Animation Status

Unfortunately, blogger is acting up.. and I want to make sure that you have part of my animation So to you (Professor Delao) I put what I have in the dropbox!

More Backgrounds!

Here are some more that I plan on using!

Backgrounds

Here are some backgrounds I'm going to incorporate in my Flash! I took pictures around Savannah and I like some of them soo much that I decided to use them as my backgrounds!! Here are some of them! Enjoy!

Some Prior Sketches

Here are some sketches I was playing around with before i changed my mind to make the main characters these dog-like characters!

Character sheets

Here are my two character sheets! I wanted to keep them simple characters and when I did my jump tutorial, I've found that I really enjoyed animating him and wouldnt mind doing it again.. so instead of using humanoid characters, Ive decided to make them into this dog-like character instead which I think is wayy cuter!

Raguel:

Lailah:

Storyboard Baby!

Well here's the idea of what I want my animation to look like! Hope it comes out well in the end! haha

Narrator's Lines

Here is the Narrator's sound clip I'm going to be using in my animation. Since the Narrator's lines would take up too much time for the audience to read, I'd figure I record my good friend Sean Moreno to speak the Narrator's part in the script! It seemed like actually having a speaker talk instead of just having the lines typed and basically subtitling them without a speaker would not read as well as having an actual speaker! And I'm was pretty honored that my friend agreed to helping me out! Plus,in my opinion, believe he did an awesome job with it despite the fact that the lines were a little cheesy! lol But well from the many versions that was recorded, I believe this one was the better of the best! Hope you enjoy!

Script!

SCRIPT:

Narrator’s lines: Once upon a time, there once was an angel named Raguel whose purpose was to oversee the good behavior of other angels. One day, he was given the assignment of looking after a charge named Lailah. He thought nothing of it than just another job he was to fulfill. Over time he began to see the growth of this charge and to his dismay, she was unlike all the rest. She was kind, thoughtful, courageous, and did anything she could to protect the ones she loved. After observing her day after day, he couldn’t help but develop feelings for her despite the fact that she was a human mortal no less?! But he knew it could never be..

Before he was created the world was engulfed in darkness due to the underlying essence of evil that consumed the hearts of mankind’s souls..

In order to bring balance back to this world, God created the Guardian Angels to help free mankind from this destructive influence and help guide them to a brighter future.

But these Guardian Angels’s had one rule; they could never physically interact with mankind. If an Angel ever were to do so, that angel would have to make the decision to sever his wings to then walk the earth as a mortal..

Making such a decision was not only a disgrace to the Angel Race but also to God himself! As punishment, the former angel could never regain the title of being an Angel and til the end of time, walk the remainder of his days as mortal.

Raguel knew he could never break the rules of severing his wings… the possibility of her loving him back was impossible.. So all he could ever do was watch her from afar.. in which he was content with that fact.. Until one day…

Scenes:
Scene 1---While the Narrator is speaking, all that will be shown is a book opening up to page to page to help tell the story a little better visually. Like shot of world being dark Raguel watching over Lailah.

Scene 2---At the end of the Narrator speaking, it will then cut out to the final scene of Raguel watching over Lailah.

Scene 3---While she is walking across the street she does notice a car coming down the street.

Scene 4---In order to save her life, Raquel then quickly without hesitation, runs towards her.

Scene 5---Then cut to a scene in which wings are being scattered everywhere to indicate hime making the decision to become mortal so that he could physically move her out of the way without being hit.

Scene 6---Raguel jumping and pushing Lailah out of the way in time.

Scene 7---Raguel over her and her smiling.

The End--Credits

Sound Effects:

Underlying faint melody being played in the background to help move the story along. It would possibly be of the song from Nightwish-Nemo, Within Temptation-Angels, or a plain melody found online.

My Schedule

Here is my schedule that I tried to work off of in trying to complete my projects and animation. I did the best of my ability to follow it, but of course, like with any other schedule I did have to make some adjustments along the way!

Since it's just a little hard to read..it'll basically go a lil something like this:

Week 5:

Play around with concept ideas for final.

Week 6:

Start Sketching Ideas for final.

Continue to develope the general concept idea.

Week 7:

Have some more sketches completed

Finish developing the general concept idea.

Week 8:

Finish Premise

Finish the walking puppet and the schedule.

Finish the dialogue piece and have the character sheet done.

Finish the storyboard

Week 9:

Start on the Backgrounds

Finish the backgrounds

Start Animating Each Scene

Week 10:

Keep on working on the things that need to be completed.

Finish up tweeks, and post everything in the dropbox and on blogger.

Have EVERYTHING COMPLETED hopefully…

My updated/revised Premise!

Here is a revision of my Premise I had did but forgot to publish.. sorry its a lil late but here it is at least!! Enjoy! :)

The Revised Premise:

Boy Guardian Angel who while looking over his charge fell in love with her to the point as to where he wanted to make himself known to her. But he can only do so if he severs his wings which is a great sin among the Angel Society. He would then in turn no longer become immortal and become mortal, and forever be banished from the Angel Society… the twist is, is that she has never met him before yet he would seem familiar to him.. but would it work out if he sacrificed everything just to meet her face to face? Should he sever his wings just for the chance to physically meet her…

She feels as though someone is watching her.. She turns to look over her shoulder but in her mortal eyes.. she see’s nothing.. while he stands there watching her with a slight frown on his face to indicate that he is unhappy. And him knowing that she might never see or realize he exists and that he’s been protecting her for all her life yet she will never know about him..

But maybe the power of wish can be strong enough to break that spell even if for a second..

Could also have the subplot of if the council ever found out about his secret love for his charge.. he would be banished from Heaven... So he in turn protects her while constantly being aware of his emotions when reacting towards discussing her well being. And maybe though some things he cant stop from happening.. like if it were fate that she had to die.. he might have to intervene to stop her from dying which is another rule he could break to get him banished from the society.

Possibly use the song Nightwish Nemo or Angels Within Temptation

Other ideas
Start off with storybook thing where instead of animating characters first scene all I have to animate is the book turning to page after page and then for the final scene animate main guy character removing his wings to save main girl character from getting hit by a car. And then him being are you ok and then turns to girl with surprise look then becoming very happy and the both look into each others eyes and they kiss/ or jus blacks out to the end.

I also looked up Angel names that came with descriptions?! So found that I like these ones the best maybe I’ll use them!

Lailah
Angel of Conception
angel of the night who watches over spirits at from conception to birth

Raguel
Angel of God
oversees good behaviour of other angels

Galgaliel
Angel of Vibration
govens the wheel of the sun and assists us in removing barriors.

Running time: 2 minutes.. possible 3.. it more depends on time..

My lil walk cycle..

Here is the cut-out walk cycle I did for my tutorial! I wondering why it looks soo familiar?! lol I also had some fun and made a very painter-like background that I thought would be cool! I had fun making it.. so I like it at least! haha

Hey Hey Hey

Hey Hey Hey!! I just wanted to appologize for me being sooo absent this quarter!!! It's like I basically dropped off the face of the earth or something from not posting like I should.. oops.. But I'm real sorry.. I've just been swamp with so many problems at the moment it's been ridiculous?!?!? But I will say that though I havent been updating.. I have been working very hard!!! So now that I have some time I'm going to upload the stuff that I probably should have done so along time ago.. ugh... but better late then never I always say! haha :P

The Correct Rotoscope

After taking a good look at the rotoscope that I had published earlier... I had realized I published the wrong one.. sorry for the confusion but here's the correct one!