Progress.

Howdy all

For the clay head that I was working on, it is still in progress but I fell sick when I had a short break between trimesters, but I shall continue to work on it in my spare time. and try to upload as many photos as I can. In progress, I have a face mask that is 95% complete, just need to smooth the surface. I have started work on a full face and I have one side looking nice, as I am going to model one side than work on the other side. I shall try and get some images up on the progress on the heads.

-Joshua Out

Concept Hero Mask

Howdy all,
I have been a bit slack on posting posts in the last couple of months, just been working on uni assignments and testing out some modeling clay, and I am really enjoying it. Recently I have tested out the clay my making a small bust of a swamp creature bust which I shall have images up soon. I am still working on it, and I took some photos, but they turned out blurry so I shall retake photos. I also have been working on a hero mask design and this has been coming along nicely. The photo is 1 week old and I have worked on it quite a lot since than. In the photo, I am only blocking out the main features of the mask. I have created all of the features and I am now onto smoothing everything out and adding small details. I shall make a promise to have an image up by Wednesday.

I already have plans for new projects when I finish this mask, some of which are creating a monster/ creature head, creating some props of sketches I have drawn.


Joshua - Out

Joshua Fischle - Showreel

Over the last two years whilst studying for my bachelor of creative arts( 3D animation) I have came up with many concepts, characters and ideas.

Showreel  -  https://vimeo.com/73924474


Cheers - Joshua

new post for the trimester

I am going to start a new blog for a course that I am starting at the moment, it shall be a weekly thing. The Rykin story has not went far, the holiday break was a nice relaxing time without the worry of assignments or work. I have no idea what I have stated in older posts if I have been working on a new story, if not this is what it is soo far.

A book is stolen from a castle by the ice King who lives in his ice palace far far away. The book is the book of happiness, and parts of his castle always gets blown up from the little ice soldiers that live there, they fight each other and everything. The Ice king has had enough and decided to steal the book, and place it in his castle; this changing the soldiers and they start to repair the castle. The other castle wants the book back as they are now all sad, so their get their best knight to get the book back.

The rest still needs to be touched up, and the story needs to be adjusted a lot to make it more interesting.

I am going to add another post up tonight about stuff I observed while traveling to UNI and back today.


Joshua - out, until next post.

New post- update on the script and other stuff.

Hey hey hey.... The last post of mine was probably 6/7 weeks ago, that was a long time again. Just Uni assignments became more interesting. So, The Rykin story is on complete.. YAY!!! The beast no longer follows Rykin out of the cave, instead he just rams Rykin in the back and the egg falls out of his hands and rolls out of the cave and down the forest with Rykin close behind. The beast just goes to the edge of his cave and returns back to his life.

I am pretty sure there is a version of the script on here in one of the posts, and have drawn up some quick ideas, really rough just to get an idea of the locations. They look pretty kool for the amount of time spent on them. Hopefully shall have them up here is due time, when I get some time to upload them.

Just on a good note. I love Doctor Who. So, the last few episodes that have been on, not sure on what series it is anymore as they do the split series and 6 eps at the start/ mid year and another 6/7 eps somewhere else in the year. If you have not seen Dr Who, find a friend that has it and watch it!! (it has been awesome that last couple of eps). They have brought back some old enemies, not going to name them but the Cyberman, they got an upgrade and look kool.

Dr who does the next time thing, which if you have not read my previous post on "NEXT TIME", i absolutely hate it, it gives way to much info about it. and movie trailers... they do the same.. So What i do know is not watch them. Back to the Dr Who, When the episode was just finished and starts the "Next time" I was no long in a 5 meter radius of the TV. I was gone....  Each week I had no idea what the next ep was going to be about, and in my conclusion........(Drum roll)  It was AWESOME!!!   Yes, not knowing what was going to happen or what monsters/ creatures/ villains just made it 10 times better to watch. And I shall continue to do this for each new ep of Dr Who.

In the end, I shall get some more stories up. Slowly concepting a new idea that I shall add up here, might just place random ideas, might/ might not make seance, but oh well.


Joshua - Out.

Clay Project

I stated in one of the posts from early this week about a clay sculpture I am going to make. These 4 images are the 4 half finished sketches will be what it is going to be based of. I shall be placing up progress images of different stages I as I go along.

Images are just from a basic phone camera, as these are sketches that have been done on trains, and needed the quick reference.



- Joshua

Dedicated to my High School art teacher

This post goes out to my old high school art teacher. I am not going to say the persons as I have that respect for you.

I had this teacher for grade 9, and than grade 11 and 12. This post shall be about grade 11, and grade 12. Grade 11, the second last year of my high school years. So, each semester we had to complete 1 major artwork and 1 essay.  I would say about 15 people in the class, So there where the DH's, these guys would never shut up and would annoy everyone. Then you have the ones that also never shut up, they just talked about what they did over the weekend and their favorite actor and movie was. And than you had the ones that did work ever lesson and not much talking, which I was in.

So, the teacher did not give a stuff and the DH's not doing work, they just sat there being a pain to every one  in the class. And on of the guys in there would make lies up to get his own way. So the teacher just sat there for 3 lessons a week and would do nothing, or would go the the gossip people and talk with them.

So, would draw every lesson, or work on my assignment. So the first assignment I completed was a series of drawings/ or a painting. I can not remember which was the first one, but in my eyes the work I completed had meaning to me and a good look from anyone else, they would be able to work a meaning out of it. So I complete that and the essay. and the mark I get back is a "C". Now, so it's now the second semester and I completed the other work and I cut up an image, placed it in a baking tray back in its original shape and filled the tray with water, and freezed it for a good week. took it outside and dropped it, and handed a filmed copy of the drop in as well. I believe it was the painting this time. and another essay to complete for the end of year 11. I do both works and get another "C".

