Evolution of a Dictator

ok this post is gonna be a look at the evolution of the dictator character, from the sketches up to the flash version/break apart.

first up we have the first drawing the stalinish one, the beginning style was a bit more realistic and this is a reflection of that, the look was close to stalin who was the model for big brother in orwells 1984 so i scrapped it.


after that it was a midget dictator, going the napoleon route of little man syndrome, but it just didn't fit with the rest of the world he was short and ugly not the style i wanted.


so onto the french nazi design, long slender with symbols and a uniform to evoke a cross between a nazi and an american, with a frech look but to me this design lacked power so it got tossed.


this was my final design for a long time it evoked the leaders i had in my head while i was designing him ( lenin, kim jong-il, trotsky and other historical figures freud and nietzsche), it fit with my style at the time but after a break through on the overall design was redesigned.


into this i experimented with colouring using only greys but thought it needed a bit more punch to it and the flash version turned out looking exactly how i wanted.

Posters

a few poster designs possibly the ones for going onto my backgrounds within the movie, but first the first of a series of posters featuring the different characters

animation tests of cycles

here's the test footage of quick run/walk cycles done in flash

Animatic

And here's a link to the animatic, still early days on this, and the music was put together to be atmoshereic and a little unsettling, but probably will be heavily reworked.

The Storyboard full

Here's the storyboard in all it's blue animation pencil goodness

here's my little studio intro promo for the beginning of my movie, made it while experimenting with after effects tutorials

Conceptual Graffiti

here's some conceptual graffiti pieces i was practicing adding graffiti to images and most are anti communist slogans and one anti police, just a few examples of the stuff the graffitists of my story would do.

possible title

The choosen idea, and the synopsis treatment and script for it

I went with the idea that grew on me more and more, which is a traditional classic love story with some odd twists and a possible violence fetish involved, but in a cute way.

inspired by my facination with communism and mainly socialism and how they get portrayed in media as evil even though the ideal of everyone equal is the backbone of these, i wanted to do something that echo's 1984 but the society works and the only negative voices are those of bored teens with an in built need to rebel against order and kept some of the negative aspects of a power drunk totalitarian leadership for plot reasons, so it won't always make sense but when does love make sense?

ok onto the written documents, these are the up to date ones:

Idea's for Movie

Going into this year i had one goal to do a piece I'll be proud of, didn't work out that way last year and this is another chance at doing my own little movie, and i had a few idea's, and here they are

1: the script for last years that wasn't used

'Cookie Revolution, or how i learned to chill and trust the ladies', was the story i was doing for my movie last year it was very dialogue heavy and took up a huge chunk of time and then a computer problem corrupted the digital files and i was two weeks away from failing, and some how managed to save my ass in those two weeks, the story was girl scouts taking over the world and demanding female rule as men have fucked it all up. I liked the idea and the script it made people laugh but after last year i decided i wasn't ready to do this one all over again just yet.



2: the trippy one

the story is last man on earth, wanders and finds a huge mirror religious symbols all around it and the reflection of a woman in it, the mirror turns out to be a portal to a acid trip inspired world of spinning spirals and long staircases in mid air, at the top the spirals centre leads to a room with two chairs, and the woman sits waiting for last man on earth, she's god and they chat. Thought this one would be to boring visually and reminded me a little of the matrix








3: the cute one that took an evil turn

had an idea, boy dresses as roman gladiator, and a head injury leads him to think he really is one and chaos follows, started a very small rough story board that made me realise it was becoming a school massacre so decided no on it








4: the musical

this one i nearly did last year been in my head for ages it's a musical comedy about two back alley abortionists in competition with each other, and the chaos and insanity level with just escalate to the big finale that features some truly disturbing imagery.






5: the grower

little sketch that became more and more something i could get into and have alot of fun with symbolism and design work from periods that i'm a fan of, uses elements of things i'm into and hopefully will be told in my voice, a love story in a world without love that blossoms into a desire to break the rules and make a statement.