RE Animatics, part 1

Yesterday, I showed you the first scene from the never-released book trailer for Rome's Evolution. It's too bad because Bruce did an amazing job with the animation. It was so good that we discussed the idea of him animating the whole book but ultimately rejected the idea as way too much work. You can seen the entire trailer such as it is if you care to. Be forewarned: it's an AVI file. For the less industrious reader, here are a few stills from the beginning.

The first still is Rei entering the house under the trellis in front of their U-shaped house. The trellis was set up to protect the Bieraks from "falling blankets" which are the soft but occasionally deadly animals that roam the cane tree forests on Deucado:



Bruce made the trellis a little higher than I proposed in the intro to the book. I claimed Rei had to duck down a bit but that was to establish that he was tall or at least tall relative to the Vuduri. In reality, Bruce's design is probably superior.

Rei enters the kitchen and because of his sonar vision aka super-hearing, he is able to detect the bomb planted under his sink before it goes off. He races out of the kitchen and out the front door before it goes off:



Tomorrow, I'll show you a few more still frames from the trailer showing the bomb going off and the debris hitting Rei in his back.