schedule

Week 1
Research
Develop Ideas

Week 2
Character designs
Script

Week 3
Story boards
Research background designs

Week 4
Background
Start animation scene 1

Week 5
Start animating out the Animatic for ruff animation
Shoot Live Action scene

Week 6
Record dialog
Start music and sound EFX
Finish ruff animation

Week7
Finish the hard scenes Egg attack
Run

Week 8
Finish easy scenes Mountain top
Dead flyson
Introduction
Ax to head
No hope
Stair down

Week 9
Color and tweak

Week 10
Add sound and put together

script

Weenie the Eliminator

a short animation

by

Jeff Di Maggio

EXT. MOUNTAIN SIDE

It is gray outside and a storm looms in the distance. Our hero WEENIE is seen scaling a mountain. We zoom in to see WEENIE closer. A FLY lands on his head we zoom in closer to see the FLY. The FLY sucks from sweaty meat juices on WEENIE’s head.

Cut to WEENIE’s face.

WEENIE

“Fly son go up ahead and check for trouble.”

Cut to FLY SON’s face.

FLY SON

“I have a bad feeling about this Weenie.”

Cut away, FLY SON is seen buzzing off up the mountain. WEENIE continues his clime for some time.

Jump cut.

WEENIE reaches the top of the mountain pulls himself up and Looks around. The terrain is temperate, there are scarce trees and small shrubs around in the Back is a fairly thick forest.

Cut to WEENIE vision as he looks around at the surroundings.

Cut back to WEENIE’s face.

WEENIE

“Something wrong.”

(Under his breath)

Just then an EGG jumps out from WEENIE’s side. Wielding a mace and jumping high in the air.

He attacks but WEENIE deflects his assault.

The EGG slides on the ground all bad ass and shit then looks up to WEENIE.

EGGMON

“We meet at last Weenie the Eliminator I am

the twelve of the deadly dozen Eggmon.

Zoom in to extreme close up of EGGMON’s mouth

EGGMON

“the D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R”

(in a evil echo way)

Cuts to Medium shot of EGGMON.

EGGMON

“I have eager to test my skills agen....

From off camera

WEENIE

“...Shut up”

Cut back to WEENIE

WEENIE

“Where is Fly son?”

Cut back to EGGMON, he reaches behind his back.

EGGMON

“Oh, you mean this.”

EGGMON is holding the mangled body of FLY SON. He throws it on the ground in front of WEENIE.

FLY SON lands at WEENIE’s feet

Close up of Fly Son.

FLY SON

“AHH, damn he ripped off my mother fuckin wings!”

(Spoken fast and with panic.)

Over the shoulder shot WEENIE leans over FLY SON.

WEENIE

“Fly son... no.”

(calm)

FLY SON

“Weenie, get my cigarettes....get my liquor....get

a priest.”

Zoom out to silhouettes of WEENIE keeling over FLY SON, EGGMON is on the other end of the screen.

Cut back to FLY SON. He now has a cigarette in his mouth and liquor by his side. A PRIEST comes flying in.

FLY SON

“Weenie do me a favor”

(weakly)

WEENIE

“Anything Fly son.”

FLY SON

“Hand that guy his ass hand hi-m

h-i-s Aa-a-a-aaassssss..........”

The PRIEST motions a cross then flies off taking FLY SON’s cigaret with him this happens simultaneously as WEENIE turns to face EGGMON.

Pan slowly looking thought WEENIE’S legs.

EGGMON

“Ha ha, how sympathetic.”

Cuts to WEENIE medium shot. He is quiet

Cuts to EGGMON medium shot. During his speech I will do some arts-y shit with the animation.

EGGMON

“You have no hope of beating this egg

Weenie haha. For you see, my outer shell

may seem fragile but I have been hard

boiled. The ultimate in egg defense haha.

Today is the day you die Weenie, for today

you messed with Eggmon the Destroyer haha.

A long anime stair down commences.

Close up of WEENIE’s eye’s

Close up of EGGMON’s eye’s

Perspective shot between the two with wind blowing.

the above cuts continue for a good amount of time.

WEENIE

“AHHHH!”

