Update #2 - Animatic and stuffs

Ooh, been far too long since I updated this, sorry about that. I'll try updating a bit more frequently from now on.

Anyhow, since last time I've drawn the first version of the storyboard and put it together to an animatic. The goal of this storyboard/animatic was to figure out a few keyposes, timing and to some extent camera angles.
Now, as you will see, there's only two (or three, depending on how you count) different camera angles here. I did it like this because I was pretty sure I wanted to animate in a way I'd see as much of the characters as possible in each shot. Now I'm thinking I may want to have it a bit more cinematic, think through the camera work a bit more and sort of make it the third character, to put it very pretentiously.

According to my schedule I am supposed to start animating in 3D by January, so I'm aiming to have a complete storyboard by New Year's Eve. I also want to make the 2D animatic a bit more animated. When I get back to Norway for Yule I'll have access to a more wide-angled camera so I can more accurately film reference videos, which I will do.
Penny Holton have told us that she's going to help us all book a studio to film reference videos in, so I'll definitely do that as well. But it's nice to rehearse before then.

Lastly, on recommendation from Em Johnson I've partnered up with my room mate who's doing a similar project for his Final Year Project. He'll help me with references by being my second character, and I'll do the same for him.

Enough wish wash, first 2D animatic below!

Update #1 - Finding My Sound

My Final Year Project is very simple to describe, I'm taking a sound bite of dialogue and animating a scene around it. I spent a fair amount of time just watching through films, television series and online videos searching for what I wanted. I wrote down where all the interesting sound bites where, and when I was happy with that list I started swifting through it a second time, eliminating the lesser interesting ones. By the time I had narrowed it down to three bites I started acting out the dialogue with myself while the clips played, trying to see which clip could be the fun to work with, and also which clip I had the most interesting ideas for.

At first I settled for a clip from Joss Whedon's The Avengers, it was a dialogue between Thor and Loki on a mountain top venting on each other about their relationship. You can hear that clip here.

I started doing some very basic thumbnails, trying to get the feel of it, but I was never quite happy with anything. I felt that the whole scene was a bit too cliché and I found myself hard of not favouring very cliché acting choices. 

Seeing as I was still so early in development, and had the option to switch, I decided to go with my second choice for sound bite. It's more vague on what the characters are actually doing, they could be sitting down, they could be running around or they could be battling monsters in space for all that I could care. The bite is from Kenneth Branagh's THOR and is a scene where Erik Selvig and Thor are talking about what Thor is doing (yes, I am quite fascinated by Marvel's Thor character).

I am now in the process of getting hang of the scene, what happens, more or less learning it by heart. While I am doing this I'm sketching down ideas for poses and filming myself doing things I think I might want to use.

You can hear the sound clip here.