Premise
Piggy is a very clever pig. But an unfortunate day is coming, Piggy is seized by a butcher-Blake and taken to processing factory for canned pork. When Blake pulls down the operating handle of canning machine without hesitation, does the clever Piggy can escape there successfully?
Synopsis
The weather is very nice today. Blake is smoking beside the window. Suddenly, he grins and turns to the room. Looking at the piggy lying on the conveyor belt of canning machine, Blake pulls down the switch lever of the machine without any hesitation.
With the starting sound of the machine, the conveyor belt also begins to rotate slowly and the switch blade on the machine starts to cut. An unconscious pig is lying on it and his name is Piggy. Unfortunately, his life is likely to stop here and he will be made as delicious canned pork. A club is standing beside Piggy's head and a knife is thrown at the table near the machine with half of handle outside the table. Another very long stick is leaning against the table with an iron hook on one end which is used for hanging pork slices on the wall by Blake. The iron shelf for hanging pork is nailed on the wall above the table and seems shaky and unsteady. At this moment, a hungry mosquito is flying into the room and becomes excited when he saw Piggy is lying there. Staring at the round paunch of Piggy, the mosquito has prepared to sprint sneak attack in the air. Suddenly, the mosquito attacks to the paunch of Piggy. Piggy wakes up with a start when mosquito’s mouth is penetrated into his soft skin. Piggy looks around and understands what’s happened immediately and falls into fear. He is imagining that he is chopped in slices and his blood is splashed on the dirty wall, then the disgusting machine will press his meat into beautiful can. “No, I won’t become like that!” He shakes his head when he thinks about this and starts to struggle fiercely. However, he sacredly finds his hands are locked at both sides and can not get rid of it. During the struggling, Piggy sees the club beside him and he also finds the knife on the left table, the long stick for hanging meat beside the table and the pork hanging on the wall when he looks around. Another side of right glass is control room; Jake is napping in front of the machine. “What shall I do?” Piggy turns his brain quickly and shows his confident sight suddenly. Piggy struggles several times and tips the club down with his head, the club falls on the floor and rolls to another side; it runs over the long stick with iron hook beside the table and strikes to the iron shelf for hanging pork. The iron shelf shakes several times and the screw at one side is loosened, the iron shelf is inclined to another side at once; the pork on it is forced to slide to one side and rocks heavily. A slice of pork falls down due to dramatic shaking and hits on the impending knife handle; the knife then flies away, breaks the glass flies to Blake who is snoring in the control room. Blake wakes up in a daze after hearing the noise. Only seeing a glance of light, the handle of knife is hitting on Blake’s head which leads to faint immediately. The knife is continue to fly and happens to hit the “OFF” control rod, all the machines stop work.
Piggy on the conveyor belt sees the unstuck handcuffs and stopped conveyor belt with a pleasant surprise, then he jumps on the floor and runs toward to the exit rapidly. What’s is welcoming him outside is the bright sunshine.
Treatment
Jake is a butcher who looks cruel. He has a processing factory for canned pork and there is a crossed scar on his left face which is caused by an accident in work several years ago. He is very tall and strong. He usually likes to wear a greasy white apron full of tools. Of course, this is because of his profession. Piggy is a very clever and brave pig and likes to use his head rather than eating his head off like other pigs. After finding he is in danger, the clever Piggy starts to use his brain and escapes the misfortune by calmly applying things beside him.
The theme of the story is "pursuit of calm and brave". It tells us we should not give up when we are in danger and face it calmly, then solve the problem using our brain. This is an idea come up in self-encouraging condition. Not all the efforts will result in success, but giving up must result in failure. In the face of the rough life, we need brave try and calm thinking. The animation is about 2 minutes and 40 seconds to 2 minutes and 20 seconds with comedic style. Its target audience is people of all ages and it has educational meaning for children. But is it not a a kind of encouragement for adults? The story theme and content is very simple, however, the colorful frames and funny form is easier accepted by audience during the watching.