Now, what pisses me off, is I do the work, and get a crap mark. Other people handed the assignment in weeks to months later, or did NOT complete the essay and they get a "B" or an "A". no dedication on the mark for being late by months or anything. I am handing all of my assignments on time and just scraping the "C" for the first year. And in that whole year, guess how much we learnt...... NOTHING!!! Where is your teaching skills, or did you leave them at your house each morning.

That was the first year. The second year, I thought, the bigger the better. More marks of course.... Same rules where you needed to complete an essay, 3 sets of artworks. and 1 video thing of yourself. First semester  I come up with a good idea, Have a Knight walking through a mirror. Since the idea was insane at the time, and purchasing all the materials I needed was going to cost quite a bit, I want for the custom approach. So I used wall skirting as the frame, and I believe some industrial material for the mirror part. Since it was an art class, I got some 2 dollar foam/ vinyl  to make the helmet, hands and foot. So I made a wire mesh of the hand, foot and the helmet, covered it up with the material. Painted it and handed that in along with the essay when it was due. And the mark I got reflected my creativity. "C"

And there where the people handing assignments in late and not working in class. I'm pretty sure that one of the requirements for the class was to work on your assignment in class. I got pulled up for the mirror idea because I was working at home, and could only take it in once a week to show the teacher, but no. I needed to work on it at school. This was about 2 metres tall so, leaving it at school was a no go as junior students would steal all of your work, and the teacher didn't like to give back your work after it had been marked.

So, next assignment comes up and I decide to do a digital image of an eye on Photoshop with Photoshoped glass infront and behind the eye. It turned out pretty sweet. Went and got it printed on a board, it was not cheap and hand that in, it was in a plastic sleeve to protect it from scratches. Did the assignment and handed this in the day it was due, as the printing take some days. Handed it in and got yet another "C". I got the art work back and no plastic sleeve, just sitting on a shelf with other art works on top of it. Nice way to respect other peoples artwork. How would you like me placing some on some of your artwork that can destroy it. RESPECT THE ARTWORK!!!

So, it comes done to the last piece of artwork for year 12. So I thought, why not do another digital image of all of the works I have completed and some that where in my artwork and make a nice collage of work. This image was of shattered glass with the artworks on the different pieces of the glass. So this turned out quite good as well, It was only A4 this one and in a nice frame. Hand this in, I do the video and hand it all in. This assignment get me......Drum roll.......................... You guessed it. A "C"


So, that part that pissed me off even more was that in the tow years of completing art, all we had learnt was the teacher was always late for the morning class we had. Did not give a damn about the DH's in the class, and would gossip with the gossip group for most of the lessons. And give people good marks for not handing in assignments fully completed. Not completing it on time and handing it in months later, and they got "B's" and "A's".

2 years, you think you would have learnt something, even how to draw a circle or something basic. Nothing was shown. I would have learnt with a monkey teaching me how to peal a banana. Or watching paint dry. I handed in all of my assignments on time, and All I got was a "C". nothing more or nothing less. just a "C". and other people got a "B" or an "A" for not doing the work. If I did not do the work, I would have gotten a "D" or an "E".

What was this teacher doing. Getting money just to gossip to students about their daily lives and what they are going to do over the weekend. Your a teacher, not a student. Teach something, and do not suck up to the other teachers when they walked into the class room.

So, What pissed me off the most, I went to collect the work I had handed in,  the collage artwork for the last assignment. This was the remark I got:
                                         "I little more work and it would have been complete".
You do not say that to me when you did not teach me anything in 2 years, let alone the first year I had you in year 9. And You Say that to my face. I give you guts for saying that to me, but when Other students did not complete the their work. And in my eyes it was Finished.


So, I start Uni in February the next year for the Animation course I am completing and the first mark I get back from the art teacher I had was a distinction  for my drawings. Really, I was shocked from this mark, I am pretty sure I did not go under the Distinction mark for any of the uni assignments I had with this teacher.

Thank you art teacher from High school for saying I can NOT get anything greater than a "C" for my artwork for 2 years.




I do not even think I should sign this one with my name at the end.

Progress of a new

Hey, I haven't worked on anything that involves the story in any way. I do believe I am to start writing it up quite soon. In the first draft of the story for the creature, he came across a spider that started fighting with him. I have already made the creature Rykin in clay, I think 2 or 3 months ago. I have started to design the spider into more detail to be able to create a clay version of him holding a creature the same a Rykin. I shall place up some images as I go along and I shall add some new story ideas, concepts or anything that goes with the Rykin story.


- Joshua

Nintendo 64 racing games.

This post shall be about the old Nintendo 64 racing games, and some Playstation 1 games compared to now.

The first console I played was the Super Nintendo, and I was pretty young then. When we got a Nintendo 64, there where 2 main racing games I liked to play which were the Star Wars Pod racing game and a RC game called Re-volt. For the Star Wars game, you drove the racing pods that where in the phantom menace for anyone who does not know this game. You start with a few pods, and nearly every race you one, you got a new pod to be able to use. In each race, you needed to stay out in front with while keeping your pod in one piece. You hit a wall, you need to repair that section of the pod. This gave the game that extra difficultly if you kept hitting the walls. Repairing costed you speed and allowed the other races to catch up. You are able to destroy your pod if you hit something to hard, making the others to catch up as you respawn. The difficultly in this game was there, and each race you won, you felt something as you one the new pods. A lap of some of the  tracks could be anywhere from 45 seconds to 3 minutes, with each track is 3 laps long. Needing to respawn and repairing your vehicle makes it a good workout to stay in front. The difficultly was there in that game. Now to Re-Volt

A game about Remote control cars running wild in life size environments. 4 different championship that are range from different environments- museum, suburbs, toy shop, etc. You get about 6 RCs to start of with and need to complete the championships to unlock more tracks and vehicles. You can also unlock RCs by time trail, Collecting a star and arcade mode. The hardest part is the championship, where you needed to come in the top 3 each race for the 4 races in that series. You only get 3 restarts for the whole 4 races, If you come just behind 3rd on the final lap, you got to restart that race, you run out and its game over for that championship. Needing to complete all the races again for that championship. If that was not enough, there are power ups (like the ones in Mario racing if you don't know this game). Most of them can have some splash effect, e.g. There is a fireworks power up, that allows you to fire at a car that is visible in front of you. You can fire it and it hits the RC, if there is a RC close enough to the one that gets hit, they to will be thrown of their course.
The weapons can make you go from hero to zero and visa versa. the vehicles are so light if you run into another RC trying to make them spin out, you may be the one facing the other way. Winning a race on this can be tough as each race is complete different with the opponents.

