Animatic #5 + Storyboard

Our most recent animatic with version #5. The narration is now delivered at the very beginning before joining the race between the two wolves, where now two background soundtracks are included for better pacing purposes; an initial track to set the tone and tension before the race, and a second track providing a build up in a pace and intensity before the final culmination at the end of the race.



Updated storyboard with our most recent changes to help keep track of things.

Animatic #3

Version 3 of our animatic. Yes that's my voice for the narration! - necessary to get a sense of timing for the voiceover so I hope you don't mind.



We had a lot of discussion over our previous storyboards and animatics, taking each shot and identifying its significance. Frames that were repetitive or did not justify itself were cut, where we have included a some new frames for better coherency and theatricality, as well as some experimentation.



The current narration has been abbreviated from the original story to better suit our purposes.

Script
A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves.

One is evil – he is anger, hate, arrogance and greed

The other is good – he is peace, hope, benevolence and serenity.

Which wolf will win?
The one you feed…

We're still ironing out details, but hopefully this brings us ever closer to our goal.

Refined Approach + Storyboard

In transcribing the original Cherokee tale of Two Wolves, our idea now consists of a race between the two wolves of good and evil, as they seek to control and dominate our actions by reaching the metaphorical representation of the human soul/psyche first (currently represented as a Native American Doll).

Throughout the race, we will see the wolves’ effects on the neutral landscape of the inner psyche; where the evil wolf brings chaos and destruction, the later brings harmony and life. Neither wolf will gain a decisive advantage, culminating to a stand-off between the two wolves. This in turn reflects the eternal strife within us where our conscience seeks to guide us to do right or wrong.


With this narrative in mind, Jolanta and I have been working on some thumbnails and storyboards which you may have seen earlier. Here we have arranged our ideas together to form our preferred approach thus far.

Essentially, the race is broken down into three acts: the evil wolf initially takes the lead demonstrating his destructive effects to the environment, then the good wolf later manages to take the lead restoring life to landscape, before finally culminating to a stand-off between the two wolves as they approach their goal.

More to come as we'll begin to form some concept art and animatics.

Thumbs/Storyboards/References

Some work in progress storyboards



Initial thumbs


Further references

Selection of Thumbnails