Kirsty Li's Animation production blog

Friday, 6 March 2015

Storyboarding - Morio's Grand Adventure part 01

Storyboarding - Morio's Grand Adventure

Part 01

EXT. PEACEFUL VILLAGE - IN FRONT OF MORIO'S HUT EARLY MORNING
The animation starts off with a black scene with bold letter text across it saying “In a realm far far away there lies a peaceful village...” Then it fades into the peaceful village where Morio is practising some sword techniques in front of a training dummy.Few minutes later in a flash of light a Letter girl comes running along to morio and hands him a letter that says, “Morio,Morio,Morio. I really need your help Morio.I'm trapped inside a mansion and want to get out.The sooner you find me the better,Morio! From princess Apple.” With a determined look on his face,Morio runs off to the opposite direction to find the princess and the Letter girl dashes off as well.

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To be continued ...

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Morio's Grand Adventure Script

Morio's Grand Adventure

written by Kirsty Li

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EXT. ENTRANCE OF A FOREST CLEARING EARLY MORNING
MORIO arrives at the entrance of a forest clearing where he is standing just a few steps near a statue. As he get closer to the statue, he notice that the statue was of the princess herself,Princess Apple. Flying around the statue was a ZOMBEE a Morio walks around the statue and captures it into a jug before heading off into the mansion main entrance.

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EXT.MANSION MAIN ENTRANCE – GRIZZLE'S GRAVEYARD EARLY MORING
MORIO arrives at the Grizzle's Graveyard where a ghost of a bear and a little ghost lies between him and the mansion main entrance.To get past them MORIO has to distract the little ghost while trying to get to the bear ghost at the same time.As he get closer to the bear ghost he was able to defeat him instantly by hitting him once on the head. Once the little ghost and the bear ghost was defeated he was able to move on into the main entrance.

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INT.MANSION MAIN ENTRANCE MORING
MORIO steps into the main entrance of the mansion where a gigantic zomroom is in his way. To be able to defeat him as well he has to find his weak spot (his back) and slash him down into the ground.But during the battle he was bitten by the zomroom and turn into a half-zombie Right after that MORIO moves on again to the next and last room.

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INT. MANSION MAIN HALL MORNING
MORIO steps into the mansion main hall and looks around. Few minutes later a staggering bird slowly drags itself into the room,where it lies down in front of his feet. The bird takes in a deep breath and chirps out in pain. The bird then indicates with his wings to tell Morio that the girl he is looking for lies through the door behind him. He also tells him that he should be aware of the bear that lies just beyond that door. The bird also told him that GRIZZLE is afraid of bees. MORIO nodded back in acknowledgement and shows him the bee that he had caught earlier at the garden just before the bird dies right in front of his eyes.He covers the bird with his shield and right at that moment he hears a loud girly scream coming through the door.

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INT. GRIZZLE'S MANSION LIVING ROOM MORNING
MORIO arrives in the next and final room where GRIZZLE is standing right between him and princess apple. To be able to rescue the princess he has to defeat GRIZZLE himself.There was a trick to defeating GRIZZLE and that would be the ZOMBEE.He takes the jug out from under his armour and lets the bee out from inside it. The ZOMBEE buzz around the living room chasing GRIZZLE, who dashes all around the place being scared of it,until it stabs him on his bum and jumps up in pain and ran out of the room.The ZOMBEE lies down on the table tried from all the flying around and MORIO put him back inside the jug. As soon as he did that,he start to sway around while standing still,just as PRINCESS APPLE walked slowly towards him. When PRINCESS APPLE get closer towards MORIO, he becomes still. Princess APPLE said her thanks with a bright smile on her face,and MORIO replied back with a kiss on her hand. But as soon as that happen,MORIO starts to sway around more wildly and eventually turns into a zombie. As he sways around PRINCESS APPLE becomes scared of him and then without warning MORIO THE PALADIN ZOMBIE eats PRINCESS APPLE up on the spot. Scene fades to black with credits.

THE END

Morio's Grand Adventure Character designs

1. Morio the paladin

and Grizzle

2. Princess Apple

3. Ghost and Zomroom

Coming up soon will be a re-write

of the script of "Zombie Morio Land" to be changed into

"Morio's Grand Adventure"

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Morio's Grand Adventure Character List

1. Morio

A paladin hero who is brave and hard working on the outside

but on the inside he is calm, cool and cautious

2. Princess Apple

A princess who is sour and mean on the outside

but on the inside she is a sweet and well mannered princess

4. Zomroom

They are a type of poisonous zombie mushrooms that can be found

bouncing in the mansion hallway.

Just one touch they will poison their target and

turns them into zombies so avoid them at all cost

5. Ghosts

The lost souls that wander through the mansion.

They were once humans but somehow become Grizzle's

midnight snack

6. Grizzle

A bear that hates Morio. He is has his own mansion.

He will do anything to gain the love of princess apple who has

no intention to become his wife

I had decided not to use Zragon in the project anymore

because I can't seem to be able to draw "evil" dragons so

I have decided to use Grizzle instead.

Update - changes that need to be made

Due to some delays, the story of "Zombie Morio Land" will be scrapped

except for the plotline which is still the same.

"Morio's Grand Adveture"

"Morio's plan is to rescue princess apple but to do that he has

to complete 2 difficult tasks, and by defeating the final boss,

his price was to eat princess apple instead of saving her"

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Zombie Morio Land Character concepts

Zorio

Princess Apple

Zragon

Zombie Zorio and Zomroom

Ghosts

The character designs are based off Super mario bros
I have tried my best to not be based off it too much
Coming up soon will be the mood board and the script
there will also be an explaination with
in-depth information about the character design

Zombie Morio Land Script

Zombie Morio Land

WRITTEN BY KIRSTY LI

EXT. ZRAGON'S HANUNTED MANSION NIGHT

The animation starts off with the main menu. The title ZOMBIE MORIO LAND and three selections subtitles START, LOAD and QUIT appear in front of the background. While at the same time creepy ghostly music plays in the background. As the START is being selected camera pans to the entrance of the mansion,with ZORIO walking happily towards it,not aware where he is. Scene fades out.

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INT. HAUNTED MANSION ENTRANCE HALLWAY NIGHT

ZORIO enters the main entrance where a large painting of the previous owner of the mansion hangs on the wall with chandeliers dandling above him. As ZORIO looks up at the ceiling a ghost flies around the chandelier being cheeky with it until it falls down. ZORIO dodges the chandelier as it falls down, the ceiling start to jerk and that made him look up at it again. The ceiling drops down fast before it slows down just as ZORIO runs to the hole and slides down into it.

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INT. BASEMENT HALLWAY NIGHT

ZORIO arrives at the basement where a poisonous ZOMROOM is blocking his way to the next and final room. He has to find a way out of there alive and to do that he got poisoned himself and turns into a zombie. Before ZORIO goes towards the next room,he has to heal himself with an antidote. With some luck he was able to find one in a box with a exclamation mark on it and he was cured. Scene fades out.

QUICK FADE IN TO

INT. BASEMENT CELL NIGHT

ZORIO arrives at a cell in the basement where there is no one there,until ZRAGON THE DRAGON comes into the cell with PRINCESS APPLE he is about to save. He defeats ZRAGON by jumping onto him instantly killing him,before he saves the princess. PRINCESS APPLE is pleased that he has saved her as he kisses her on her hand but she didn't know that he is one of ZRAGON's infected zombies and he eat her up in the end. Scene ends by fading to black with credits