The whole animation is narrated in an easy and funny way. The color of frames and characters is bright and cartoon. The role of butcher Blake will be a tall and strong man with a crossed scar on left face which is in line with his status of butcher; the greasy apron and backward-worn hat will highlight his funny characteristics better. Piggy will be a very traditional figure. It is a pink pig with a big paunch and brown curly hair. The animation is started on a sunny day which will create a striking contrast with the gloom and dirty factory. This means bad things will come. The colorful figure will be highlighted better in a gloomy indoor scene and a little funny in suppression. At the beginning of the animation, the scene emphasizes Blake' s one golden tooth when he grins after smoking, this will increase the comedy effect. Later, there will be a heavy sound from machine operation when he pulls down the switch, the frames show the machine gear which is operating. There is a role designed for a mosquito as a turning point for Piggy to wake up and make the whole story seems not monotonous. At the end of the story, the whole frames are showing in backlighting when Piggy escapes to the exit, the video camera shoots from the back of main character. The tone of the whole frames is gloomy; he door is very small and brightly appears at the middle of the frame which is zooming in with the running of the role. This indicates our Piggy escapes from gloom and heads for sunshine finally.
At the early stage of the animation, adopt PS or Painter to draw the characters and create storyboard; After Effects is the best software for making animatic and Adobe Audition can be applied to add some simple sound effects. The production of characters and scenes at later stage can be realized by Maya; the combination of 3D and 2D is the main technology to make the whole animation. Big scene such as sky, cloud and mountain in the distant can be made with purely 2D; characters, building and props can be bloated with 3D to 2D technology for production. After effects and Premier can be used to combine and adjust the final animation; at last, Adobe Audition or Soundtrack can be applied to add sound effect.
Outline
The beginning of the animation shows the sunny sky and then title is dropping from the top right corner. After that the scene is turned to factory and focused on the window at last.
Character Blake stands before the window and is smoking, then he grins suddenly with the scene is focusing on the teeth and highlights the reflected light of one golden tooth. All the objects in this part show the bright colors.
Blake walks to the room and the scene is turned to the room. The color in the room is cold and gloomy. There is a big machine in the middle of the frames and suddenly, one hand appears from the lower right corner to pull down the switch.
The scene is turned to the big-scale rotating gear on the machine and then turned to the left. There is the insensible Piggy on conveyor belt and knife which is cutting rapidly above his head appear in the frame.
With zooming out to back upward, a mosquito appears in the frames. At this moment, the mosquito rushes to Piggy suddenly.
The paunch of Piggy is zooming in to the middle part of the frames and the mosquito is entering into the frame from the top left corner. It is bites severely on Piggy's paunch. Piggy wakes up and looks around.
The scene shows the knife on table, long stick besides the table and the hanging pork rapidly and reelingly. This indicates the inner hurry and confusion of Piggy and also a hint foreshadowing for later Piggy's escape.
The frames return to Piggy again. Now, Piggy is struggling desperately. The scene is focusing on the locked hand of Piggy. His hands are rocking all the time for shaking off it; then the scene returns to Piggy again.
Piggy stops struggling. The frames is zooming in to his face and become less clear gradually. Then it turns to a series of scenes: the machine which is cutting pork, blood is splashing on wall, then the pork is made into can. Later, the frames are fuzzy and turn to piggy's face.
This method is used to express the bloody scene he imagined.
Piggy finds the stick besides the machine when he shaking his head.
Piggy ponders a while and tries hard to touch that club with his head. Then the scene is rolling with the club. During the procedure that the club running over the long stick, the scene is pulling upward to the close-up of the iron hook on the top of the stick, then the iron hook strikes the shelf for hanging pork. The screw on one side of shelf is loosened and inclined to one side.
The pork hanging on the iron shelf is also sliding to that side and rocks heavily.
A slice of pork falls down due to dramatic shaking and hits on the impending knife handle; the knife then flies away, the scene is following, the knife breaks the glass.
The scene shifts. Blake realizes the sound and raise his head to look up and make a scared expressing suddenly. Then the scene is turned, the knife is flying in the direction of video camera and hitting on Blake’s face which leads to faint immediately.
The knife flies to the machine switch and happens to hit the “OFF” button.
Piggy is very happy to find that the machine stop work and handcuff is open. He is very excited and jumps down from the conveyor belt, run away out of the scene.
The video camera shoots from the back of Piggy. The whole frames are in backlighting and the door is in the right middle of the frame which is very dazzling. The scene is moving with Piggy running, the door is closer and closer and the light is brighter and brighter. Piggy disappears in the light.
THE END
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