I've gotten some great advice from my comments so far. Thank you guys so much. You're so much smarter than I am.
Erm. So. Between my comments, which were right on, and this paper, and the sketching I've been doing, I think I'm starting to get a new handle on my story, and I just wanted to try some new story beats to see what you guys think.
What I realized writing this paper is that I've been fighting against doing the most famous Baba Yaga story, because it's really complicated. There's a magic doll. There are horsemen. There are wicked stepsisters. So I decided to start with a simpler story. But I've made it more complex. And I think that I can use the character sketches I've done for either story.
So. I'm going to try the big one.
Here are story beats for my incredibly condensed Vasilisa the Fair:
1. Vasilisa is kicked out of her home, holding a candle
2. And is told (by someone off-screen) not to come back without a light.
3. She wanders through the forest
4. It's dark and scary.
5. She comes upon her neighbor -- Baba Yaga
6. Baba Yaga's house is lit by glowing skulls, which form a fence around the hut on chicken legs.
7. We see Baba Yaga
8. Vasilisa is scared, but approaches
9. But Baba Yaga uses a glowing skull to light her candle
10. And sends her home.
I think that's about a minute of animation. No exposition, other than that Vasilisa needs a light. Only two characters to animate (three if I want the hut to move). All the reference I've collected still applies. All the sketches I've done still work. All I need is new storyboards and a new animatic and I'm all set.
Anyway! To me, this seems more do-able. What do you think?
2 comments:
Perfect! I think thats a great solution to you problem. You get to keep all of the things that were important to your project, (the characters etc) while shortening the story to something interesting and much more manageable.
i just looked at your new storyboards...much easier to follow...is baby yaga still going to be evil?
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