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Project Notes:

This project was a semester long production. The purpose of this project was to combine all animation principles learned in previous classes as a final animation class capstone project.

Tools:

3ds Max
Character Studio
Photoshop
Premiere
Sound Forge
Audacity

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Preproduction Sketches
Storyboards
Treatment
Script/Shot Sheet

Kali-yuga

© 2004

 

 

Preproduction Sketches

Kali-yuga Preproduction Sketch - Shiva Front View
Kali-yuga Preproduction Sketch - Shiva Side View
Kali-yuga Preproduction Sketch - Objects

 

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Storyboards

Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 1
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 2
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 3
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 4
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 5
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 6
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 7
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 8
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 9
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 10
Kali-yuga Storyboard - Page 11

 

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Treatment

Shiva stands statuesque on the Mound of Creation surrounded by the primordial waters. He begins to dance the dance of creation and out of his dance springs a butterfly. He releases the butterfly which flutters away over the primordial waters. The butterfly arrives in a peaceful meadow. A wildflower grows in the meadow which the butterfly cannot resist as it flutters down to take a rest on the flower.

A dark cloud creeps in above the meadow. Darkness takes hold of the area as a foul breeze begins to stir the life growing here. Something is being blown into the meadow by the wind. It rolls end over end until it comes to rest against the flower. The butterfly, startled, flies away from the flower just as the wind blows the thing open. It is an old piece of newspaper which has come open to reveal an article on the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima.

The butterfly tries to get away from the newspaper almost sensing the wickedness of its content. It tries to fly away from the meadow only to come across a field of dirt with yet more trash in it. And in the distance a handful of buildings dot the horizon. But the city not yet content with itself grows with a will of its own. More trash takes over the field of dirt, more buildings appear on the horizon until the meadow is covered by a dark cloud and the dump of the city edges ever closer to its once pristine state of natural beauty.

The butterfly attempts to flee far from the city. But Lord Shiva has already begun dancing again. Something is seen to leave the primordial waters as if Shiva himself had willed it into existence. The object is a missile bearing the words "Shiva IV" - the fourth age when Shiva has destroyed the world he created because it has fallen into decay. The missile can be seen high above the city as Shiva dances. The missile gets closer and closer. All the while Shiva continues his dance of destruction until the missile impacts the city. A great explosion is seen which spreads out consuming all in its path.

The buildings vaporize on the instant. As the shockwave spreads, the dump is vaporized. But Shiva is not content to stop with only the destruction of the makers of decay in his world. The meadow, too, is engulfed. Once the shockwave has spread across the land, nothing is left save the charred remains of what was once a world. Contrary to what the beings who used to live in that world believed, the world did not exist in isolation. At all times it existed in the palm of Lord Shiva's hand for him to do with it as he willed. He saw fit to destroy it and now sends it back to the primordial waters as he drops the mass and kicks it away, only to resume his statuesque pose until he is again ready to perform the dance of creation.

 

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Script/Shot Sheet

Shot
Description Audio Assets
1
Long shot from slightly off-center to Shiva's left: Shiva is in the traditional "dancing Shiva" pose Sitar music

Shiva
Mound of Creation

2
Camera angle from Shiva's right: Shiva begins to dance Sitar music Shiva
Mound of Creation
3
Camera in front of Shiva, begins to zoom in: Shiva continues to dance. He brings two of his hands together. Sitar music Shiva
Mound of Creation
4
Camera zooms in for close up on Shiva's hands reveals butterfly Sitar music Shiva
Butterfly
5
Long shot of Shiva from Shiva's right: Shiva dances and holds out butterfly Sitar music Shiva
Mound of Creation
Butterfly
6
Close up on Shiva's hand: Butterfly takes flight Sitar music Shiva
Butterfly
7
Long shot of meadow: Butterfly flies into meadow Sitar music
Nature ambience

Butterfly
Wildflower
Trees and grass

8
Zoom in to medium shot of flower: Butterfly lands on flower Sitar music
Nature ambience
Butterfly
Wildflower
Grass
9
Long shot of meadow: Dark cloud moves in above meadows Sitar music fades to more ominous music

Nature ambience fades

One last bird calls and quiets
Butterfly
Wildflower
Trees and grass
10
Medium shot "downwind" in meadow of flower: Newspaper blows into meadow end over end Ominous music Butterfly
Wildflower
Trees and grass
Newspaper
11
Medium shot of flower and newspaper, angle slightly above: Newspaper lands next to butterfly. Butterfly startled, flies away Ominous music Butterfly
Wildflower
Grass
Newspaper
12
Medium shot of newspaper: Newspaper blown open over flower Ominous music Butterfly
Wildflower
Grass
Newspaper
13
Long shot of city: Butterfly flies away from newspaper towards trash dump and small city Ominous music

Butterfly
Misc. trash
Buildings

14
Long shot of city angled from city's right: City and dump grow Ominous music Misc. trash
Buildings
15
Long shot of city angled more extreme from city's right: City and dump grow. Darkness above everything. Butterfly attempts to flee. Ominous music Misc. trash
Buildings
Butterfly
Trees and grass
16
Long shot of Shiva from slightly off center to Shiva's left: Shiva dances as missile emerges from water in distance Ominous music

Shiva
Mound of Creation
Missile

17
Close up of missile Ominous music Missile
18
Long shot directly in front of city: Missile high above city Ominous music Missile
Buildings
19
Long shot: Shiva dances Ominous music Shiva
Mound of Creation
20
Close up of missile, camera angled down left side of missile: Missile high above city Ominous music

Missile
Satellite imagery

21
Long shot: Shiva dances Ominous music Shiva
Mound of Creation
22
Close up of missile, camera angled down right side of missile Missile closer to city Ominous music Missile
Satellite imagery
23
Medium shot: Shiva dances Ominous music Shiva
Mound of Creation
24
Close up of missile, camera angled down left side of missile: Missile closer to city Ominous music Missile
Satellite imagery
25
Medium close up shot: Shiva dances Ominous music Shiva
Mound of Creation
26
Long shot angled from city's right: Missile impacts city. Explosion Ominous music

Buildings
Missile
Misc. trash

27
Long shot from front of city: Shockwave disintegrates city. Spreads outward. Ominous music Misc. trash
28
Long shot of meadow: Shockwave spreads. Meadow disintegrates. Ominous music

Trees and grass
Butterfly
Newspaper

29
Camera zooms out to reveal everything is a charred mass Sitar music Charred mass
30
Zoom out from charred mass. Camera continues to zoom out to reveal charred mass in Shiva's hand. Shiva drop-kicks charred mass into water Sitar music
Splash

Shiva
Mound of Creation
Charred mass

31
Long shot from Shiva's left: Shiva returns to traditional "dancing Shiva" pose Sitar music Shiva
Mound of Creation

 

 

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