Invasion Storyboard

So here is my storyboard for the Invasion shoot, we got given the first four shots, however I am going to be adding a few extra things such as extra spaceships when it comes to compositing. The basic idea though is that there is an alien invasion and the photographer gets abducted into the spaceship where it is up to us to decide what is going to happen to them. As you can see from my storyboards the photographer sees a large tree in the distance and something moving, this turns out to be the alien and while it appears cute and friendly, as soon as the photographer takes a picture of it, the alien gets really angry and pounces on them. An animatic will shortly follow as this needs to be sent off to John Waugh, the person who is going to be composing my music for me. I need to work out the timings of each shot so I know my time limits and also John knows what he has to work with and how long the changes are in between the main shots.

I think I'm being quite ambitious with this project, especially for the time scale of it. I need to learn how to rig a quadruped character, get the topology of my model correct, try and create my character with fur and as I want to specialise in animation, I really need to concentrate and look at a lot of reference videos and make sure I nail the timings and how my alien moves. If worst comes to worst and I do not have time to include fur onto my character, I will just apply a texture onto it. I will still be experimenting with it so I will have the research to back it up.