Golden Treasure!

Oh Boy! Yummy Nummy Cereal! Don't worry Paul I'm not stealing your job. I'd just thought I'd give a stab at some asset designs. I based the box off of a 50's style cereal design. I just think they look really simple and cool. This picture turned out better thought it would. I thought it would look awful!

Box Art Inspiration

LISTEN UP! When good ol' Quirkey was finding random boxes of cereal to decorate his lighting test with he found two hilarious spoof cereal boxes ('Zombie Guts' and 'Tinkles'). These images were from a special Halloween collection called 'Cereal Killers', where various artist drew spoofs of cereal boxes. I have given some examples here. THIS is what some of our boxes need to look like. These are funny but they actually look like real cereal boxes. Not the free toys, mascots and branding. This is the quality that the 'Golden Treasure Cereal' should look like!

P.S If you want to check more of these cool boxes out, the website is...

http://www.wacky-packages.net/Cereal-Killers/

Poster Inspiration

As I said I was inspired (colour wise) by the communist posters from Russia. Here I have given examples of some Soviet posters and some cartoon spoofs. These are really nice and have extremely bold colours!

NEW POSTER!

Hey guys, here's my new poster. Gareth said my old poster was washed out and would not work as a small business card or DVD cover. So I decided to simplify it, and make it more like the style of my artwork for the film. I also took on board what people said, when they mention that all the pirates should be seen (like Paul's). I was inspired by the artwork of the communist propaganda poster of Russia. They have very bold and stark colours. I also implemented elements of the Star Wars movie poster. All in all it turned out better than I thought it would!

Original Concepts (I dug these out)

Here's my original Breadbeard, there was a lot more of a whimsical art style going on. I liked the look but I thought Breadbeard needed to be bigger built and more confident.

Here's the original Walker. With this one I went for a comic book style (sort of like the Hulk).
I thought this Walker looked too monstrous and scary, not funny. Plus muscles are hard to make work in Maya!

Here we can see my second attempt and Walker and my first attempt at Patches. Patches had a little bit more of a mean personality and Walker was more dumb. I really did not like this so I scrapped it.

Here was my third attempt at Walker (I consider him the hardest to get right). He we see his more snooty side. However, he is a bit more realistically proportioned, I eventually played around with him more and based him off of a flamingo.

Finally here is my second attempt at Breadbeard. Much more confident and aggressive. I based his look of combining a bear and a star fish. I went for a more angular style, as i though it would be easier to recreate in the computer.

Walker Model

Finally, guys here the Walker model. Sorry for the delay. I realised that he looks a bit like a fish from his front view!

Music for the film

Hey guys. I dunno who suggested it, can't remember. But here's some piratey music. I really want the Captain Slag theme in the chase scene

Pirate research

Here's the original images that i looked at when research pirates when i was coming up with the film . You can see how some of these images evolved into my characters.

Script version 2

Pretty self explanatory really!

PIRATES OF THE PRODUCE AISLE

By Lewis Drew Taylor

Pan out from sign displaying the offer of the new ‘Petey’s Golden Treasure Cereal’ revealing the display.A can is thrown into a trash bin. The camera pans right to reveal The Guard leaning back on his chair.Guard picks his teeth, then his stomach rumbles. He leans into his security room and stares at the CCTV screens. There he sees the camera pointing to the cereal display. He licks his lips, jumps off his chair and sits in his mobility scooter. We see him tacking off down the aisle.The cereal is on its display stand looking extremely desirable. The guard pulls up in front of it and is eclipsed by its huge shadow. The cereal has an angelic aura around it. The guard tries to reach the cereal without leaving his scooter. He looks disappointed but then has an idea. The next shot is of his claw grabber grabbing the cereal.The guard puts the cereal box in his arms, turn around and drives off. The camera pans in on the cutout of Breadbeard. The guard licks his lips. Breadbeard’s cut-out suddenly frowns and smirks. The guard is getting ready to open the box. Breadbeard begins to pull himself out of his cut out. Breadbeard becomes 3dimensional and lands, powerfully down on the floor.

