Cranston, why are you crying?

The above title has nothing to do with anything.  It's a quote from 30 ROCK, and because I did a thing on Bryan Cranston, I now have it stuck in my head.

Anyway, speaking of which, head on over to that button above that says 'Concept Art' and look at the first drawing.  That was the original design for the sign post at the start.  Now head on down the page and check out the new sign post design.  IT'S THE LONG JOKE FROM EARLIER THIS MONTH!  Aww, it's nice to see it there.  You;d be best right clicking it and selecting "Open In New Tab" to get the full effect.  As I've written, thats concept art, and the actual sign post would be better, with more variety to the signs and stuff.  At the moment its literally the one sign just duplicated 16-17 times.  There was a brief mention by Daz-Dawg a while back that it could be done in Maya to give it a good angled look, but we'll talk.  If that ends up being the case, I'll ask maybe Jack, possibly someone like Mundy-Man to help me with it.

Anyway, nearly done with thumbnails.  I'm gonna do storyboards digitally, although that will mean finding my Wacom pen at home...  It could be in my room...  But my room is a bomb site...  It'll be exactly the same as finding a needle in a haystack...  I'm boned.

BYE NOW

Layouty Concepty Big-Heady Drawings...y.

Hello.
Head on over to the concept art page and have a look at some new stuff.   I've done a drawing of The Inspector looking up.  I've since decided it looks like he has a big head.  There's also a quick rendition of the bats in the piano hall.

I drew this pretty picture with the new Wacom, so I decided to show it off here.  I call it "Awww cute doggy...  DEAD DOGGY!"

Six seasons and a movie!

Jarrod.


Ps - Neale is not my wife.

Concept Art, Dr. Phil, and why I need a Dr now.

Hello.  If you head on over to my 'Concept Art' page, you'll see the final design of The Inspector.  I think he looks a lot more like he sounds in the script, and he has awesome eyebrows, reminiscint (spelling?) of The Swedish Chef from The Muppets.  There's also a picture of a minion.

There's also a concept art version of the break room in which The Minion Devils will be watching "Dr. Phil".  3 will be sitting on the couch watching it, and another will come in from the left with cookies.  The one in the middle will be repeating "I'm Dr. Phil" in a terrible Dr. Phil voice.  That may not be funny to you, but I promise you that my sister will howl with laughter.

I need a Doctor, because I have a terribly sore shoulder.  I think it was from doing some puppetry stuff on Monday.  It's making my whole arm hurt.  Poor me.

Video Block, Music and Thumbnails.

In Jack's class today I did my video block.  It was quite quickly done.  It's alright.

Had a look at some music as well just before.  I liked 2 different pieces of music.  One was more Hell-ish, the other was more humorous.  So Mund-dawg came up with the idea of using the Hell-ish music during the opening, and as it begins to pan down the big sign, it changes to the more humorous one when it gets to the "Health Spa" joke and the Bryan Cranston joke.  He's a clever guy, that Sean Mundy.

I've done some thumbnails, and I'm gonna do some more in Neale's class this arvo.

I still need to work on voices.  Ben Stein.

Some Stuff That Ive Doned

Yes, that's right.  I wrote doned.  Deal with it!   ---   I'm so white.

I've basically designed The Inspector now.  He looks a lot different to how he looks in the concept art on here.  I'll get a picture up ASAP, as well as a whole heap of other designs I did for him.

The shot list is still getting sorted out a bit.  I wrote a quick thing for it this morning, now I need to edit it in Word, which I might do when I finish this post.

The script is locked in.  In the next few weeks I want to do a rough soundtrack.  I'm still deciding on voices.  I'm still 99% sure I'm going to do The Inspector.  I feel like he'd have a Ben Stein voice.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA  That's Ben Stein.  I need to work on my Ben Stein voice...  Ben Stein.

There's also little minions.  They'll be walking in the background, very simply animated.  Their main role is the shot with the roller coaster.  Maybe one hammering in the last sign on the sign post in the opening gag.

Can it please be holidays now?





... Ben Stein.

Production Proof

At the moment, I'm doing my production proof, figuring out all the elements, what I will and won't need, specifically for the shot of The Inspector falling through the crack in the ground.  I spent a couple of hours in Photoshop creating this image.  It's also going to go into the "Concept Art" page.
Cheers!

Shot List and Daz-Dawg and Motherfu

I did the shot list today.  I put on some rough timing estimates, so I had some idea of how long it'd be.  It's running at about 92 seconds, which includes 13 seconds for the Breaking Bad sign joke.  Once I've done a rough recording of the sound I'll have more of an idea of timing!

Also, Darren 'Daz-Dawg' Bell has graciously offered to give me a hand with the backgrounds.  That means less work for me, and he's good at that stuff so we're ready and raring to go!

I've added a bit at the end after The Inspector ascends to Heaven.  There is a close up of Lucifer's legs, he stomps his foot again, and yells out 'MOTHERFU--" and then we cut to black.

I'm gonna call this thing "Horologium Arborium (Time of Trees)"

Scriptingness and a Joke Idea That Could Take Way Too Long

Draft 3 is now up.  I've gotten rid of the Ashton Kutcher reference.  And the Joey reference.  And the Joanie loves Chachi reference.  I did insert a Dr Phil reference, but I think losing 3 and gaining 1 isn't too bad!

Otherwise it's pretty much the same.  In the shot with the signs, I'm trying to think of a different joke to take over from the 'Frankie Muniz's Career' one.  I'm probably going to go all Looney Toons style and have a really long sign, with the following gag:

The sign begins panning from the top down.  A new line indicates a different sign.

FIRE PIT --->

DEADLY SNAKES --->

DEMON DOG --->

<--- HEALTH SPA

<--- EVERYONE FROM 'MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE'S' CAREER

BESIDES THE DAD

HE'S IN BREAKING BAD

MAN, HOW GOOD IS BREAKING BAD?

WHAT'S HIS NAME AGAIN?

BRYAN SOMETHING?

CRANBERRIES?

CRANSTON!

BRYAN CRANSTON

ANYWAY...

WHERE WERE WE?

OH YEAH.  HELL.