Script

Here's the original script I wrote up, story is largely the same. Still, I don't think this is a story well suited for script form.

THUNDERSTRIKE Script

Second Animatic

Ok, I've made a few tweaks here and there, as well as added a few details. Mostly I changed exactly how the ending unfolds. I think this version is a little stronger in it's direction, hopefully for the better. Overall I wasn't too concerned over acting and reactions, these are things I will work out in later stages.

Thanks again to all who left comments and suggestions on the last reel. I took everything into consideration and in many cases tried them out, but this is the version I thought worked best in the end.

Once again, the password is "trueblue".



EDIT: Please omit the fact that Rose's empty glass is missing after the dream sequence.

Regarding the title

coup de fou·dre (ko̵̅o̅t fo̵̅o̅′dr')

1. a thunderstrike
2. a sudden, intense feeling of love

Etymology: Fr, lit., bolt of thunder

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"Pour certains spécialistes, le coup de foudre serait la naissance immédiate et irraisonnée d'un sentiment amoureux pour une personne inconnue dont l'apparence physique correspond à notre idéal."

My rough translation...

"According to some specialists, coup de foudre is a sudden irrational feeling of love towards a stranger with our ideal physical appearance."

It's irrational. Blu doesn't really deserve the girl. He's a silly dreamer looking for love in all the wrong places.

First Animatic

Here's my first pass on the animatic. Done straight up in Flash.

Obviously it's very rough, but I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out. There are a few possible problems I've noticed, but I'll wait and see what people think rather than pointing them out.

I can't seem to get the blogger uploaded video to work correctly so you'll have to view it through my Vimeo account. The password to view the video is "trueblue".

Some Beat Boards

These were also on my regular blog. They are some beat boards/color studies for the dream sequence.


Blu & Rose ballroom dancing in the cosmos.



Blu & Rose on an alien world, blowing bubbles.



Blue and Pink colored squirrels chassing each other up a tree.



The tree blooms into hundres of pixel-like flowers.



Blu rescues Rose in an 8-bit video game-like world.

Synopsis

Blu is alone by the bar in a club filled with couples. He spots Rose, who is also seemingly alone. As she gazes back at him, he is immediately entranced in a fantasy dream of the two together. He snaps out of the dream and approaches her. In a shocking turn of events, Rose's boyfriend Noksek arrives and the two embrace each other passionately. Blu returns to the bar and orders another drink.