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.
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.
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 ...
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