THESIS TIME: The Storyboarding Begins!

And it all begins now: storyboarding that is!  Here's a sneak peek!

I feel like recently my facial expressions and body language while working on thesis has been starting to mimick the little girl's movements more and more... 

Shady Business: Getting Ready for the MICA show!

I shaded in a couple of my Firenze frames and since the MICA exhibition of our SACI work is going to go up on Monday I figured I'd post them up here in case anyone would like to see.  I didn't get around to finishing all, but here is a little taste!

It's a little different from the original storyboard I put up earlier in March, because I'm trying to get the storyboard to flow better.  I guess I thought the previous one was more jumpy?  [Like how I used arrows to show movement when I should have just drawn the truck in two different places in two of the earlier shaded panels.]  Anyways, let me know what you all think! 

Coloring Gluttony

I've been trying to translate my Firenze storyboards into digital drawings:

 But while I've been working on that I've also been working on coloring in the "Gluttony Cupcake" that I worked on earlier in the summer!  Usually I avoid coloring in photoshop because color tends to terrify me, but I thought that I should experiment and try.  So, here goes!  It's not done yet, but here's a few versions of them in the early stages:
 

Reworking

I tried to rework certain Firenze shots.  After doing these I came to the conclusion that I'm probably not going to use any of these, but I did have a lot of fun drawing the little guy on the moped.  It made me want a moped; kind of. 

SNEAK PEEK! [Some] Actual Storyboards for the Firenze Story!

This weekend was spent organizing my drawings/ putting them into Photoshop and typing up what's going on in the story.  It was a very productive weekend!!!  Here's a link to the previous post that shows some potential storyboards: http://skujubu.blogspot.com/2011/03/potential-storyboards-for-firenze-story.html 

I've put up all the storyboards that I've completed so far on my animatedbuzz account: http://animatedbuzz.com/profile/skujubu so please check it out if you have time!!!

These first two storyboards are the first of the story. 

 The storyboards below got turned into an animation/ animatic, but I'm currently having trouble loading videos onto Vimeo from Italy so please bear with me.  I'll get it up soon!  I didn't notice it until now, but I'm also thinking that the first storyboard on the page below [to the very left] needs to be panned out and the view the same as the view used in the other two panels on the page.  Otherwise it looks too confusing.  Agree? Disagree?  Other suggestions as to how I can resolve any confusion that might be going on, please let me know!

Here's the Flash I attempted-- I think this is the first time I've drawn directly into Flash [without tracing a drawing beneath it], so this was definitely a learning experience.  It was a lot of fun to work on, although the second half is still in keyframe form-- I have to get on that, but I accomplished what I set out to do; communicate the car's motion.  I feel so accomplished, haha.  Also, if anyone has an innovative, interesting title please holler at me.  Until then, ciao ciao!!!

Potential Storyboards for Firenze Story!

They're rough and out of order but here's two pages of potential storyboards that I'll use for the Firenze story I've been working on!  [I posted sketches and some drawings that are going into the storyboards earlier: http://skujubu.blogspot.com/2011/03/going-going-going.html]  Hip, hip, hooray for progress!!!

Storyboards for The Baker!!!

So here's a few storyboards from 'The Baker'!!!  [Aaaaaaand the video so you can see where those scenes were from!  I didn't know how to make previous post of 'The Baker' move to the beginning of my blog... So I'm reposting!]

The Baker from Sarah Kujubu on Vimeo.

Sketches for Firenze Story

I'm taking Steph's suggestion and am shooting to storyboard up until where the girl gets to the market to sell her carrots.  SO-- here's what I've been up to so far with my preparatory sketches for my storyboards~

It's really fun drawing these and they help SO much.  Comments, constructive criticism, and love is appreciated!

a hopeful trend?

I really got into doing some drawing of potential places for my little grocery truck to drive down.  BUT I feel like I should start from the beginning:

Inspiration has struck and I have begun to storyboard/ animate!  Kind of.  It's better than nothing and it's been making me happy.  The rough story focuses on a woman/ girl whose job is to deliver produce/ things in her little produce/ grocery truck: [basing my produce/grocery truck design off of the ones I see at the market all the time]: 

I also went to the Sant' Ambrogio market to do some car studies:

 So the rough story so far goes like this:  

• Grocery truck flies down the street [produce bouncing everywhere]
• bounds down another street and we're able to see girl's harried face
• BATTLES IT OUT WITH ANOTHER CAR FOR ROAD SPACE

• Girl's produce car makes a stop in front of a market with umbrellas poking out of the stands: lots of bustle
• animate people/ figures walking past
• record crowd noises somehow

•  Show girl unloading from truck and haggling with vendors: exchange money
• Battle thief who tries to steal her produce
• Follow her on her way home
• show another conflict: her getting accosted as she tries to enter her apartment[?]
• Drinks cup of tea/ takes laundry inside off clothesline/ goes to bed
• Starts day all over again: show girl getting into produce truck

SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREAT.  So far I've just been doing key poses [?] for the grocery truck flying down streets.  It's just way too fun to draw this little car.  I still have to add in the other car who is going to be battling the poor delivery girl... I wonder which car to pick.  [There are so many cute, aggressive cars here]  The streets were just too fun to draw-- I think I could go on doing JUST that for awhile... but I need to buckle down and seriously rough storyboard this all out.