Part 2 of the storyboard of the Secret Agent, Martial Arts Expert and The Company

This is part 2 of the Storyboard of my story.

Scene 7 shows Ben explaining the situation that he is in to Ti Ching saying that The Company is going to start a war.

Scene 8 shows Ti Ching shocked saying that we have to stop them.

Scene 9 shows Ben and Ti Ching running to The Company HQ. They are both saying "Lets kick some ass!"

Scene 10 shows The Company officials realising that Ben and Ti are on their way to destroy The Company.

Scene 11 shows Ben and Ti heading towards the HQ of The Company and The Company thugs running out of the building to fight the duo off. The battle is witnessed by The Company officials.

Scene 12 shows Ben and Ti as the victors in this battle with the HQ of The Company in ruins.

Part 1 of the storyboard of Secret Agent, Martial Arts Experts and The Company

This is part 1 of the storyboard of my story.

Scene 1 shows Ben - the Secret Agent dreaming of peace in a world where the USA and USSR are enemies in the Cold War.

Scene 2 shows Ben on assignment in Paris where he learns of an organisation called The Company who are trying to pressure the USA and USSR to go to war against each other.

Scene 3 shows Ben thinking that without The Company there would be peace in the world.

Scene 4 shows Ben walking to the gym to meet Ti Ching - a martial arts expert who he believes can help him in his quest to bring down The Company and destroy it.

Scene 5 shows Ti Ching practising his moves in a gym.

Scene 6 shows Ben greeting Ti Ching.

Secret Agent character drawing

This is the main character (the secret agent) in my story. Views shown are front and right side.

Scene 2

This is a picture of how scene 2 will look like.

Story of the Secret Agent, Martial Art Expert and The Company

Theme: Epic slice of life
Main characters: Ben – Withdrawn Secret Agent
Ti Ching – Overworked Martial Arts Expert
Setting: Paris
Major Event: Dream

Preliminary Story

Ben is a Secret Agent in the Cold War and dreams of peace in the world. While on assignment in Paris, Ben learns that there is an organisation called ‘The Company’ which is pressuring the USA and USSR to go to war with each other. Ben thinks that without The Company there will be peace between the two nations.

So he enlists the help of Martial Arts Expert, Ti Ching, to take down The Company. They then team up and head to the HQ of The Company. The Company realises the threat to their grand plan and so send out there henchmen to stop the duo. The henchmen then get killed by Ben and Ti and the duo then destroy the HQ of The Company!



I may use this as one of my ideas for the animatic and might even develop it more.

Pros and Cons of Toonboom and Flash

Toonboom

Pros

- There is more workspace available to use than Flash.
- It has the familiar feel of traditional animation i.e. pen to paper.

Cons

- It takes some getting used to if you haven’t used the software before.
- You have to adjust some settings in Quicktime, which can be a minor annoyance when viewing your animations.


Flash

Pros

- Easier to adjust and get used to than Toonboom.
- Industry standard animation tool.

Cons

- Quite a big price tag attached to it.
- Some features are useless especially ones in later versions of Flash.

Basically Toonboom is more suited to tradition animation creation because users have to draw objects by themselves and the storyboard function looks the same as it would on paper.

Boy with balloon at bus stop scene

This is a scene which has been drawn in an animatic form from the storyboard seen below.

The scene is of a boy with his balloon at a bus stop and then being told that he can't bring the balloon onto the bus.