.us/i/startcolour1.swf/

Direct link/Full screen: http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8896/startcolour1.swf

So there you go, more to come.

hahaha i love it foden, its really good

thanks burrows

Well, I've had a lot of trouble with the explosion, so I've just tweened a explodey thing getting bigger, just use your imagination a bit lol.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8896/startcolour1.swf

Next I'm going to have him parachute over the explosion, have the title sequence there, and then cut to him landing and taking a video call from his boss.

foden this is amazing my friend

wow that is truely awesome! I'm very confused at the entire thing (ninja? XD) but it looks great and its smooth! Keep up the great work ^^

starting to see where it's going now, looks good

@Sean - haha, it's just meant to be one of those little action sequences at the start of action movies, and the ninjas are just random evil guys. :P Story hasn't really started yet lol. I was gonna just have it go from him jumping out of the helicopter and shooting the screen, and then just going to the main title, but it would just seem weird and random that way.

thanks guys :)

Fantastic!

I love the stereo-types and can't wait to hear some awesome voice acting, if any...

nice pictures, and that animation bit looks amazing

thanks guys =]

This is the walk cycle for my british guy. I'm gonna draw over it using my tablet when I get home.

Works really well foden, im sure that will look good in your animation.

Shame mines terrible haha

Thanks sean, and yours isn't terrible lol.

Thought I'd put up another development post to show what I've gotten up to.

It's taking ages but I'm starting on the story now lol.

It has a name now, some things have been shortened, more has been coloured and there's an MI6 guy with a dodgy moustache (when it jiggles, he's meant to be talking lol).

The guy is blond now to fit with his name.

Smaller: http://img693.imageshack.us/i/startcolour1.swf/

Bigger: http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/8896/startcolour1.swf

Its looking great Andy!

Just be carefull with the timing of the animation, it seem's to run through very quickly and the title needs to stay on longer so the viewer can read it clearly, apart from that its looking really good

That is absolutely fantastic, Marry me?

haha that is ridiculously good

that really good andy !! made me laff

Large - http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8896/startcolour1.swf