From Script to Screen: Animatic with Narration

I finally got it so that the narration worked with the animatic, some frames had to be swapped over and lenthened out but over all the narration fits nicely with the video now, expect the final finished piece with all the sound in due course

Special Thanks to Paul Ferguson of Themesview School for providing his voice for my animatic.

From Script to Screen: Animatic and Pre-vis

From Script to Screen: Art of The Snow King and the Red Bird

Yeti and the Red Bird Art Of

From Script to Screen: Environmental Concept Art of the Yeti Palace and Forrest Clearing

Castle Exterior

Queen's Bedroom

Living Room

Mirror Hall

Forrest Clearing

These are my concept art for the environment of the Yeti castle exterior and interior, I wanted to use a primarily cool palette for the castle with the browns and orange for the wooden features like cabinets and have the majority of the Queens possessions being purple while the Kings is a dark blue/ teal. 

For the forrest clearing in end of my film I want it to display more variety in colours, showing that the Yeti King is going towards a more colourful, brighter and warmer future, so more greens and yellows are implemented.

I would like to return to these pieces later on to continue to edit them some more, mainly to work out iffy perspectives some more and fiddle with the colour palettes, but overall I do like how they have come out, especially the bedroom piece as I had the most trouble figuring out how to draw it from the angle I drafted it in.

From Script to Screen: Tibetan Bird Concept Designs

4 Birds from Tibet and Bhutan

Here are some drawings using photo references of different birds from Tibet and Bhutan, the areas where Yeti's originated from, going clockwise from the top left the breeds of these birds are, the Sapphire Flycatcher, the Long Tailed Minivet, the Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush and the Red-Billed Leiothrix. I want to go for either the Minivet or the Thrush due to the redness of their bodies being able to stand out against the cold blues of the castle interior, and because the bird is so small I didn't want it to blend in with the backgrounds in wide shots.
Upon receiving feedback I will start to incorporate the bird into the same style as the yetis. 

From Script to Screen: Storyboard Redone

Storyboard

I have made some changes like adding a mini plot of the Snow King building a bird cage for the bird as their way of connecting before the climax of the film.

From Script to Screen: Living Room Pre-Vis WiP

Fig 1: Living Room Scene

This is my work in process Pre-Vis for the Living Room, where the Snow King and the bird meet for the first time. The room is based on one of my castle concepts, however, I had to make some changes to the room's size so that there wasn't as much empty space then in the drawing. All thats left for this room is that I'll just need to add some room decoration like pots and cushions etc and I will continue to move the furniture in the room around so that there is a clear shot of the fireplace for the reveal of the bird. 

Fig 2: Concept Orphograph of the Living Room that the pre-vis was based on.

Snow King's Chair- Front

Snow King's Chair- Side

Snow King's Chair- 3/4 View

Snow Queen's Chair- Front

Snow Queen's Chair- Side

Snow Queen's Chair- 3/4 View

Fireplace- Front

Fireplace- Side

Fireplace- 3/4 view

From Script to Screen: Castle Design

Fig 1: Influence Map for the Castle

Fig 2: Draft 3/4 View of the Back of the Castle

Fig 3: Front and Back View of the Castle

For the redesign of the castle I looked into some Asian palaces, from around the Tibetan and Bhutan as well as some Indian palaces that have an asymmetrical architecture and jagged, angular structures. I also looked at frozen over waterfalls as the natural way they form helped in thinking of how I want the castle to look as an ice palace for a big creature like a yeti.

From Script to Screen OGR 2

From Script to Screen OGR 2

From Script to Screen: Storyboard Frames: 55-125

Fig 1: Frames 55-63

Fig 2: Frames 64- 69

Fig 3: Frames 70- 78

Fig 4: Frames 79- 87

Fig 5: Frames 88- 94

Fig 6: Frames 95- 100

Fig 7: Frames 101- 106

Fig 8: Frames 107-114

Fig 9: Frames 115- 120

Fig 10: Frames 121- 125

These frames show the middle and the ending of my story. The amount of frames might mean that the video itself might go over the time limit so I might go back in and sort things out, maybe shorten the beginning and elongated the middle bit with the bonding of the Yeti King and the Red Bird.

From Script to Screen: Storyboard Frames 1-54

Fig 1: Frames 1-6

Fig 2: Frames 7-14

Fig 3: Frames 15-19

Fig 4: Frames 20-27

Fig 5: Frames 28- 35

Fig 6: Frames 36- 41

Fig 7: Frames 42- 46

Fig 8: Frames 47- 54

In these Storyboards, they cover the "First Act" of my story,  telling the story of why the Snow King is so cold and jaded due to the loss of his wife. Some of the frames here are planned to be very quick so that this portion of the film won't be too long that it extends the film's overall length. The red arrows are to help with showing which frame it which as I myself got confused looking back through them due to the roughness of the thumbnails haha!
SIDE NOTE: I also used my new tablet, the cintiq 13hd to draw this and it was a blast :)

From Script to Screen: Character Design- Snow King and Snow Queen

Fig 1: Yeti Influence Map

Fig 2: Snow King

Fig 3: Snow Queen

Fig 4: Concept of the differences between the two yetis

Fig 5: Colour Palette

While yeti's in mythology are primarily associated with a masculine figure, and usually they are assumed to be some sort of gorilla. I tried to add other factors in, especially for the Snow Queen, included how the fur around animals like sheep and alpacas form around their faces and making her round and less of a threatening figure then the Snow King. I'm still not sure if they should have fangs or not so feedback on that or anything about the designs are very welcome :)

From Script to Screen OGR 1

Script to Screen