BREADBEARD

Lads…

Patches and walker pull themselves out their cut-outs.

BREADBEARD (CONT’D)

Walker, Patches. Looks like we got ourselves a little pickpocket.

PATCHES

Aye, Cap’n Breadbeard. He’s got our treasure!

BREADBEARDY

arrh, I can see that Patches. Listen lad if ya hand over me booty maybe we’ll let ya leave with your own jewels in their proper place, If ya catch me drift. Watcha say?

The guard pauses, screams then speeds off.

WALKER

He is getting away Captain.

BREADBEARD

Argh, no he isn’t.

We see the guard being pursued by the pirates in a ship attached to trolleys. The guard looks back in terror.

BREADBEARDM

wah ha ha ha FIRE!

Patches grabs some watermelons and gives them to Walker to fire out of the cannon. The guard dodges every projectile.

WALKER

Our current ammunition seems to be insufficient Captain.

BREADBEARD

Aye, we need somthin’ with a little more kick to it!

Breadbeard and Walker turn around to view Patches looking very nervous. Patches is fired from the canon and latches himself on the back of the guard’s head. The guard swerves side to side in a panic. He pulls Patches off of him and tosses him to the front of the ship.Breadbeard grabs a rope and latches it onto a sign post overhead.

BREADBEARD

Urrgh never said an idiot to do a pirates job

Breadbeard swings off the ship and onto the front of the scooter. Breadbeard pulls out his sword. The guard scrambles and grabs his claw grabber. The two engage in a sword battle. They lock swords together as Breadbeard leans in close.

BREADBEARD

(shouting) GIVE ME BACK ME TREASUUURE!

The Guard begins to look angry.

GUARD

(screaming) Neveerrrr!

The guard disarms Breadbeard and sends his sword flying. The sword hits the front of the ship, cutting the ropes and setting free the trolley. The Ship hits the ground and begins to grind forward.
The Guard realises he is in power and points his grabber at Breadbeard. Breadbeard notices the oncoming ship. The guard turns around. The two of them scream and embrace each other as the ship crashes into them.Cut to black.Fading in, we see the wreckage of the scooter and the ship. The guard is unconscious on the floor. A pair of hands pick up the cereal. Breabeard, looking rather battered, raises the box above his head.

BREADBEARD

Lads! We did it! I told ya no one touches me booty!

The pirates disappear off screen. Hours later the Guard awakes. He walks down the aisles to see the shop is open showing many signs advertising the free sample of the cereal. He sees the cut outs looking maniacally at him. The camera dolly zooms in on him as he screams.

Model Sheets

Hi guys, these are my model sheets that I promised. The Walker one is not on my USB for some reason so I will load it on later.

UPS ad

Simon showed me this today and I thought it was pretty cool. Not only is it a chase but it also has cardboard cut outs who come to life. Thanks Si.

Pirate Ship

Hey all, here is my original design for the pirate ship. I chatted with Mu and we agreed that aspects need to be stripped away to make it more simple. JB, Mu and myself also discussed Ncloth, and how it will be a bugger. So we decided to make the sail out of cardboard.

Character Line Up

Hey guys, here is a character line up that I have been working on. Tom and I chatted about giving the characters a little more detail so that is what I have done in this picture. The characters have beentweaked slightly especially the guard. His legs are thinner toaccentuate his belly and he has a new hat, belt and pockets. His colours have changed also, because I realised that the colours that I gave him before were the colours of a cop, not a security guard. Anywhere here it is, I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

One Piece

Whilst researching pirate ships I found the cartoon ships from a pirate anime called 'One Piece'. The ship is really cartoony and caricatured. I think it looks really simple and fun!

Pirate Ship

Here's some research reference pictures for the pirate ship. These show all the characteristics of the ship. The ship should be more caricatured and simple.

Storyboard

I pretty much finished the current storyboard. I will have to photocopy the frames and re order them tomorrow.

Note to the blog, my Internet sucks at the moment so posting might be difficult!