Project 5 - 6 -7 and 8 - Preparation for a Short Animation Movie

I will here upload 4 connected school projekt, preparation for a short animation movie. Title for my project is:

Professor Geekenstein`s Spacelab

Projekt 5 - The Treatment:

PROFESSOR GEEKENSTEIN`S SPACELAB – SHORT

By Alf Inge Moseid, Tordenskjoldgt.33, 4612 Kristiansand, Norway

North-Norway 16 august 2018, early in the morning. FLAMES and SMOKE surrounding a spaceship with alien’s onboard when it drops into the atmosphere in high speed. A couple of load EXPLOSION sound roll between the wild mountains before the spaceship slow down the speed and near stop up in the air. PROFESSOR GEEKENSTEIN, 29, and his wife JELLY, 28, disagree if they should say yes or no to invite the alien to their space-lab and when they discuss this outside their private space lab, the spaceship show up and landing near them. They run and hide behind a rock. A port open on the spaceship and a strange looking ALIEN show up and stand in silent a moment with his right hand on a gun hanging on his belt. Alien start walking to them and stop up near the rock. He turns slowly the large head and his oval shape large black eyes searching the landscape. Alien body seem thin and skin on face and hands look light. He does not have outstanding nose and ears like humans.

A CROW starts SCREAM when passing the rock and alien turn fast around when he pull the gun and pointing it to them! Alien lift also his left arm and point first at them and then on the ground between him and the rock where they hiding. They stand up with hands up to show they don’t have any guns, and walking to where the alien have pointed. When stand there the alien lower his gun and he telling them with left hand that they can put down their hands and relaxing because he is friendly. Alien asking them for help to find a kind of key they lost on earth many years ago in the past. This key is important for him and his alien friends to solved one of the mysteries in the universe and to track up a large treasure.

They agree to help the alien and alien telling them they will get a part of the treasure as thanks for their help. He pulls up an old map and pointing the finger on a red cross on the map and then pointing at them and the spaceship.

Alien look at them for long and they all turn around and start to walk to the spaceship, to the beginning of a treasure hunt full of adventures and action. Spaceship have takeoff with them and vanishing up in the air. Short time after the crow come and sits down on the rock, and screams again!

Projekt 6 - The Story Board:

Projekt 7 - The 2D Animatic:


2D animatic is build up on 43 frames from the storyboard from this projects. You can see the arrows there show directions of camera, movements on human, wehicle, animal etc. It is in black and white and with some soundeffects. It is really no need for color on a 2D Animatic since it is only a tool for making the real final movie. I did not add arrows for light this time in storyboard and this 2D Animatic because it is a clothy day with no sunshine and near the ocean. Light is then spred everywhere. 2D anitmatic can be a good and useful tool to get a view, I like the idea about this :-)

Click here for see the 2D Animatic on Youtube ( 3D -Pre Wiz movie is also located there in Youtube)



Projekt 8 - The 3D Wiz:

The image of the spaceship upon here is a snapshot from the 3D Wiz short movie I just finish with. This movie is not a final product of a animation movie, but a tool for us to use wen we will start make the final movie later on.

This "easy" 3D wiz movie I learned plenty of when I made it and will be usefull when I start to make details and changes later on. Like this screenshot of the alien space ship on the way down to the Professor Geekensteins Island where he have his private space laboratorium. The 3D landscape down there in the ocean was to heavy for my machine to render out so in the 3D pre-wiz movie I used only some parts of the landing scene. I have 6 Gb ram in my fast machine, but this scene consume 5,8 Gb still if every models and characters and landscape are running with low polygon solution. So I need to double the Ram in the machine before I can start make the high solution scenes of this.

I just add one of the images here on this oblig 8 because it is many of the same images I also used in making story board and 2 D animatic and can be seen there.

It will be a link to click on here to see the 3D Pre Wiz movie on YouTube today. Hope you like it. As you can see on the Treatment, Storyboard , 2D Animatic and this short movie they are going on treasurehunt with a alien droping down from space.

The Characters and scene I made up for this project, plenty job for sure..