Introduction Scene

Introduction Scene

This is the scene that comes after the titles and the narrator speaks about Captain Cut-Throat.

In the book this image is used before the story begins so I thought the use of 2D with my 3D character would be a good introduction to my film because it is showing an image from the book to start with and will ease the viewer into the next scene that will be stop motion puppets. I will also have the last scene of the film in 2D so that it bookends the film in the 2D book style image.

To do this I made the poster in photoshop and brought it into Toon Boom, along with and a colour changed version of the background used for the cabin scene.

I will then animate a knife being thrown at the poster in Toon Boom.

I will add a photo of Captain Cut-Throat when the puppet is finished.

Adding the knives being thrown was a big task for me as I haven't used Toon Boom much before. I asked one of my class mates to help me with this.

I felt that the first knife being thrown was too slow and didn't look realistic.
I edited the timing and I think that it looks much better.

I have now added the narration to the scene and I think it makes the gaps between the knives being thrown seem shorted than they were before the narration was added.
I still need to add the overlap of the poster on the knives so it looks like they have stabbed through the poster.

Adding the overlap of the poster.

When adding this scene into After Effects I found that the scene ended too suddenly so I have moved the second knife throw forward to give enough time at the end for it to fade out.

I've made this image to use a place setting for when I add the image of my puppet.

Based on the book Here Be Monsters text © Jonathan Emmett 2013 and illustration © Poly Bernatene 2013, first published by Macmillan Children’s Books.