Concepts

After some thought I've decided that I'm going to include a tub of ice cream, a box of custard and a steak in the scene, just so that there isn't just one object for the rig to find.

Ice Cream

I drew a simple idea of what I had in my head as a base for my research.
I wanted a small tub with a rounded top and bottom. I thought this would be a good thing to add considering that 2 of the 4 objects are normal boxes.

http://www.bon-voyage.co.uk/img/uploads/1751_fit588x588.jpg

http://www.cadburyicecreamland.com/media/Cadbury_Flake_Ice_Cream_Tub_2_1301384024.png

http://www.rr-icecream.eu/media/2600/24558_tub_vanilla_800ml.png

Fish Finger Boxes

Again, Just a basic design of what I had an idea of and something to base what I'm looking for on.






There are very few designs for fish finger boxes so depending on time I will either design my own, or find an existing design (birdeye etc) and use that.

http://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fish_Fingers3.jpg

Steak

For the steak design I wanted to try and keep the cartoony "Loony Tunes" look about them. I've always found this design interesting and have wanted an excuse to use it in any way I could.
Although, depending on how I think this looks when it comes to modelling the objects I may opt for a more realistic looking one

http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/image-files/cartoon-steak-005.jpg

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/tsipilevin/tsipilevin1106/tsipilevin110600029/9924051-isolated-slice-of-t-bone-steak-illustration-steak-cartoon-style-drawing.jpg

Custard Box

A very simple design but since a custard box isn't something I see regularly I improvised with the packaging.
upon researching designs I found that there are only one or two proper designs for such a thing so I'm going look look for an old fashioned, subtle look for it.

http://f1.ehive.com/3021/1/g26b1j_16dq_l.jpg

A quick sketch of 3 of my objects.

Animatic

Animatic based upon my story board.

Story Board

Box 1 - Shows rig, asleep on snow with flakes floating past his face.

Box 2 - Rig begins to wake up out of a haze.
Box 3 - Rig stands up and looks around in confusion as to where he is.
Box 4 - Rig shivers and hugs himself.

Box 5 - Rig begins walking off to the side, hunched over and still holding himself from the cold.

Box 6 - Rig see's a large object covers in snow from a distance.

Box 7 - Rig walks up to object to get a better look.
Box 8 - camera cuts to inside of object looking out as rig wipes snow away from camera.
Box 9 - Object is revealed to be a giant box of fish fingers.
Box 10 - a light appears behind the rig as if a door is being opened and the rig looks toward it, shielding his eyes from the light.

Box 11 - a large hand reaches from the light.

Box 12 - Rig is shocked and wide eyed by the giant hand approaching him.

Box 13 - scene fades out to white.

Story Idea 2

After some feedback on my last story, multiple people told me that my idea was slightly over done and predictable so I decided to scrap the use of ice caves but focus on the rug walking through a blizzard in a different setting for a more unexpected and humorous outcome.


Scene opens with a small mound of snow, Rig bursts up from it and climbs out of the ground into a blizzard.
He holds himself from the cold and starts to walk with difficulty against the wind into the blizzard. Rig sees something in the distance and walks towards it. When he gets to it, it's a large box covered in snow. The rig wipes some snow away to reveal the words in big bold letters "Fish Fingers". He moves to another shape and kicks it, all the snow falls off to reveal a tub of ice cream. A light starts to appear over the rig, he looks behind himself and his eyes get wide as it cuts to a large door opening in the sky with a bright light. A large hand comes out of the light and reaches for the rig as the scene fades to white.

Story Idea

This Story idea has me wanting some of the icy caves I have seen in some of my research.

Rig is walks on screen through a harsh blizzard, he is hunched over, hugging himself, he finds a large ice cave and stops to look at it. he shouts "HELLO!" into it and is greeted a few seconds later by a "HELLO!" back, but slightly quieter. he shouts again, "HELLOOOOOO!" even louder and a few seconds more he hears it the same again. he starts to get angry at the voice copying him and shouts "GRRRAAAAAAGH!! STOP THAT!!", after a few seconds he hears "YOU SHOULD STOP!!" and then a low grumbling is heard getting louder until an avalanche comes over the top of the cave and sweeps the rig away.

Movie Influences. Cont.

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http://hopewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/z06-jack-freezing-tree.jpg

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Rise of the Guardians.

I recently watched Rise of the Guardians before we were given this project and there is a scene where Jack Frost is confronting the boogyman in a frozen wasteland with icy crags and snowy dunes all around the scene.
Looking at this and some of the other scenes I found it to be very helpful in ideas for my scene.

movie influence

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Still taken from "Monsters Inc.







Monsters Inc.

When thinking about doing a scene related to snow or a blizzard I want first reminded of the scene from Monsters Inc where Mike and Sully are banished to the Himalayas and meet the Abominable Snowman.
I always remembered how thick the blizzard was when they fell through the door and instantly thought this would be a great effect to include in my animation, especially if it was set in a snowy tundra.