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Main Hunter Character Variation & Final Concept: To

Dinosaur

just some quick ideas for the dinosaur. 

Hole Scene color thumbs

Reading it through it was one of my favorite parts visually

Production Schedule

Script - Week 1
Storyboards - Week 2 - Week 3
Character Designs - Week 1 - Week 3
Backgrounds - Week 3 (start, based on storyboards)

Our goal is to have the design and style done by week 3. This includes the colors, mood, character designs. The sooner we can get the pre-production assets ready, the more time we can put on production time and better quality animation. Post your thoughts in the comment section here.

Cave Boy Roughs

some rough ideas for the cave boy. much more coming very soon. and also the dino is on its way. 

Caveboy Character Designs 2

I decided to try using toonboom to see how it could animate, and maybe sparks some design ideas.

CaveBoy Character Designs 1

TITLE IDEAS

Hey guys, me and Dipesh were trying to come up with titles, and having trouble.   So we're opening up this post for title ideas, just post them here in the comments.    Anything works...

Caveboy

Dino-Hunter

Skillful Huntsboy

Death Master 5

Queens of the Stone Age

...

etc....something like this...

have at it!

THE SCRIPT - FINAL DRAFT (version 1.0 heh)

Stonage Crap

Cast -  

The Hunter

A feisty little 10 year old with a lot of confidence and very big aspirations.

The Dinosaur

A humongous dinosaur, the hunter's prey.

Scene 1  -  intro

Scene opens with the hunter running through a forest filled with trees and foliage.  He dodges and darts through the underbrush.  He jumps over a log and lands in a somewhat large puddle of water.  The camera trucks out to reveal that the puddle is actually a very large footprint.  When the boy realizes where he's standing he gets very excited and continues on his path. 

Scene 2 

The boy comes to what appears to be a wall of leaves and vines, but upon brushing several fronds aside he reveals a large clearing in the woods.  We see the dinosaur playing and frolicking in the clearing.  Due to his immense size he feels a little dangerous, but the boy is undeterred.  

Scene 3 - dream seq

The boy reacts with a big, slow smile, happy to have a chance at bringing home such a prize.  The camera trucks in on his face as his smile grows and stops for a few seconds when his smile is as its largest.  Swift truck out reveals a completely different scene (Crosscut on the boy's smile), the boy stands triumphantly on the dead dinosaur's body, his spear lodged deep in its hide. The background is more violent and dark, the wind whips at his newly acquired cape and the music becomes powerful...basically the whole scene turns EPIC.  After a few seconds the camera trucks quickly back to the boy's face and the scene goes back to normal, as the boy comes to his senses.  

Scene 4 - First Attack

Over the shoulder from the boy's POV as he watches the dinosaur frolic.  In an instant he charges into the clearing with his spear raised high.  The dinosaur notices the hunter and watches him curiously.  The hunter advances on his prey, he throws his spear without hesitation but it bounces uselessly off the dinosaur's chest.  The two of them stare at eachother for a moment, and then the hunter panics and runs away terrified.  

Scene 5 - A new plan

The boy flees through the forest, trying to escape.  He sprints hard until he runs out of breath.  Bent over and gasping for air he notices a long thick vine between his feet.  His eyes follow the vine to a piece of wood that is mysteriously shaped like a pointing finger.  He follows the direction of the finger and sees a giant round boulder perched precariously on a steep hill high above the trees.  The boy reacts with an curious look, obviously having formulated some sort of plan.

Scene 6 - DinoCrusher 1.0

Scene opens with the boy climbing up a tree using a vine ladder.  When he gets to his branch of choice, he looks down.  The boulder has been outfitted with a few extras, decals, spikes, etc. and the mysteriously shaped pointing finger plank is wedged underneath it like a fulcrum.  The boy leaps from his branch and lands on high end of the plank.  The plank doesn't budge, and the boy bounces painfully to the ground.  After a moment, even though there was seemingly no change, the boulder slowly begins to roll.  While the dinosaur continues to play in the clearing, and the boulder ominously picks up speed, the boy looks on in hopeful anticipation.