As for a Playstation one game called Hot Wheels Turbo Racing. ( I do like my racing games). Even though it did come out on the N64, we only got it on the Playstation. The championship in this was more brutal in my eyes, you could come any place from 1st to 6th (last). to continue on to the next championship you needed to come first in the points, which meant to stay in the lead. As there short cuts on each track, taking these helped you to win, but getting in them sometimes meant perfect precision. Taking a jump on an angle only to think you are in the gap for the shortcut as you fall to the ground, respawning to retry again or take the normal route. Back to the championship, If you won, you unlocked the next championship series, the tracks and a good amount of new cars to use. If you lost even by 1 point, An image came up (going by memory now) of the trophy destroyed with some text. As a child, this was devastating when this came up. Spending a a good half an hour on a championship only to see this image come up of the trophy you could have won destroyed.

These games where brutal in a way when you lost, but it taught me I needed to become better at them, brake later into corners, you boast at the most important time, and hold onto weapons so you have it when you need it. Take a different lines into the corner and also I actually memorized tracks. All this gave me a fighting chance at these games.

Games these days, not all of them, but a good amount of them have something called "FlashBack". I have to say I have used some in dirt when I wasn't bothered redoing a section of brick breaker (I think that's what its called). Other than this I do not like to use it. But this feature Takes the fun away from the game just a touch, , as if they want you to use it. I know you can turn the function off, or make it that you have less to use.
As for the rewards in the games, I  don't see many rewards in this style of game, you get money to buy a new car, or to upgrade the vehicle. Some you do not need to purchase the vehicle, Its already there to use. I find the reward of winning some of these championships are not there as much. If you lose, there is no scene saying you lost, making you feel you need to do a lot better if you want to win this championship.

Some games do have the feel of the victory if you win after that massive struggle to stay in the lead. Also, just a quick think on games that give you money to buy new equipment/ cars. I have never been able to fail on of these games. And I personally find this disappointing. To have the fact to be able to fail would make the game more interesting for me, to show me where I go wrong and how to fix it for next time.

So, to sum all of what I have stated up quickly. I find the old games a greater learning curve and more based on your skill as a racer, as you can be working your way up the grid a lot of times in 1 race, and feeling relief when you one the race. Don't get me wrong, new games have it in there. It could just be because I was young and losing a race in the game was a big deal with what happened when you lost. Now it just seems like you can just skimp your way though if you want. Modern games are fun as they offer new ways to race and complete environments that you only dream about racing on. Also, I find there is a phase in games where the difficultly just vanished, and only now they are bringing back the hardness in the games, Which I like.

These are just my feelings on old racing games, and I love to play them now, the challenge and fun is still there, And the new games are just as fun.



- Joshua - Out - Digital word Racing!

Textual Analysis - The Croods

This shall be a quick brief on this movie:

Character Design: The characters are simple characters that you would thing of from stone age era, simple lines and some animal poses. The clothing is animal fur, nothing else, but does look clean at the start of the film. The father does seem a little bit to young. Just looking at some of the face poses that are on google images, they do remind me of Sherk quite a lot in they way it is posed.

Voice casting: The voices are all quite good, just as the father seemed he needed to be a little bit older, more rough and tough. 

Performance: The performance for all the characters where good, suiting the characters well to their body type. most of the characters are cautious with the except of  Eep (teenage girl) and 1 or 2 more characters are more physical driven. I do like gran and the conflict that Grug (father) as with here.

Lighting: The lighting goes good with the environment as a good amount is the sky. The night time scenes are well light and done, being able to see the characters, with the comedy or drama they place in there.

Sound/ Music: The music mixed well with the animation, it does not distract from the film its self.

Dialogue: The characters are speaking as they usually would, except in the start where it steps up the story which is telling you what is about to happen, I personally did not like this, but as the film started I forgot about what was just said. The dialogue between Gran and Grug is good, it brings that comedy relief in sections just for a laugh. It works as their actions go with this dialogue.

Story: The story is straight forward, no parallel stories or anything. Stuff that happened at the start of the film did come back in near the end, which you can forget but I don't see the need to remember it. It just works it way into a nice little laugh for the audience.

Production Design: The sets and props that were used at the start worked well with the theme of the story, but as the story went on, the sets seemed to get the fantasy feel to them, than went back to the stone age again. Not staying the fantasy part is a bad thing, it worked well with what was being shown in the story. The characters clothing was the same all the way though, which worked as well. 

The characters worked well in the shots, the main characters stood out from the rest in the scenes, with some coming into the spot light in other just to break it up. As the locations play a good part of the mood of the character, with the character usually centered in the frame, or just left or right a bit.

overall, this was an interesting film and in my eyes, not a usual DreamWorks film in my eyes.

These are some of Grug's faces that remind me of Shrek.

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- Joshua

Textual Analysis - Identity Thief

This is a analysis of the movie Identity Thief. If you have not seen it, you might, might not want to see it before reading this, not going to give to much away of the story line, just going to keep it brief.

