Kitty is laying on a carpet in the front room, basking in the beams from the afternoon sun. A girl's voice calls, and Kitty starts, suddenly very worried with an "Oh Shit" look. It blacks.
Fade back in with Kitty sitting on the same rug, a humongous bow tied to her neck. She is less than pleased, to say the least. The girl's voice tells Kitty to stay right there for the rest of the surprise as it fades, indicating the girl has wandered off (perhaps with the help of footsteps).
From here is a series of things Kitty does to get the bow off, not necessarily in a linear fashion. Each instance doesn't show how she gets out of her previous predicament, just that she is out of it.
he initially tries rubbing it off, first on the fireplace bricks - does nothing - then on the rocking chair. She catches the bow and almost chokes, but backs out of it. Finally, she tried rubbing against the large pot for the potted plant. It falls on her.
She's finally out from under that heavy pot and plant, and now tries for the prying off approach. She gets a paw into the collar section, and tried to push it off. She instead only manages to get it caught. In her struggle to get out of her entanglement, her other paws become tangled, and she eventually rolls offscreen and with a crash the scene blackens.
Plan #3 is shown in simple, child-like drawings. It essentially shows that the little girl owner got something tight off by wetting the area down and slipping it off, so the bow should do the same thing. Cut to Kitty, carefully trying to get the collar wet with her water bowl. She loses balance due to the huge bow, and falls onto the bowl, overturning it and soaking herself and the bow. As she stands and shakes herself off, she finds the collar is tightening (shrinking). She eventually has trouble breathing and flops to the floor off camera.
The final plan: open to Kitty lining up herself beside a stand up vacuum cleaner. She turns it on, figuring the vacuum will suck the bow right off, but instead it takes off around the room, with her flying behind it. She is knocked against multiple things before yet again flying off camera and the scene closing with a crash.
Kitty is flopped on the carpet, defeated. She's panting, frazzled, and still has this huge bow around her neck. With a sigh she gets up, one of her paws unintentionally on the end of fabric. As she stands it catches, loosening the bow. With a flop it falls off. She stares at it, dumbfounded, then around the room, with a smile slowly growing on her face. As she takes a step to leave, the girl's voice calls again. Kitty freezes in an even bigger "oh shit," and it ends.
During credits Kitty will wander onscreen with the rest of the surprise, again less than thrilled.
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3 comments:
I enjoy that you put in the use of water to attempt and getting the bow off, I think it's a nice touch. I think you could push how the bow comes off in the end a little further. We expect that if you make it simple it will be her standing up or something to that sort. Maybe try using the broken potted plant. She is walking by looking defeated and the end of the bow snags on a piece of ceramic and slowly unravels the bow from his neck. The kitty is so involved in his moping that he doesn't even realize the bow is gone at first and it comes more of a suprise, just a suggestion. I think you're getting somewhere with this story. I can't wait to see it animated, keep up the good work.
I think the bigger surprise should have more to do with the story. Everything you've got is great but I'd like to know what the bigger surprise is, so you could use that as some sort of twist ending to make the ending more memorable. It could be something like the girl puts it in a cat-size clown suit to make it look even more ridiculous, or it could even be something that the cat would like instead of hating.
i think this piece needs to be greatly exaggerated, animation wise. the facial expressions of kitty will be critical for the audience to understand her frustration. i think animating a cat would be moderately difficult but animating it in attempt to untie a bow a hundred different ways is going to be a REAL challenge. make sure you plan every shot every motion every single little detail to the extreme. any doubt with kitty's motion could cost you hours and hours of time and mental break downs. good luck!
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