Animation Artifacts &Story & Storyboards 02 Apr 2007 07:41 am
Monstro Sneezes
– These are the last of the pages of storyboard I have from Pinocchio. It’s the big climax: Pinocchio and Gepetto, on the raft within the belly of the beast, escape and make it to shore.
They’ve started a fire of their only safety within and are hoping it’s going to make Monstro open his mouth so that they can escape.
The drawings are all large scale images on five hole animation paper. They’re pinned to the board as opposed to the tape used in some of the earlier pages, and it feels a bit more of a working board than others of this series. However, I assume this is still for some kind of publication.
Of note is this first page of Monstro poses. It really details the action as Monstro works up a sneeze. These certainly look like animation drawings rather than storyboard. Note the perspective ruling for the front of the whale on the second and last image.
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The Animation Guild Blog directs us to this article in The London Times which tells us the Aardman and Sony will soon be in business together. After the Dreamworks breakup, it was expected that Aardman would eventually find a new home, and it looks as though they’ve found one. The announcement is expected to be made official today, Monday, by Sony.
Extra note: SONY made it official. There was a formal announcement via Variety that said Aardman and Sony will work together, but they haven’t decided on the first film.
Jaime Weinman has directed us to the closing sequence to Variety Girl which features great caricatures of celebrities by T. Hee. This film also includes a wonderful puppetoon sequence by George Pal (not shown on YouTube.) A take off on Cinderella, it pretends to be a backstage view; it’s charming. I believe T. Hee had a hand in writing it.
