[S] Rex Duodecim Angelus - Artists Needed

[Thedude3445]

The reaction image could just be a group shot, and re-using the page with Karkat's reaction to Feferi and Kanaya's deaths would be great too :P

Woo.

If Obs feels like using it that would be cool. If he would prefer sticking to the old one that would be cool, too.

Anybody else in need of a storyboard I can help with. Basically I'd be happy to help out in any way that would just be writing up a story because I can't do much else. :U

So out of all the sequences, most of them have at least one detailed storyboard except the ones bolded:

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0:00 - 0:14 (1-14s) - Shot of Black King's face (glaring menacingly with multiple eyes). Zooms out to full body.

0:15 - 0:30 (15-30s) - Pan shot of the twelve trolls, in order of introduction (Karkat, Gamzee, Terezi, Sollux, Tavros, Aradia, Nepeta, Vriska, Equius, Kanaya, Eridan, Feferi).
Everybody is angrily glaring back (about to get into the fight), except for Gamzee, who should have a zoned-out "What's going on?" expression.

(Backgrounds) 0:06 - 0:30 (6-30s) - Aradiabots teleporting in (ideally in sync with the warps in the music).

0:30 - 0:50 (30-50s) - Derse soldiers -- Bishops, Rooks, Pawns, warp/drop from ships onto the trolls' platform. Pawns align in formation. Shots of Bishops and Rooks in battle poses.

0:50 - 0:53 (50-53s) - GRIEF! lettering displayed.

0:54 - 1:10 (54-70s) - Shots of the trolls fighting the Derse soldiers. Karkat slicing a pawn in half with the Clawsickle. Eridan and Sollux blasting away a line of soldiers with Ahab's Crosshairs/Eyebeams. Tavros knocks over pawns with the rocketchair. Kanaya slices soldiers with the chainsaw... etc. As much as can reasonably be fit into a little less than half a minute.

1:10 - 1:15 (70-75s) - Trolls triumphantly standing over the bodies of the defeated soldiers. Look up in surprise and see incoming attack from the King.

1:16 - 1:33 (76-93s) - King strikes the Trolls' platform with tentacles. Shots of trolls dodging the flailing tentacles. Tavros may be hanging out of his rocketchair.

1:34 - 2:04 (94-124s) - Karkat looks up angrily and stands, rallying the trolls. Shots of Karkat fighting the tentacles. Slicing them in half, tentacles wrapping around his ankles. Tentacle sneaks up from behind him and knocks Karkat out at 2:04 cymbal crash.

2:05 - 2:12 (125-132s) - Terezi steps over Karkat (who is semi-unconscious on the ground). Shots of her grinning maniacally, holding dragon-sword cane.

2:13 - 2:22 (133-142s) - Terezi slowly walks to the edge of the lily pad platform, slicing at encroaching tentacles with the dragon-sword cane.

2:23 - 2:32 (143-152s) - Terezi leaps off the platform and plunges the dragon-sword cane into one of the king's eyes (the EYE-rony!) on the last note.

2:33 - 2:55 (153-175s)- Black King reels backward. Crabclaw cuts trolls' platform lily pad in half. The Trolls are forced to jump to different lily pads. Terezi could be helping a still-disoriented Karkat. Maybe Vriska fluttering with god tier wings. Equius might be strongjumping with Nepeta in tow. Tavros could have the spaced-out Gamzee as a passenger. Kings' remaining eyes might also be firing red-blue beams ala Sollux, forcing the trolls to dodge those too. Everybody reaches new lily pads safely.

2:56 - 3:15 (176-195s) - Tavros pushes Gamzee off his rocketchair and prepares to charge at the Black King with a lance. Shots of aerial acrobatics as Tavros dodges eyebeams and gets close to the Kings' heart. But in keeping with the nature of Tavros' character, he gets hit just before he's within stabbing range and flies out of control.

3:16 - 3:24 (196-204s) - Kanaya jumps onto Tavros' damaged rocket chair and rescues him (motherly), pushing him off the rocketchair and onto a nearby lily pad.

3:25 - 3:34 (205-214s) - Kanaya leaps from the damaged rocket chair and use her chainsaw to cut off the King's crabclaw.

3:35 - 3:54 (215-234s) - Shots of Equius and Nepeta punching/clawing at the Black King's face in accordance with the switches in the music.

3:55 - 4:12 (235-252s) - Switch to a shot of Feferi holding her hand out to Eridan, which Eridan takes reluctantly. Eridan begins charging up for a massive blast with Ahab's Crosshairs. Black King's secondary head receives most of the burst, and is shown heavily charred. Feferi takes the opportunity to jump and stab Black King in the heart with the 2x3dent.

4:13 - 4:35 (253-275s) - Black King, damaged now, raises up the scepter. Larger meteors begin to crash down, obliterating lily pads. Possibly a scene where Karkat and Terezi, standing together, jump up and slice a meteorite in two before it hits their pad.

