Final Project - "King of the Swamp"

Follows the perils of Jason Hix as he journeys through a Swamp to become the King. Enjoy!

Song Credits: King of the Swamp by The Civil Slingers.

Animatic

Story Boards

 

Treatment and Timeline

Treatment: My project is a bit open ended in how it develops, as I feel the creation of a music video is a dynamic doing.  I will be creating a music video to a song by The Civil Slingers, called King of The Swamp.   

Link to the song: http://thecivilslingers.bandcamp.com/track/king-of-the-swamp

The song is full of energy and this energy was my main drawing in making a music video for it.  The gritty rough sound it has coupled with the punk/country/rock style seemed to open up a wide array of abstract places I could take this.  

I wanted to focus with the set piece of a swamp and some main protagonists, who will be the “King of the Swamp” or at least how this particular guy sees it.  The idea will be show this character’s whimsical fantasy world he sees himself in.  A main aspect will be an airboat, with other swamp cliches thrown in abstractly such as mosquitos and alligators.

The beginning of the video will consist of the “King” getting ready and entering into his airboat.  As the song increases in intensity the airboat will speed towards the camera and go into the mouth of the “King” as the singer in the song is whaling away. What follows is however the video seems to flow in the making, but I have plenty of concepts and ideas to fill the music video in (shown in the Story Boards).  I want the video to chronicle the King’s journey through the swamp as he rises up to become the “King.”  Two examples of this is him fighting off the Alligator suspended in mid air and standing off against a squadron of giant mosquitos.  As the video progresses I want the King’s view to become more abstract until it becomes a mess of graphics of all things pertaining to a Swamp to where the King sits upon his thrown.

October 25th: Finish complete animatic sequence.  Start creating character elements and backgrounds

November 1st: Complete opening sequence fully, Finish backgrounds for throughout the videos. Have most of them ready to go in their final stages.

November 8th: Complete all the character elements and color them in to their final stage.  Have up past the King/Alligator fight finished and keyframed.

November 15th: Complete video throughout to sitting on the throne.

November 29th: Fine tune, Put everything together, sync music and render.

My Rotoscope

Angels in America MoGraph

I choose to recreate the scene, when Al Pacino's character is sick and dying.  I thought the blue tone of the scene with the rain outside in the cityscape was really cool, thus my main inspiration for trying out this Motion Graphic.

Background for Roto

Went under a little redesign. Choose to try and recreate a China Town esque setting.

Still a work in progress...