Ebullient Toadstool - Art Of

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The Ebullient

Toadstool

By

Nat Urwin

Draft 1

Nat Urwin

BA (Hons) CG Art & Animation

UCA Rochester

www.skygecko-nat.blogspot.co.uk

INT. TITLE SEQUENCE.

The animation starts with a blank page. A few blank sheets of

paper with faint ripple repeat for a second. Then lines start to

squiggle across the page to form the title ‘The Ebullient

Toadstool’. Followed by some thicker lines which form the words

‘By NU’. The title is held on screen for five seconds. The words

then dissipate back into squiggly lines which then form the

character of the TOADSTOOL.

INT. CHARACTER INTRODUCTION.

The toadstool character is seen to be excited and warming up for

something, at this point it is not known what he is preparing for.

There is a faint humming / engine noise to this scene. As the

toadstool is preparing, a small triangle appears in the right side

of the image and starts unzipping a doorway. There is the sound ofa zip un-zipping for this section. The engine hum sound begins to

get louder, now with a heavy wind noise. The toadstool, now in the

left section of the screen becomes ecstatic and gets ready to head

through the door. The toadstool runs toward the door and jumps

out. As he jumps, his shadow disappears from the ground to signify

theres nothing below him to cast a shadow on. The camera follows.

There is a lot of heavy fast wind sound and the engine sound

becomes gradually distant. The camera films as the toadstool turns

around in freefall, allowing the illusion of a fellow skydiver

maneuvering around as they both fall.

INT. PHASE TWO, ENTER THE BIRD.

As the toadstool is falling, a spec begins to show in the shot,

and gets bigger. This spec then comes into view as a BIRD. They

collide, as this happens a love song begins to play, giving the

footage a new perspective and the illusion they are having a slow

dance in mid air. The bird and toadstool separate, the bird flies

off toward the camera bum first, while the toadstool continues to

free-fall. The camera goes back to following the toadstool at

different angles again.

INT. PARACHUTE.

The toadstool sucks his body in to brace himself. He then

stretches back out and his cap flies off, and puffs up into theopening parachute, here there is the sound of flapping fabric made

by the parachute. The gills from under the cap turn into the

parachute’s cables. He goes out of shot as the speed difference

between the cameraman and the toadstool change. The toadstool then

floats into shot with his open parachute, the sound in this

section is less windy, with quite a calm slight flapping material

noise coming from the parachute. The toadstool then flies of

screen again.

INT. LANDING.

The camera shot changes to a more distant shot. The toadstool

appears from the top left side of the screen still with his

parachute. Then the toadstool and parachute separate, the

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toadstool falling a short distance to a splat, but then forms

himself back into a toadstool. Meanwhile his parachute turns back

into his cap and falls to the side of him with a slight rock as it

lands and settles. The toadstool looks across, pauses, then

summersaults his head back into his cap with a POP. While he is

stool in one piece again the camera zooms to the toadstool, he

does a little wiggle of excitement. END.

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