This is gonna be really long, but bare with me...
I just did a shit ton of work, so now is your turn to jump in...
I just uploaded a file onto the Drive called Ebook_Library that has the rigs for the husband, super organized. There are alternate faces, hands and arms. If you right click on the head, you can say "swap symbol" and then choose the head you want (you can press ctrl+drag to adjust). Same goes for arms and hands and what not. Look through the options, cause I created specific hands for churning, an arm that's holding the churn, etc.
-load the layout instructed below, as a background, so you understand the staging.
-animate the character right onto the armature layer (keep it brief)
-You can do multiple animations in one file, just duplicate the rig onto a new layer.
-Save as an FLA and upload to the drive.
The exact shots needed are listed below.
SPARKS- I suggest you do 11 and 12. You're the strongest draftsman, so I think you'd have the easiest time with that, and you won't have to use flash.
If you plan to take on any of these shots, please post on here before you start, to make sure people aren't working on the same ones. These are extremely easy animations, so please do as many as you can as fast as you can, cause I'm assuming I'm putting the book together myself again, and I need time to assemble everything. Tonight would be preferable!
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE
Front Cover : No
animation
1.
ONCE
on a time there was a man, so surly and cross, he never thought his Wife did anything
right in the house. So, one evening, in haymaking time, he came home, scolding
and swearing, and showing his teeth and making a dust.
Layout 1: Simple arm
motions for husband, wife sweeps.
2.
"Dear
love, don't be so angry; there's a good man," said his goody;
"to-morrow let's change our work. I'll go out with the mowers and mow, and
you shall mind the house at home." Yes! the Husband thought that would do
very well. He was quite willing, he said.
Layout 2: Wife pats his
arm. Husband’s expression changes from serious to cocky & tilts head back.
3.
So,
early next morning, his goody took a scythe over her neck, and went out into
the hayfield with the mowers, and began to mow; but the man was to mind the house,
and do the work at home. First of all, he wanted to churn the butter;
Layout 3: Man sitting
on stool, churning. Face turns from cocky to worried as he churns.
4.
but when he had churned a while, he got thirsty,
and went down to the cellar to tap a barrel of ale, So, just when he had
knocked in the bung, and was putting the tap into the cask, he heard overhead
the pig come into the kitchen.
Layout 4: Do same as
Anthony’s animation last week.
5.
Then
off he ran up the cellar steps, with the tap in his hand, as fast as he could, to
look after the pig, lest it should upset the churn;
Layout 5: Husband runs
up steps.
6.
but
when he got up, and saw the pig had already knocked the churn over, and stood
there, routing and grunting amongst the cream which was running all over the
floor, he got so wild with rage that he quite forgot the ale-barrel, and ran at
the pig as hard as he could.
Layout 3: No animation
for man. Man standing furious over pig that is licking puddle of butter.
7.
He
caught it, too, just as it ran out of doors, and gave it such a kick, that
piggy lay for dead on the spot.
Layout 6: Man’s leg
kicks pig. (Keep the trajectory below the horizon line)
8.
Then
all at once he remembered he had the tap in his hand; but when he got down to
the cellar, every drop of ale had run out of the cask.
Layout 4: Man standing
with scared face, hands on head or face, watching last drops fall from the keg,
with a puddle on the ground.
9.
Then
he went into the dairy and found enough cream left to fill the churn again, and
so he began to chum, for butter they must have at dinner.
Layout 3: Man tries to
churn butter while standing, w/worried face. Puddle on the ground still.
10.
When
he had churned a bit, he remembered that their milking cow was still shut up in
the byre, and hadn't had a bit to eat or a drop to drink all the morning,
though the sun was high.
Layout 7: No animation
needed
11.
Then
all at once he thought 'twas too far to take her down to the meadow, so he'd
just get her up on the house top--for the house, you must know, was thatched
with sods, and a fine crop of grass was growing there.
Layout 7: (reference Layout_7
PSD file, for example) Maybe just a down shot of the house, with grass on the
roof? I don’t know…
12.
Now
the house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank
across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.
Layout 7: Needs hand
done, simple animation (reference Layout_7 PSD file, for example). A few frames
showing the man walking the cow across the planks onto the roof, or something
funnier, if you can think of something.
13.
But
still he couldn't leave the churn, for there was his little babe crawling about
on the floor, and "if I leave it," he thought, "the child is
safe to upset it."
Layout 3: no animation
needed. NEEDS RENDERING OF BABY.
14.
So
he took the churn on his back, and went out with it; but then he thought he'd
better first water the cow before he turned her out on the thatch;
Working on layout…
15.
so
he took up a bucket to draw water out of the well; but, as he stooped down at
the well's brink all the cream ran out of the churn over his shoulders, and so down
into the well. (PROBLEMS WITH RIGGING ON THIS LAYOUT??? someone with more flash exp needs to take this on)
Layout 8: Man reaches
toward well, pours butter out, faces changes from neutral to scared. *Notice
the arm holding the churn, in the library.
16.
Now
it was near dinner-time, and he hadn't even got the butter yet; so he thought
he'd best boil the porridge, and filled the pot with water and hung it over the
fire. When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the
thatch and break her legs or her neck.
Layout
9: No animation needed.
17.
So
he got up on the house to tie her up. One end of the rope he made fast to the
cow's neck and the other he slipped down the chimney and tied round his own
thigh; and he had to make haste, for the water now began to boil in the pot,
and he had still to grind the oatmeal.
Working on layout…
(probably no animation)
18.
So
he began to grind away; but while he was hard at it, down fell the cow off the house-top
after all, and as she fell, she dragged the man up the chimney by the rope.
Working on layout…
19.
There
he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung halfway down the wall, swinging between
heaven and earth for she could neither get down nor up.
Working on layout…
20.
And
now the goody had waited seven lengths and seven breadths for her Husband to
come and call them home to dinner; but never a call they had. At last she thought
she'd waited long enough, and went home.
Working on layout…
21.
But
when she got there and saw the cow hanging in such an ugly place, she ran up
and cut the rope in two with her scythe.
Working on layout…
22.
But,
as she did this, down came her Husband out of the chimney ; and so, when his
old dame came inside the kitchen, there she found him standing on his head in
the porridge pot.
Layout 9: man flailing
with head in pot. Wife laughs.
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