Storyboards
These are the main beats of How to Catch a Tiger Cub. We will delve much deeper as new iterations of the storyboards and eventually an animatic is created. This is a wordless film aside from a few growls and roars.
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The Script
EXT. TIGER’S JUNGLE HOME - MORNING MOTHER TIGRESS, loving yet tired, walks into a continuous circle with her tail fixed at the center of the ring. The carpet has a path worn from daily repetition. TIGER CUB, a fuzzball with endless energy, almost knocks over the vase which Mother Tigress prevents. Tiger Cub almost jumps on the chaise lounge, which mother tiger prevents. Tiger cub almost tips over the washbasin but mother tiger both prevents this and puts tiger cub in a bubble bath. EXT. TRAVEL FROM CITY TO JUNGLE - DAY The city is cold and grey. VAIN MAN, a European gentleman trapper, rides upon HOBBY HORSE from screen right to middle of the screen. Pull out to reveal that the background is literally scrolling bye from civilization to untamed jungle. Everything about Vain Man is controlled. His Tea bounces with each trot of Hobby Horse. The page of his book turns steadily. His cravat waves in the air. The cage swings in rhythm until . . . the door opens. Vain Man spins his head around
Hobby Horse Animation Test
The first animation test is in! We had so much fun designing Hobby Horse that we had to see it move. We will be adding a bouncing tail, turning page, and flowing ascot as well.
The Players
Mother Tigress : a loving yet tired tiger who has forgotten herself in her motherly work. Tiger Cub : a bouncing fuzz ball of never-ending energy. Vain Man : a Two-faced victorian era trapper. Hobby Horse : turned up nose and half alive, he carries great weight.
We are making a film!
Adam and Erin Taylor, the creative team behind The Hair Hungry Heaver, are teaming up on a new and exciting project - How to Catch a Tiger Cub. Erin is an accomplished illustrator with more than a decade of experience bringing stories and characters to life, with clients from Disney to Oxford University Press. Adam is a talented stop-motion animator and director credited in animation on films and television shows such as The Missing Link, The Shivering Truth, and the upcoming Wendell and Wild. How to Catch a Tiger Cub is a story inspired by a medieval bestiary painting of the same name. Vanity is just as prominent and important a subject now as in medieval times and so we set out to tell a timeless tale using a modern tone and visuals. A synopsis of our story: Life is beautiful for mother tigress and her young cub until a cunning trapper enters their jungle. When given a mirror, the tigress sees her own beauty and is captured in her vanity and temporarily lifted from her burdens.