The film is about a woman taking an unintelligent guys identity, and he wants to fix it. The actors for the film where alright for the roles they played. The characters where not spectacular in any way, just normal humans. Only a hand full of the characters were step up with information about them, mainly just the 2 main characters and 2 or 3 others. Most of the other people that were a good part of the film where just plonked in there with no character step up leaving me to wounder who they are, and what are their main reasons for being there.

The Story line just seemed they draw it out of a hat, and quickly wrote something up without much care on making the characters more interesting or pushing them to the edge, They just gave up to quick to even get a good response from me. As for the arcs in the story, the main one was right in the first 5 minutes but was not good enough to hold me there immersed in the story. As the film is about 2 hours, I believe. the next hour after the first 10 minutes just seemed to drag on and on. I thought I was going to miss my uni class at one stage it took that long. Nothing happened in this time, and was tempted to find something else to do for the next 2 hours before class. The arcs where way to far apart at the start.

The acting was alright but as the story was dragging on, I didn't worry too much about the acting. Some stages of the film, the actors where trying to make you feel something for them, but they acting was just not there in those parts, too far dialed down.

The sets where all realistic, nothing out of place. The concept of this film is alright but as the characters just gave up, and the story leaving out characters story lines, I got side tracked trying to figure out who the characters are and why they are there.

These are my thoughts on the film, others might see it different to me, I got no idea.


-Joshua - Out.

Next Time

So, This is my rant about TV shows that have "Next time" and they show a good 30 seconds of the next episode. The part I hate the most is when they show the main character, alive walking and running around when he was near dead in the previous episode. The TV show makes a nice cliff hanger for next week to make you watch next week, but then they show you that he is alright and there is no point in watching next weeks episode, all the suspense is gone and there is no real point for you to try and figure out how he will get out, or what will happen to the character. I am pointing this at the Show "Merlin". I watched most of the episode from start to the end. By the second series, I started to get annoyed at this "NEXT TIME". I want to watch the show and want to wait until the week after to find out what happens. Not find out what happens 30 seconds after the episode ends. For me, it made the episodes more boring with knowing what was going to happen. I'm not even going to start about the random episodes that they added in there and retold the story of an episode 2 or 3 different ways. So, in the end. When every there is a "next time" for a tv show, i get out of the room quick and far away from the tv as possible so I am more interested in next weeks show.

- Joshua

The next 2 posts shall be about The Croods by Dreamworks and Identity Thief. This shall be fun...

Stepped outlines

This post shall include the 1 line outline, 3 line outline. and a 10 step outline.

1 line outline

A highly evolve lizard needing to find shelter from a storm terrorising the island while the creatures on the island are protective of their homes.

3 line outline

Whilst out hunting the creature known as Rykin, a highly evolved lizard is trapped out in the torrential downfall of a colossus storm. After finding shelter in a beasts home, the beast gets revenge by attacking Rykin with both ending up in a pit. Submerged underwater, both try to kill the other for their freedom, Rykin able to get free from the beasts wrath and returning to his semi-destroyed home to shelter.

10 Step outline

1. Rykin out hunting in the forest, obtaining food for the upcoming days.

2. A colossus storm consumes the island of torrential downfall.

3. Rykin starts his journey though the wet environment to find shelter from the storm.

4. Inundated areas as obstacles, Rykin scrambles towards a small cave just a few hundred metres away to take shelter.

5. Recovering inside the cave from the growing storm, unaware a beast is furious he has company in his home.

6. Herded from the cave to escape the angrily beasts relentless attacks.

7. Seeing new shelter, the beast tackles Rykin from behind the bushes, Both tumbling into the gully below.

8. Swept into a pit, the water quickly submerges the two creatures as they try to escape the others attacks.

9. Destructive debris bombards the pit, giving Rykin the chance to swim away from the beast.

 10. Escaping the hole and continues for new shelter, decides to take cover in his home a few hundred metres away. 

The Synopsis

Since I have added a the images up, and a 1st draft of the Synopsis, I have edited it and came to this point.

Hunting on a small cliff looking out into the forest of the remote island, the creature Rykin, a highly evolved lizard hunts on an unsuspected deer grazing in the forest below. Arm raised and drawn back with his spear ready to throw at the deer just as the ground beneath him shifts. A colossus storm heads for the center of the island with thunderous noises close behind. Rykin plummets to the ground as he loses his balance on the ledge.

Plummets head first into the ground, his spear lands right underneath him as he body hits the ground. Recovers and gathers his spear as he starts his journey to find shelter from the dangerous storm terrorising the island. Journeys several different routes as many paths are inundated with water, he scrambles towards a cave he spots to escape the torrential downfall. A newly made gully blocks his path to the cave as there is no time to go around and find new shelter.

 Inside the cave, he recovers as his heart slows back to normal pace whilst it echoes inside the silent cave. The ground shakes as thunderous noises deep within the cave become louder. A murky shadow slowly draws near to the unaware Rykin. The shadowy beast strikes Rykins tail as he heads for the entrance of the cave. The beast dives for one last attack inside his home, unable to stop Rykin as he ventures out into the forest for safety.

Rykin opts for a small tree limb to look on for new shelter before the eye of the storm passes. The cover of a fallen tree he notices off into the distance would provide good shelter from the storm. The claws of the beast fly towards Rykins chest as he turns to get of the limb. Both creatures tumble into the gully below and are swept along the water. Relentless attacks come from the beast as they are catapulted out of the gully.

 Launched into a deep pit, deadly debris bombards the pit every second from the destructive storm. Both fight courageously underwater as Rykin tries to escape the beasts wrath. Flung into the wall with the beasts claws around his neck, Rykin swims away as debris crashes into them. The beast goes for one last strike as a tree limb grabs his claws just as he strikes. Able to arrive at the surface from his exhaustion he scrambles out of the pit before a large log falls in. The shelter he noticed before is off in the distance, as he heads towards it he sees his semi-destroyed home in the distance and takes shelter there when he arrives home.

