Thursday, December 3, 2009

TF1 - Storyboards, Tranquility 02 Outro


And here is the outro sequence of boards for the post-Shockwave Boss Battle. Oh, it pained me to draw that gaping hole in his chest, like I killed my baby or something...looked cool though.











I love that Optimus line that Flint and John wrote, it conveys the true character of Prime so well. I was pretty off-put by the basic 'assassination' Prime did on the Shanghai Decept Demolishor in TF2 - it was way off character.


This hand frame is a consolidation of the following four frames, just in case they didn't have the time to animate all the cuts. Which, it turned out, was the case with most of these...







This was meant to be a crane shot, lifting up and over as the Autobots drove off. I know I added the text for the direction and the GO TO GAMEPLAY tag, that file must be lost in the digital realm somewhere...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

TF1 - Storyboards, Tranquility 02 Intro

This is a cutscene based around the backyard meeting at Sam's house, we changed the ending to amp up the drama and transition to gameplay, by turning the Sector 7 discovery into an attack to jumpstart the level.

























Tuesday, December 1, 2009

TF1 - Storyboards, Tranquility 01 Outro

This is the outro to the first Tranquility level, based around the Autobots coming to Earth, finding their alt modes, and meeting Sam for the first time. Pretty much how it happens in the movie, but without the dork saying it's 'better than Armageddon!'





















Go to gameplay? I guess I forgot to add that tag...