ENDING NOVA SCENE

Here is the clip of Cygnus' final breath before he annihilates the whole solar system.
Click Here for the Low Res Version (2.1 mb with sound, TURN UP THE VOLUME!)

UPDATES - PROBLEMS SOLVED

Thank You Joseph for allowing me to present on Thursday instead of Tuesday. This is going to be my saving grace.
I rethought a couple of major transitions between scenes and some scenes need to be COMPLETELY reanimated. Considering this is my first time incorporating clips into Flash and then transition them into a story/interactive narrative means it has been quite a learning experience.
Basic shot layout - in order of succession. All the Circular Bullets are the NEW Scene Transitions that I will incorporate to create and bridge the gap between narrative and interaction.

• A. STARS INTRODUCTION [Complete] (slow down beginning contextuals)

1. FADE TO SPACE SCENE (you watch this, and hardly interact with it)
2. FADE TO REVOLVING STARS (same) [COMPLETE]

• B. MOON INTRO [Complete] (fix transition from A2 previously)

1. FADE TO WALKING SCENE
2. PAN UP TO PLANET IN DISTANCE (you click this to *zoom* into the planet).
3. FADE INTO REVOLVING STARS [COMPLETE] (add distant planet that blinks (EARTH*)
   

• C. LAB INTRO [Complete] (Fix Fade From B3]

1. FADE OUT FROM DRAMATIC "CYGNUS" SCENE
2. PANNING SHOT OF DOCTOR LOOKING OUT WINDOW AT LAB [Complete - Window Scene Not] (A spaceship floats in the distance - blinks and is noticeable - CLICK)

• D. ZOOM INTO GENERAL SHOTS (NONE OF THESE ARE DONE<> MUST GET THESE SUNDAY ASAP DONE AND FINISHED)

1. FADE OUT FROM THIS SCENE SOMEHOW AND LEAD INTO DUEL SCENE

• E. Fade into Revolving Stars [Complete] - Select {CYGNUS}-"I shall burn brighter then ever. Behold the glory of Cygnus!" , {CYGNI}-"Even you cannot outshine my hunger!"

1. / CYGNUS - LAB SCENE [Almost Complete - Increase in Energy Decimates Lab - Comic Narrative.]
2. CYGNUS - -maybe-POST-LAB - SCENE OF GENERAL WATCHING THE SUN BURST
3. / CYGNI - MOON SCENE [Almost Complete - lead to moon crashing into moon explosion scene]
4. CYGNI -- maybe-POST-MOON
   

THIS WILL BE UPDATED TOMORROW (MONDAY) w/ FINAL SCENE ANALYSIS

Intro/Post Lab Scene

Finished it up. Little rough still. Will tweak on Monday.
Note: All Videos are still in heavy compression while the sounds are large and uncut and not streaming. This is whats giving the large file size and shitty video problems.

Click Here for Lab Scene

LAB FINAL LAYOUT - F

Heres the major scene and layouts for the Lab. Just got to lay these out into the flash animation.
Animate this.

Menu Bar _ Semi Functional

Got a menu bar that slides down in Flash above the scenes. Just lets you choose a chapter (basically pages and spreads)

Final Itinerary:

• Friday:

1. Animate Complete Lab Introduction (1/2 page spread) - Scenes and Characters Done.
   
2. Animate Complete Star Introduction (2 page spread) - 1 complete
   
3. Animate Armada Floating Scene+Nova(ship done, just need animation+blowing up)
   

• Saturday:

1. Get Photos of General/Politician
2. Animate Star Duels (2 page spread)
   
3. Animate Meteor Shower on Moon/Gravity Change on Planet
   

• Sunday:

1. Animate Complete General Introduction (1 page spread)
   
2. Animate Complete
   

BLAH BLAHB LAH
Here is a screenshot of my menu for chapter selections*

Introduction Scene - Hurray

Well it has begun!
Click Here for one of the main introduction scenes to two of my characters. It is 7.5 mb so allow it to load. Its not compressed and certain parts are still in beta stages. First attempt at animating dialog and storyboards.
Low Res Version Here

---Quick Example of Cygni's take off---
Low Res Version Here

Cygni Challenged Cygni Scene...

Click Here for the 5mb flash clip. Will take a while to load...
Here is the pre-eminent duel scene...

TEST OF LAB SCENE

Click Here for a preview of a lab scene BETA

BETA WORK LOAD

A few scenes/characters remain. Listed as follows:

• The General
• The Politician
• Assistant (maybe? only 1 or 2 scenes)
• Soldier (only 1 or 2 scenes also)

Percentage Completion of Sets:

Distant Moon (95% Set, 90% Character)

• Required:

1. Ω[one scene of Peter dying after Cygnus nova]
2. [two scenes of bomb being planted (darkside)]
3. [revelation of bomb prior to explosion animation]

Laboratory (85% Set, 80% Character)

• Required:

1. ∑ [two scenes of sacrifice]
2. [two scenes of politician escorting out]
3. [two scenes of Mary's button animation]
4. ∑ [two scenes of Mary contacting distant moon]

General/Politician/Armada (15% Set, 5% Character)

• Required:

1. [two scene discussion of politician and general dialogue]
2. ∑ [three scenes of Armada being launched]
3. ∑ [the herald ship in correlation to scene 3 on Distant Moon]
4. [one scene of General in disgust]

ΩSUPER ENDΩ (60-90% Set, 65% Character)

• Required:

1. [GENERAL - IN COMPLETION OF PRIOR SET]
   
2. [MARY - COMPLETE]
   
3. [LUKE - COMPLETE]
4. * * EACH IS FULL FRONTAL FACE SHOT - SHOWING DESTRUCTION BY CYGNUS ULTIMATE SUPERNOVA.

∑Secret Ending

• Required:

1. Just a quick shot

Ω - All Scenes denoted with Ω are animations from within AE and require 900 x 675 comp
∑ - All Scenes denoted with ∑ are small animations within the comp size of regular comic frame.

Layout - Beta

Some more storyboard layouts. Almost finished scenes of scientists.

More...[planet 1]

Here is one of the herald warship's docking at Moon 3 prior to its devastation. (note that no dialogue/narrative boxes are added in this either)

Here is the first introduction series of frames for the astronauts (only one line of dialogue has been placed). The 2nd image is after the death of the astronauts comrade (which is incidentally prior to what causes his self-destruction of the moon).

More Test Boards

Animation will begin soon once I get a happy medium between my various scenes. Below is our astronaut of previous exploring the ruins of a distant moon from his home. This is prior to his annihilation. Further below is scenes of the scientist in his lab attempting prior to his annihilation.

Ship Tests

Here is General Fortuna's floating office

More Test Renders

Here our explorer witnesses the destruction of his very own moon...
(two different color versions)

Cygnus Cried Cygni Rough ROUGH test