WEENIE takes off running back shot, long obscured prospective as he drags the ax on the ground running towards EGGMON. The camera Zooms to EGGMON who lifts his mace and lets out a war cry.

-Cut to LIVE ACTION here.

Close up of EGGMON as WEENIE’s ax hits him in the face yellow yoke flows out.

Long shot EGGMON falls to his knees.

EGGMON

“When hit with an ax in the face a sound

of a skillet sizzling is heard, they say.

I’d always hoped to hit someone in

the face like that someday to hear that

sound. But to have it done to my own

face is......Ridiculous.

(Dies)

Cuts back to WEENIE as he picks up his Ax and walks off into the sunset. Towards a dark castle.

Last

More

storyboards

almost done

Theirs not much work left. All that needs to be done is the color, all the major movements and lip syncs are done with. In the afternoon today I will be handing off my work to a sound designer. He will put the music and the sound effects were they need to go. As he is working on that I will be just coloring in my work.

working

I got a lot of work done the other day. Today I will be working on the sound and lip sync. The animation is almost done the only time consuming thing left is a clean up and color.

All is well

I have all my sound files for dialog. One of the harder scenes is done except for the effects but that should not take long. My friend is working on the music and sound effects. And I'm just animating.

working

Still working hard on my animation. For now all I am doing is line work, the color will come at the end being the easy part. My scenes are very manageable and might be done by the end of the month as long as I don't get any big assignments in another class.

Production-1

All is going well. My sound designer is all for my animation and I will have all the scenes he needs to make music to by Friday this week. My storyboards are done and will be scanned in today. The animation of the first scene will begin tonight, I may even be able to get two scenes tonight. The backgrounds also need to get started tonight for the first few scenes.

Week 3- pre production

I have my script, characters, and most of my story board. Next is sound and backgrounds that all souled be done by the weekend. So sometime maybe Friday I will be able to start my first scene. So far I haven't run into any big set backs except for time. but there is one big issue I am having and that has to do with the copywriters to the animation I just need some clarity on who owns the characters and story, I already know the film is owned by the school.

Character puppet jump - Eggmon

The hero - Weenie

The Bad Guy - Eggmon

Character Designs- Fly son

Bouncing Ball in Flash

Bouncing a Ball in Flash.

Short animation premise

So there is going to be this hot dog man "Weenie the Eliminator" and he is on this strange adventure. The animation opens with Weenie climbing a mountain. At the top of this mountain he runs across Eggmon the destroyer (a egg) the twelfth member of the Deadly Dozen. Eggmon has killed Weenies friend Fly Son (a talking fly). The film ends with a epic battle between Weenie and Eggmon.

This is not my best work but it did make it into Animation Magazine and it was the only thing I could find on the web. This was a project for my pre-production class we had to design a poster for our senior film.

Favorite animation two

Ok so I like two animations. This one for the quick moments, characters, Flatness and humor.

Favorite animation one.

This animation I like for the style it is drawn in. Also I think it’s a good combination of traditinal and limited animation.

Me.

I’m Jeff Di Maggio. I was born in New York but have lived in the middle of nowhere Georgia for about 14 years. I’m an animator (dah) mostly focusing in 2-D but can use Maya if you put a gun to my head. I am in this Flash class because I hope to have a career using Flash.

My favorite animations are....Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mission hill, Clone high, Samurai Jack, Invader Zim, Pirates of Dark Water, Squidbillies, Metalocalypse, Super Jail (which better get picked up for a series!) Fosters, Chowder, Flapjack and lots of others. I especially love limited animation.

I am sick, twisted, perverse, warped, strange, demented and perverted all that comes out in my work. When people genuinely laugh at my work I feel like I’ve done my job well.

Despite being so messed up in the head I give off the illusion of a regular guy, this is just to blend in with the normies.

Alright List Time
My sign is Vergo.
Favorite color, turquoise or black.
Favorite food, anything edible.
Dogs, although my cat is a bad ass.
Favorite movie genre, horror.
Favorite classic rock band, The Who
Favorite living writer, Max Brooks
Favorite dead writer, Poe
Favorite comedian/writer, Brad Neely
Favorite 2-D animator, Joel Trussell


Done.