The Conflict

The story of the creature called Rykin, I have completed two more images for the 3 main conflicts in his story. I shall add all three up.



 Storm hunter.

Rykin hunting on the cliff, Arm raised and drawn back with his spear all ready to throw. The storm slowly rolling towards the island with its destructive powers close behind. 

 Unwary cave.

Rykin Recovering inside the entrance of the cave whilst studying the remains of his spear, unaware that it is home to a vicious beast. 

Claws of the beast.

Submerged underwater in the pit filling with the debris from the gully above, the beast strikes Rykins neck with his immovable claws. 

synopsis, 1st draft for updated story

Howdy, since I have reedited the story again, I have made a quick 1st draft synopsis which will be redefined.

Upon an island lost in ocean where animals are lost from the ever changing sea. A highly evolved Lizard creature known as Rykin. Hunting with his spear on a small cliff looking out into the forest of the island. Arm raised and drawn back with his spear ready to hit the unsuspected animal grazing in the forest. Thunderous noises come out from the sea with a colossus storm heading for the island. The rocks underneath Rykin start shaking from the vibrations of the thunder, losing his balance and falling off the ledge plummeting towards the ground.

Face first into the ground with his body landing on the side of his spear, snapping it in two. Collecting the sharp end of the spear, he starts his way to find shelter from the dangerously growing storm. Redirecting his route from the path as parts of the island are inundated with water.  Locating a cave a few hundred metres away, scrambles towards the cave to escape the torrential downfall.  Crossing a newly made gully, entering the cave whilst get his breathe back.

Recovering inside the cave with his heart racing from all of the obstacles he overcome, hearing his heart echo inside the silence of the cave. The thunderous noises and shaking slowly starts to come inside the cave, small rocks start falling from the cave roof. Still listening to his heart beat, a faint thumbing noise starts becoming louder in time with the thunderous shakes. 2 hearts beating inside the cave, a murky dark shadow slowly drawing near to Rykin. Silence covered the cave as the thunder stops as the eye of the storm approaches the location of the cave. The beast strikes Rykin, scarring his tail, Stumbling in the entrance of the cave. Rykin dives past the beast to escape the devastating claws. Running into the forest unaware the beast has his scent wanting revenge for entering his home.

Seeking new shelter before the eye of the storm passes, standing on a small tree branch looking for new shelter. About to turn around and make his way to new shelter he has spotted, the beast pounces behind the trees, striking him in the chest. Losing his balance and falling into flowing gully, with the beast scrambling in afterwards. Dropping his as the beast continues to attack him. The creatures are chucked off the end of the gulley into a pit filling up with the downfall water. Struggling for gasps of air as the two fight underneath the  water as branches, rocks flow into the pit. The beast slamming Rykin against a rock with his claws around his neck, quickly losing air.

Dangerous objects bombarding the pit from the gully above as the beast strikes Rykin's arm. A branch hitting the beasts body, giving Rykin the chance to escape the grip of the claws only to have a rock fall on his tail. Letting out the air from his mouth instead of a grown, the beast goes for one last strike. Gashing at Rykin except a branch falls, hitting Rykin and the beast claws grabbing the branch and getting stuck.

Able to get out of the way of the falling branch just in time, Rykin arrives at the surface, scrambling out of the pit before a large log falls in. Rykin sees a new place to take shelter but notices his semi-destroyed home just upon the shelter, scrambling past the shelter and arriving at his home to take shelter from the rest of the storm.

-Joshua

grizzly tales for gruesome kids - Talking about

Hey guys,

I shall be talking about an animation series called grizzly tales for gruesome kids  It was done quite a few age now in 2000. The series is based on stories from a line of books "grizzly tales for gruesome kids". The series is just basic animation movement, I am pretty sure just 1 person speaking the how time for each voice and the narrator. With the little amount of movement in the animation works quite well for it, the only parts that are needed to be animated are animated.  Out of all of the series, the first two seem the best, the stories are more interesting and the animation seems more clean.

Each episode is based on a different story from the novel. some episodes are spoon feed with the information but they still seem to link it into the story nicely. As for the name of the series, it sums it up quite nicely, some do seem more violent than others and quite harsh to another character in the story, but in the end it comes out with a meaning, even with the "fantasy" parts in there. Each introduce the main character really good, and showing you their main flaw.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8UD_XUf5w
-This one introduces the character good, but seems to be quite harsh on another character

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viumLwxBirQ
- Sets the character up, but fantasy ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYF_YzrvGo&list=UUXa75Lpc2EaArUBFakANmJQ&index=13
- A story that about bad manners which get taught a lesson in the end.

There is one which the ending is impossible but makes the episode stand out quite well with the fantasy part.  It is called the butcher boy. It is worth watching but a quick outline of this story is: there is one kid at a school that likes to be popular, and needs to have the best stuff. If a kid in the school gets something, he needs to get something better. The butchers boy gets an awesome bike, and the popular kid can't find anything, so he ends up stealing the bike. In the end he learns his lesson.
 

Joshua - out

10 step outline, take 2

Howdy, I have reedited my 10 step outline. Parts from the old one are still there, just changed the mid way to end part more.

1. Rykin out hunting in the forest, obtaining food for the upcoming days.

2. A colossus storm consumes the island full of torrential downfall.

3. Rykin starts his travel though the wet environment to find shelter from the storm.

4. Scrambling towards a small cave just a few hundred metres away overcoming the inundated areas.

5. Fleeing inside the cave to take shelter from the growing storm, unaware a beast is furious he has company in his cave.

6. Herded from the cave to escape the angrily attacking beast.

7. Seeing new shelter, the beast pouncing on Rykin from the bushes, Tumbling around fighting tumbling down a gully into a pit.