4:36 - 4:55 (276-295s) - Aradia and Sollux levitate up with psychic powers. Make a big show of posing together, both of them with one armed raised. Pausing meteors are shown to stop in midair and start flying toward the King. King is hit by a shower of meteors.

4:56 - 5:07 (296-307s) - Gamzee stands up. Clearly no longer dazed with a wicked expression on his face. Stands dramatically at the edge of his lily pad, sways like he's sort of unstable, laughing as the music builds up.

5:08 - 5:13 (308-313s) - Quick flashing shots of Gamzee flying at the Black King with the Deuce Clubs . Eyes might be half-way open and bright orange as a kind of cross between stoner-mode and rage mode. Massive explosion seen on Black King, reflected by the "thunder" of the music. Black King is missing an arm and a large chunk of the right side of its body after the explosion. Ends with a shot of Gamzee zoning out again.

5:14 - 5:32 (314-332s) - King begins to flail around. Tentacles and its scepter-arm are attacking everything within reach. Shots of Robot Aradia clones being swatted out of the air. Lily pads of Tavros and Nepeta/Equius might be hit, with the trolls' status uncertain.

5:33 - 5:40 (333-340s) - Vriska dramatically steps up against the desperate King.

5:41 - 5:55 (341-355s) - Vriska shakes the Fluorite Octet and rolls it dramatically. Dice land on the floor, still rolling. One or two of them can be seen with the 8 faceup.

5:56 - 6:08 (356-368s) - Shots of trolls looking on in awe. Karkat with Terezi, Aradia and Sollux, Eridan and Feferi, etc. Mixed in are shots of individual dice, each with the 8 face up.

6:09 - 6:25 (369-385s) - All 8 dice are shown with the 8 face up. They begin to glow, charging up. Shot of the Black King's face, watching with obvious terror. Quick zoom-in on the dice in the final seconds, as the "charge-up" reflects on the music.

6:26 - 6:32 (386-392s) - Massive blue fire effect to again coincide with the music's "thunder". Full view of the Black King being hit by a ball of fire (possibly in the shape of Vriska's Light symbol). Possibly in a manner similar to Sepulchritude, which'd be fairly fitting as the end to a "giant demonic nearly-impossible-to-kill final-boss." Fade to black.

So it's basically the beginning really.

[Morphosky]

Here's something for the troll fighting Dersites.

Kanaya

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Gamzee

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And I'll post something for Feferi later.

[kd7sov]

Side question to anyone who uses Gimp:

Are there any time settings available when making animations? I spent a few hours trying to make an animated version of my Equius/Nepeta storyboard to check how it's doing, but I've seen no controls available for changing the speed setting---other than the 100%, 50%, and so on. It's not giving me any indication of how much time is between each frame, and that makes it harder for me to figure out how many frames to use.

I actually learned this today! According to the tutorial on the Gimp site, backed up by my small-but-now-existing experience, if you append a "(***ms)", with the asterisks replaced by numbers, you can control how long a given frame is there. I think the default, if you don't specify, is 100 ms.

[BlindXeno]

So, I made a few backgrounds.
One is lily-pads and stuff and the other is just the sky or something.
Once again, do as you please with them.

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[catastrophicGenesis]

Side question to anyone who uses Gimp:

Are there any time settings available when making animations? I spent a few hours trying to make an animated version of my Equius/Nepeta storyboard to check how it's doing, but I've seen no controls available for changing the speed setting---other than the 100%, 50%, and so on. It's not giving me any indication of how much time is between each frame, and that makes it harder for me to figure out how many frames to use.

As far as I can tell, if you use the layers panel, you can set the frame length by changing the layer name. Right-click on the layer/frame, Edit Layer Attributes, change the layer name to whichever frame it's meant to be, followed by (100ms) or replace the 100 with however long you want, then (replace) or (combine) depending on what you want the frame to do.

Eventually, for example, it should look like Frame 2 (100ms) (combine). Unless it's the first frame/background layer, in which case it's Background (100ms)

Edit: Haha, missed a page of replies saying the same thing. Doh!

[Thedude3445]

Here's something for the troll fighting Dersites.

Kanaya

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Gamzee

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And I'll post something for Feferi later.

Dude. Yes. I did a fangirl squee the moment I saw the priest. Which is weird because I'm a dude :P

I wish I was better than making a few lame text storyboards and commenting on the awesome art
:P

[Obselescence]

Those backgrounds look pretty sweet, BlindXeno. :O

Status update:

Sort of happy to say that the lag issues are pretty much confirmed to be related in some way to my computer/my browser. The warp sequence is now running pretty well in Google Chrome/Flash preview, so... Hooray.

Pending things like optimization, this pretty much means that

0:00 - 0:14 (1-14s) - Shot of Black King's face (glaring menacingly with multiple eyes). Zooms out to full body.

Is essentially done. Hooray.

Of course, it was kind of difficult to full justice to a lot of the Black King shots that have been submitted thus far, so the first 14 seconds or so roughly consist of modified versions of Hussie's Black King shots. I'm pretty happy with how things turned out all said, with Aradiabots and meteors -- courtesy of catastrophicGenesis -- flying around in the big pan (which has improved a bunch since that example .gif I posted a while back), but just a heads up on that.