The camera cuts between the three of them several times and eventually settles on the dinosaur who is beginning to hear the sounds of the oncoming boulder.  He waits patiently, looking in the direction of the boulder, then follows it with his eyes as it whizzes just inches in front of him.  Cut to the boy's utter disbelief and subsequent reaction.

Scene 7 - The Hole

Scene opens to the hunter with a crude shovel, digging.  He wipes his brow and looks up at the sun which looms hotly in the sky like a giant ball of fire.  He looks down at his meager hole, and resumes digging.  Time lapses, and the boy disappears underground as his digging speeds up.  A large pile of dirt forms by the hole as he digs, and the sun moves quickly across the sky.  Around dusk, cut to a view from inside the hole where time becomes normal and the boy continues furiously digging.  The dinosaur's head pokes over the edge of the hole and he watches the boy dig for a moment before disappearing again.  Cut back to the surface view as day lapses into night.  

Scene 8 - The Rain

Crickets chirping, we see the boy at the bottom of his giant hole proudly surveying his work by torchlight.  His sense of accomplishment quickly turns into one of dread as he realizes that he didn't leave himself a way out.  He attempts to climb out, and fails. Sitting at the bottom of his giant trap he begins to fall into a deep depression.  Just when it seems things can't get any worse, a drop of water falls on him.  Then another and another and another, thus beginning a torrential downpour the likes of which the world has never seen.  The boy's torch is winked out and the scene goes black.

Scene 9 - Out of the dark

Scene opens on the surface before the sun has risen.  The boy is floating dejectedly in his bucket looking at his own reflection in the water.  Just when all hope seems lost, the sun peeks over the horizon bathing him in golden light.  In a flash he is rejuvenated and he picks up his shovel and uses it to row out of the giant lake-like hole.  

Scene 10 - the TRUE plan

Scene opens to the boy writing on the wall of his cave.  Several different camera angles should be used to successfully demonstrate his furvor.  In the final angle we are given our first view of what he's writing, a primitive drawing of a dinosaur.  He steps back to admire his work and the camera cuts behind him to again show the drawing.  A quick truck out reveals that the cave wall is huge and covered entirely with equations and blueprints.  Reaction shot of the boy, and fade.

Scene 11 - the final showdown

The dinosaur walks through the forest, the boy follows along stealthily in the underbrush.  A low angle shot and perhaps a rack focus will reveal a trip wire waiting in the dinosaur's path.  As the dinosaur moves closer to it, the camera will cut back and forth between it and the boy to heighten the sense of drama. When the dinosaur finally trips the wire, gears go into motion, pullies unwind, primitive hydraulics start pumping, etc etc etc... in the end, a gigantic net springs off the ground just in front of the dinosaur.  The dinosaur stares at the net and the boy reacts with astonished disbelief.  The net swings from its support in the trees above and both the dinosaur and the boy just stare.  A slight breeze blows through the forest and snaps the vine that supports the net.  The net then floats gingerly on the wind, softly draping itself over the dinosaur.  The dinosaur is instantly captured, panics wildly, and ends up becoming even more wrapped up and helpless.  The boy leaps and howls and dances in celebration of his victory, the dinosaur watches with big sad teary eyes.  During his victory dance the boy begins to notice the dinosaur's sadness and he begins to become sad himself.  The dinosaur whimpers at him a little, and his guilt becomes more than he can bare.  He pulls a knife from his belt and sets about freeing the dinosaur from the giant net.  When the dinosaur is finally free, he and the boy come face to face for the first time.  The boy thinks he's going to be eaten, but the dinosaur just licks him like a giant puppy dog.  and the scene fades.

Scene 12 - the end

Fade in to the boy and the dinosaur walking off into the distance.  The camera pans down to reveal a path giant dinosaur footprints beside a much longer path of little people ones.  