8. Water quickly submerging the two creatures fighting underwater trying to escape and kill the other before they are killed by drowning.

9. Destruction debris bombards the pit landing on the beast allowing Rykin to swim away.

 10. Escaping the hole and returning to his semi destroyed home to take cover instead of looking for other shelter.


-Joshua

The Beast

The bird has been changed to a creature known as "the beast". The beast will have the shape and some features of a panther. Low and fast and will attack over his territory. Sharp claws with a lethal arm,  The back shall resemble a fish, but I can not think of what it is called at the moment. Short black fur, with possibly a hardened skull area.

- Joshua

Conflict Sketch

Howdy, I have drawn up one of the major conflicts within my story. The story has changed quite a bit now, So I shall add up the information about the updated story soon. This post it mostly about the drawing. The creature know as Rykin and the beast have fallen into a deep hole, with the storm still over the island. With out caring about the survive of themselves, they are forced to fight in this hole which is filling up with the downfall of the rain. Fully submerged underwater, trying to kill the other and get out before they drown themselves.  

Joshua

The Creature Questionnaire

Howdy, I have completed the questionnaire for the man character, but I will only be able to place half of it up at the moment, I need to format the rest as it was do on the train.

What is their most treasure memory? The first friend he made on this island when he was rescued from the storm that sent his ship into this island.

What is the greatest accomplishment of the characters life? Is there anything they hope to do that is even better? Greatest accomplishment for the creature is living on this island peacefully in his home he made.  To be able to find his family would be his greatest accomplishment if he ever finds them.

What would be the one material item your character would save during a fire ? The creature would save his hunting spear that he made the first day he got on this island.

What in the characters life do they feel most grateful? To be living on this island where no humans can kill him, or study him.

How forgiving is the character? The creature is quite forgiving,  we will not take anything to heart. Only in rare occasions where he will not forgive the creature/animal. This is mostly when a pack of animals/ creatures attack him or one of his friends while they are alone.

How much does your character feel in control of their life?  The character feels in most control of his life, except when a natural disaster comes and needs to restart a part of his life that he has already completed. e.g. needs to start his live over again.

Is it easy for your character to ask for help when they need it? He will rarely ask for help, most of the time his friends will help out if they see him being attacked or is trapped, and he does the same for his friends.

What does your character strive for most in their life? Security, excitement

Does the fact that your character has never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to them? It does increase its appeal if it is exciting, but if it involves water, he will strive away from it.



When I get the rest formatted correctly, I shall reedit this post with that information

-Joshua

The Bird - Questionnaire

I have completed the character questionnaire for both of the characters. This one will be of the Bird in the story, The Villain

How did your character get here form there? The flock of birds kept flying from island to island every year, birds would drop off each year when the island was the correct one for them

What was their life like before the story? a yearly trip to another island as the bird wanted to find the perfect home, fun and free.

what was growing up like? growing up was hard on his wings when he flew from one island to the next. Other than that it was a pretty safe life.

Did they have a good or a bad childhood? A good childhood, but was the youngest in the family and was the one how got picked on the most.

What struggles have they had, or hardships they have overcome? Being the youngest and needing to how his brothers and sisters that he was as good as them

Has their life worked out like they have expected? Yes. Finally proving it his brothers and sisters, he found a nice island where the animals on the island had some slips and falls which were funny to him, deciding to stay on this island for the laughs.

Has their life been difficult or easy until now? After he came to the island, life was quite hard, but now it is just a breeze.

Were they forced into their current path, or are they here by choice? By choice, he decided to stay on the island.

Do they have any regrets? being the youngest, meant being the most daring, nearly drowning trying to show his brothers and sisters he is as good as them.

Did anything happen in their past that they cannot forget? Nearly drowning in the ocean when trying to prove himself to the rest of the family.

What special circumstances have made them into who they are today? Finding the animals on the island like to try new ways of achieving stuff, and finding the ways quite funny. Mostly when he sees the creature named Rykin, we likes to mock him.

Super Objective

Life, career, personal goals outside of the realm of the story? to live free and settle down to make a family. To mock Rykin

Defining characteristic?

introvert or extrovert? Extrovert

more thinking or feeling? Feeling

fears/ phobias? Water, animals that can climb trees.

Hopes/desires? To settle down in the tallest tree on the island

Dirty secrets? Moved one of his brothers into a different tree on night where there was a snake in the same tree. He did bribe the snake only to torment him.

Tends to be self-centred/ selfish/ selfless? Self-centred.

Favourite and hated foods/ drinks? Favourite food- Slugs, beetles, green berries, sea-weed. Hated food- Yellow berries, white berries.

 Most hated activities? Swimming.

Most enjoyed activities? Mocking Rykin, races.

Deepest secret or wildest fantasy? To live in the tallest tree and to rule the island over his brothers and sisters.

sense of humour? (what makes your character laugh)? Major, likes to mock some of the non-flying creatures that try new activities.

who is your character's hero? the elder birds. They fly from island to island their whole live, making a home on each island for when they finish the cycle and start again, they have a home to go to for the year.

Philosophy and morality? To live free.

 attitudes towards:

Self? Protecting.

Others? Likes to mock them, but will play games and have fun with them

Friendship? Major part of his life.

love? Wanting to find the perfect bird for him

Family? dislikes brothers and sisters.

Food for Thought

 The death of a loved one? Moan for their life back.

A natural disaster? Does not worry him that much, will go and find a new tree/ island to live

Meeting an old friend? Major laughter over dinner, catching up on old stories

Meeting an old enemy? Will mock them, and lead them into a trap

What would constitute a perfect evening for your character? The perfect evening would be him sitting on a tree chair with his brothers and sisters looking up to him.

If your character could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be? To be able to swim underwater. As he hates water so much from nearly drowning, it is hard for him to get sea weed to eat.

What is their most treasured memory? finding this island he is at and making home here.

