Scene 1 Storyboard!

Alright, I've been pretty busy these last couple of weeks doing a storyboard for the first scene.

Truthfully, this was a lot of hard work and I am questioning the importance of doing it for the rest of the movie. At first I thought it would help me plan out my shots and prepare me better for shooting the scene, but really, when all was said and done, all I did was put what was already in my head in the storyboard. In the end, I don't think this helped me visualize the movie any better than what I had already worked out ahead of time in my mind.

That said, since I spent the last two weeks working on it I may as well post it on the blog.

Again, like all the other voice work posted on the blog, this is my voice you will hear and it isn't the actual voices of the characters you will hear in the final cut of the film. I just recorded it myself to save time. As I've mentioned before, I have a terrible voice for film. Heck, I didn't even bother to direct myself (as is obvious from all the reading mistakes I made and didn't bother to re-record myself). I just read the script and a little before half way thorough it I even gave up on trying to alter my voice for the different characters (not that I tried all that hard to begin with).

So, here is the first (and probably only) storyboard for the movie. It is the first scene of the film and gives nothing away on the plot, other than introducing all the characters of the film.

Enjoy.

New Power Dog Costume!

Alright, new in the fact that I made another one.

It's been done for a couple of days now. I mentioned in my last post that I would probably spend my last few days of 2009 making the costume, which is exactly what I've done.

I thought it would be fun to show the anatomy of making the costume. This was something I didn't do with the last costumes and it gives me something new to post, since I didn't do any filming this weekend (very busy doing family stuff).

These pics show some of the patterns used to make the costume. I designed them myself and made tweeks to them as I gained more experience. As you can tell, I used PD Pattern 3.0 to make this costume. The hardest part, as always, is making the insignia which is actually cut out from the cardboard of a Coke box (to give it that much needed 3D look that all super hero costumes must have now adays) and then I glue fabric over the top and sew it onto the costume. Getting it centered right is almost as time consuming as making the thing. The entire process is even more challenging because, as you can see, Max and Willow really enjoy helping which only slows me down because they are constantly in the way.

The final picture shows the two Power Dog costumes that will be used in the movie. I actually made three costumes but the first one was way too small to fit Gibson (it is only a little big on Max) and simply cannot be used in the movie. I have two costumes because Power Dog, although only having one in the movie, gets his ripped up quite a bit in the final battle with T-Boom and I need one costume which will be worn throughout most of the movie and one that I can burn and shred while filming the final battle scene. Xam has three costumes but that is because he isn't super strong like Gibson and his costume takes more damage throughout the course of the film.

All in all, this costume only took me about 4 hours to make. That may sound like a lot until you consider the fact the first one took me about 8 hours total. I can honestly say that I think I'm getting pretty good at making these things. Who knows, perhaps I will be able to cut it down to 2 hours when I make the sequel! :)