And Credits roll like so much bowlingball.

First Rough Draft Of The Script

Stoneage Crap

Dennis is running through the forest underbrush leaping over roots and tree stumps. He is a young caveboy approximately 10 years of age toting general hunting gear for the time period.

As he runs, he comes across several clues that hint at a giant creature ahead. (Giant footprint, broken branches, etc.) He slows down and stops before a wall of foliage. Pushing a few fronds to the side he peers into a vast clearing and observes for the first time, his prey.

We see the dinosaur from the kid’s point of view (Over the shoulder shot), she is doing something that makes her appear aggressive/imposing/dangerous to the audience.

*chasing around another dinosaur

*jumping around, playing, frolicking, which from afar looks dangerous

Boy reacts to the dinosaur with a huge smile on his face, happy to have a chance to bring home such a large prize.

*show the dino as a big chunk of meat

*dream bubble with boy wearing a suit made from the dino

*triumphant scene, i.e. david > goliath etc.

Immediately charges the dinosaur with his spear. His attack is a complete failure as his spear simply bounces off the dinosaur’s hide. The dinosaur reacts with a confused yet hilarious look, and the boy runs away terrified.

Boy stops to catch his breath. As his fear subsides and he comes to his senses he begins noticing things in the forest that give him idea as to how to capture the dinosaur.

2^nd Gag

He sees a big round rock, a vine, and a log – Uses the log to pry the rock off the hill, so that it rolls into the clearing and crushes the dinosaur. The aim however, is off and the rock rolls just past the dinosaur, barely missing him. The dinosaur chases the rock like a big dog, and the kid is disheartened by his failure.

3^rd Gag

He goes to the opposite end of the clearing and begins to dig a hole. He digs the hole all day and all night, planning on covering it over and having the dinosaur drop into it. While he digs, the dinosaur comes and observes the hole digging (unbeknownst to the boy). As dawn approaches, it starts to rain. The boy realizes that the hole is too deep for him to escape quickly, so he gets into his dirt bucket and floats to the top, using his shovel as an oar.

He crawls onto the shore and seems ready to give up. As the sun comes up, he catches his own reflection in the water and it steels his determination. He stands up triumphantly and runs off into the forest.

Cut to the boy in his cave, furiously drawing something on one of his walls. We see that he is cave-painting a crude animal by firelight, but as we truck out we see that the wall is completely covered with technical equations and geometric calculations etc. He takes a step back to observe and admire his work and shows that he’s prepared for his final attempt.

Cut to dinosaur walking through the forest. Low angle shot, revealing a trip wire in the dinosaur’s path. The dinosaur triggers the trap and a Rube-Goldbergian device of cavemanic proportions is activated.

*Gears, pulleys weights and vines.

*treadmills, primitive hydraulics

*fire, rocks, ropes, bones

After all the bells and whistles, a humongous net flies up in front of the dinosaur barely grazing his snout. The net swings uselessly above the dinosaur’s head for a moment, and we see the boy’s disappointment. A breeze flows through and has just enough force behind it to break the vine holding up the net. The net floats gingerly on the breeze and comes to settle gently on the dinosaur. The dinosaur is instantly caught, and panics further trapping himself in the net. The boy does a victory dance while the dinosaur struggles painfully to be free. In mid-dance the boy notices the dinosaur’s eyes welled up with tears, as he sulkily whines at the boy for help. The boy goes through the emotions of being victorious, feeling guilty, being sad, and then confident again as he decides to save the dinosaur. He whips out some sort of knife and gets to work cutting the net and freeing the dinosaur. When the dinosaur is finally free, he and the boy come face to face for the first time. The boy (and audience) thinks he’s going to be eaten, but the dinosaur licks him like a giant puppy dog.

Ending sequence:

We see the boy and the dinosaur walking together into the distance, the camera pans down to reveal one giant dinosaur footprint beside a bunch of little people ones..

And CREIDDISITS.

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