What is the greatest accomplishment of your character's life?  Showing to his brothers and sisters that he is a good as them

What would be the one material item your character would save during a fire? His birth emblem.

For what is your character's life do they feel most grateful?

How forgiving is your character? quite forgiving, takes everything on the chin, except when it involves his brothers and sisters.

How much does your character feel in control of the course of their life? Feels fully in control of his life

is it easy for them to ask for help when needed? He rarely asks for help, but it's not easy for him to ask.

What does your character strive for most in their life? To live in the tallest tree

How easily embarrassed is your character? He is not embarrassed easy.

Does the fact your character has never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to them? No, the only things this character likes to do is to fly, mock others, have fun and be free.


This shall give you some information about the villainous character in the story.



-Joshua

Analysis of the movie cars

I have been working one some rough scene drawings of the conflict.I shall get them up tomorrow. Manly this post will be about the movie cars. As I have been reading the book "Ideas for the animated short" (by Karen Sullivan, Gary Schumer, Kate Alesander). There is a section in the first chapter, so I decided to analysis the movie cars. 

I shall say who the Hero, The Mentor, The herald, The shadow, The threshold guardian, the Shapeshifter are/is. If you have not seen Cars, go see it before read this, It might, might not spoil some parts of the movie. 

Disney Pixar Cars.

Hero - Lighting McQueen

Mentor - doc Hudson

Friend - Mater

Herald - doc Hudson, Sally

Shadow - chick hicks

Threshold Guardian - Chick Hicks, but I would also have to say Lighting as well

The trickerster - Mater

Shapeshifter - Doc Hudson

This is my interpretation of these characters, but personally I find Lighting McQueen fights himself, with is young pride of wanting to be the best and to win the Piston cup. This being his major flaw, but in the end he over comes it in an astonishing way. 

I shall quickly review the primary and secondary conflicts in this movie. The primary conflict would be a fish out of water, as he is stuck in a small town with a population of 10 or so. The secondary conflict would be a journey which changes him in the end. 

- Joshua

Creature history

Howdy, always a bit hard to get a post in before the weekend comes. I have been thinking a lot about the creature and the villainies creature. For starters the good creature will be a mix between some different animals, but 1 part I would like to add to him is some sort of wings that goes from the elbow to the hip of this creature.  The only thing I can think of that would kinda resemble it would be one of the old spidermans where he had the web in that area.

As for the reasons for this wing, a bit of a back story which he will never forget. Watching how birds were free to go where ever they wanted, noticing that he had "Wings". Thinking that he could fly and be free. Going up to a beautiful ocean view, standing there on the edge looking out to the horizon, believing that his wings would be able to make him fly, Jumps off the 200 foot cliff.

20 feet down, and starting to flap his arms furiously, 50 feet and  and still nothing. A bird sees this creature and free falls with this creature to have some fun, mocking the creature as he falls. Now noticing the ground getting bigger and bigger, he starts twirling around in the air to slow down, landing head first in the ground, every bird around scatted from the place. Leaving his imprint in the ground.

The creature learned two important lessons from that day. 1: Do not try and fly off the highest cliff you can find, you will leave your mark.
2: never trust a bird.


The second character in the story, the "villainous" is going to be a bird as stated before, This is the introducing into the bird, but in the main "short" you will not see this, but the bird will be there. The bird is still in progress for what characteristics he/she will have.


-Joshua
  Note, Thinking about a name for the creature and thought of Rynik. Still going to think of more names and find the perfect one to use.

3 sentence outline

The three sentence outline for the creatures story is:

A devastating storms hits the creatures home, making it impossible to live there from all of the damage. Forced to find a new place to live with a villainous animal tormenting him along his journey. Seeking revenge from the villainous animals doings and finding the perfect home to live in.  

1 line outline

1 Line outline of the creatures story.

The creature's problems as he journeys for finding a new home as a storm destroyed his old home.


Joshua

10 stage outline.

Howdy, Its been nearly a week since my last post. In the next couple of posts, I shall be giving more information about the creature story. The list shall be: 1 line idea, 3 sentence outline (this will be redefining one of the previous posts). A 10 sentence outline and a Synopsis. Also going to start working on the locations and the creatures.

First of all I shall do a 10 step outline in this post

1. The main character will be revealed in his home.
2. A nice tropical storm will roll in and destroy his home.
3. The character makes the big decision if to stay and rebuild or leave and find a new home.
4. The character starts his journey to find a new home.
5. The villain will be intruded into the story, showing some of the major parts of him before his true reveal.
6. The villain mocks the character, makes him question his journey to finding a new home and leads him into a trap.
7. The character is trapped, but as he gets trapped, he sees the perfect house in the distance.
8. The character starts to plot revenge will getting out of the trap.
9. The character gets his revenge on the villain by using the same trap he was court in.
10. The character settles into his new home.



Joshua

The creatures story

In the last post, I added the end in that one. so I shall write the beginning, middle and end in a sentence for each.

The creatures get washed ashore from a devastating storm, now finding a new place to live on the island. Searching for a new home, only to find it is already taken as a home. Returning to his ship as nothing will every replace home.

Entry for a new start of idea - What we don't see.

This has nothing to do with the previous creature story or any story's, just thought it up. I am going to add the stories, ideas into this 1 blog and work from there. This idea needs a lot more working on as it just came to me. Also going to chuck around some different names for this one.

The story begins in real life with a child's hand opening the lid of a wind up box. inside is a house. as the child starts to turn the wind, the house slowly starts to rotate. After nearly half to a full revolution of the house, the camera zooms into the house though a 2nd story window, the camera continues to go out that room, down the starts and out the door will going through some other rooms. The camera goes out side the house to show a city. that is under attack. The house that the camera just went though also had the fight in there. Everything in the world is frozen until the camera gets focus outside of the house, and the fight starts again.


The rest of the story will be focused on a man that has to take the captains position and be in charge for the fight. That is the idea for now, it might change as time goes on.



-Joshua

The creature - Middle

The creature finds a nice tree that reminds him of the ship, staying there for half the night, getting moved on by a pack of squirrels that lives there. Moving on and finding a hole, resting there for a few hours few dawn. Dawn comes and he starts to more on, not liking the hole, he walks into a nice mud area, starting to make himself at home, he walks up wasps that live there and gets chased out. Finally returning to his ship, not liking the island and starts to slowly repair the hull and the ship part by part. 

I'm going to add the end up in the next few days, than going to rewrite each in a new post to turn it into a sentence or two for each section; beginning, Middle, and the end

-Joshua

The Beginning.

The beginning of the story film concept will start at the critical point. As the creature has been living on the pirate ship, the crew killed by the villainous pirates, the ship left to set its own sail. Caught in a deadly storm, smashing it against the rocks of an abandoned island. The creature surviving in the hull, left alone on this island. The creature sets out on a journey along the island to find a new home as the ship no longer sails the seven seas.

This is the beginning of the the story that I shall be redefining. This part of his story will happen before the long post.

This post may or may not make perfect sense until you read the previous one. After having some thoughts about the creatures and the story, This is what I have came up with.

The creature that is the main character needs to get to the other side of the island. As he lives on a wrecked ship, and knows that there is another wrecked pirate ship on the other side of the island. The creature is hoping that the item he is after will be on that ship. Believing that the item he needs to secure his home is on that ship, he sets out in search of that pirate ship.

This section will be added into the excerpt

Joshua

Pre-story for an idea.

A creature found its way onto a sailing ship in the 17th century, and lived in the hull. They lost a battle, all the crew where executed and the ship was left to find its own doom. Sailing for many weeks, it finally found its rest place on a deserted island wrecked upon rocks. As the creature grew, still living in the hull, collecting objects found on the island to secure and make it more like a place to live. As the creature adventured more on the island, finding that he is not alone with other creatures on the island. some friendly and some vicious. All the creatures are carnivore, making hunting for food harsh and they need to kill one other to survive, small packs are made with the different types of animals. E.g. Some of the small animals have made a bond with the large. The small will find large animals that will chase them, and lead them to an ambush where the large animals will kill them for food. the small animals also get their share in the food.

That is the history of the island and the main creature. The story is:

The creature finds out that a deadly storm is approaching the island, knowing that the storm will destroy his home unless he can find a object that will block the storm. This object will cover the entrance he uses which in theory should stop the storm. The creature knows both the risks of leaving his home with what could happen to him if he does, and what will happen if he stays and lets the storm roll in.

As the storm is three days away, he sets out as daybreak, trying to make some distance before all the animals and creatures wake up. As he follows the path that he has always down before, he gets to the end of the path, where it leads into the jungle where the most vicious and deadly creatures live. Knowing he needs to enter and get to the other end of the path, as traveling around it would take to long, he travels inwards. Keeping to the shadows and hiding when creatures are near. As his journey continues he walks into a nest of  animals, that only come out at night. He must slowly and quietly walk though the nest without waking a single one of the animal. The creature gets halfway and a part of his foot slightly hits one of the sleeping animal, holding dead still and slowly turning his head towards the sleeping animal to make sure it is still sleeping. The sleeping animal rolls over but hits another sleeping animal. The creature believes its save as he is unaware that the animal woke the other animal, he continues on his journey. Unaware that the animal woke and is stalking him for breakfast.  

As the creature finds a cave and sees the sun reflecting of the object that he needs to secure his home, he starts to become unconscious of the environment and hurries towards the object. Stepping on a trip wire that wakes up a spider. As the creature grabs the object and starts moving it, the spider comes down from its tree and starts making fierce noises at the creature. the spider starts attacking the creature, the creature attempting to run away and hide, the spider grabs him and starts to wrap him with his web. the creature helplessly trying to escape. The sleeping animal from before sees the spider and wants the creature for himself to eat, takes a running leap at the spider. Hitting the legs of the spider, releasing the creature from the hanging web. Falling on the ground as the spider and the animal fight, the creature breaks the remaining web from him and hides behind a tree as the animal and the spider go head to head for the victory to eat the creature. The animal runs into a bush and the spider follows, knowing this is the creatures only time to grab the object and make a dash for home. As he approaches home, the storm is only hours away from hitting the island. The sky turning black as each moment passes, the creature is determined to get this object to his home in time.

Arriving home just minutes after the storm has started to hit, using all his effort to get the object in the position to block the storm out from doing any more damage. he gets the object in position and hides in is home until the storm passes. Throwing parts of the top of the ship, trees falling. The creature is hoping that the object will hold. As the storm passes the island. the creature comes out from his home, happily knowing the object survived. looking out onto the beach and seeing the mess the storm has created. Animals and creatures roaming the beach to try and grab anything that could be useful to them or was theirs. 

-Joshua

Just to start of with a simple start of an idea.

The time era would be present day, based on a family to start of with. The start will be inside the families car just coming back from a holiday and traveling on a road that has a few fuel stations along it. just as the car passes the first station, it will blow and go up in smoke. Just after that happens, it starts a chain reaction and one by one, each and every fuel station blows. The camera shall zoom out and show the planet as the fuel stations blow one by one.

The shot will go to news papers being thrown on a table with important information. This will get across the information about the following few lines.

Shortly after this, racing slowly became extinct as there was no fuel to race with, car companies went bankrupt and garbage tips where full of cars. Transport will be turned into railed transport to get from place to place.

More of the this idea shall be added up soon.

Hey everyone, All posts that I shall be placing up shall be an idea of a character, film idea whether it be a the first idea I have of a start of a story or a more detailed story. Even some sketches shall end up here as well.

Cheers, Joshua