Anyhow, next up is the trolls posing all together. That's kind of been a sticking point so far, but I have high hopes for felicitousArtisan's ability to handle it.

And with large swathes, if not the entirety, of the Dersite sequence done, 14 seconds or so of Flash should become 50 seconds or so pretty quickly.

tl;dr: First 14 seconds look pretty done to me. More should come soon.

[curiousTerminal]

I had a (rather lame, compared to that lily pad thing) idea for a loading screen. Something about the SGRUB logo being created, maybe each piece flashing in as the percentage reaches a specific point, and the end of the loading screen (part of the flash, before the music begins) with the black king fading over it, starting what you have so far.
I think it's worth mentioning, but would probably require a bit too much finagling to get right, since you seem to have something done already.

[Weeaboo]

Here's something for the troll fighting Dersites.

Kanaya

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Gamzee

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And I'll post something for Feferi later.

lol gamzee's is so silly.

So, I made a few backgrounds.
One is lily-pads and stuff and the other is just the sky or something.
Once again, do as you please with them.

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dayum those are epic.

[Blaperile]

0:54 - 1:10 (54-70s) - Shots of the trolls fighting the Derse soldiers. Karkat slicing a pawn in half with the Clawsickle. Eridan and Sollux blasting away a line of soldiers with Ahab's Crosshairs/Eyebeams. Tavros knocks over pawns with the rocketchair. Kanaya slices soldiers with the chainsaw... etc. As much as can reasonably be fit into a little less than half a minute.

I just wanted to say that I already made a one-image-storyboard for Eridan and Sollux fighting the soldiers. But yeah, it got ignored and isn't that good. I'll repost it if I can find it.

EDIT: Found it.

Okay, this proves that I'm the most shittiest drawer ever. Anyway, this is how I'd imagine that Eridan and Sollux fight together (somewhere between 0:54 and 1:10, like mentioned in the OP) with then a flash-forward to how Eridan recently ko'd Sollux.
And yeah, I know this looks like Eridan has bunny ears.

So yeah, I basically picture Eridan and Sollux standing next to each other and then shooting eye-lasers/Ahab's Crosshairs towards a line of Dersites standing some distance away from them, resulting in an explosion. And maybe, during that split second explosion or just in a cloud, it could be shown how Eridan ko'd Sollux some time ago.

[Afrowolf]

I had a (rather lame, compared to that lily pad thing) idea for a loading screen. Something about the SGRUB logo being created, maybe each piece flashing in as the percentage reaches a specific point, and the end of the loading screen (part of the flash, before the music begins) with the black king fading over it, starting what you have so far.

My lily pad sketches were just an idea, personally, I would like to have a combination of...

OH FUCK I just had an awesome idea...

[egotisticSwordswoman]

As far as I can tell, if you use the layers panel, you can set the frame length by changing the layer name. Right-click on the layer/frame, Edit Layer Attributes, change the layer name to whichever frame it's meant to be, followed by (100ms) or replace the 100 with however long you want, then (replace) or (combine) depending on what you want the frame to do.

Eventually, for example, it should look like Frame 2 (100ms) (combine). Unless it's the first frame/background layer, in which case it's Background (100ms)

Edit: Haha, missed a page of replies saying the same thing. Doh!

I must have missed this same page of replies, as yours is the first that I've seen to answer my question Thanks! Now that I've got the animation smoothly, I just want to get an audio clip of their section alone so I don't have to keep clicking into Kanaya's section for testing...

I'm sure I'll figure out how to do that eventually

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Helpful reminder in case anyone doesn't know it or missed it a few pages ago:

Dimensions are: 650x450

[enragedFingernail]

Okay so at

5:08 - 5:13 (308-313s) - Quick flashing shots of Gamzee flying at the Black King with the Deuce Clubs . Eyes might be half-way open and bright orange as a kind of cross between stoner-mode and rage mode. Massive explosion seen on Black King, reflected by the "thunder" of the music. Black King is missing an arm and a large chunk of the right side of its body after the explosion. Ends with a shot of Gamzee zoning out again.

will he have the clubs or the War hammer of Zillyhoo?

[Cucurbita]

I think I'll just pop in and say that this was posted on /co/ a couple of days back and they seemed to think that it would be better to not explicitly show Gamzees attack or what it does, and rather just subtly hint at it.

Make of that whatever you want.

[egotisticSwordswoman]

Okay so ---- will he have the clubs or the War hammer of Zillyhoo?

The consensus I've seen so far is
(1) Gamzee's attack will not be directly shown. It may be that the screen flashes to black, or that it flashes to the other trolls' expressions of shock, but what it is that he does will not be shown.
(2) He will be wielding the basic clubs, so that we know all the power of the attack came from him and not any epic weaponry. Besides, we don't know that he's even gotten Zillyhoo yet, so better to not risk a plot hole.

[Paul]

specially if we want andrew to make this canon

what did i say that

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seriously that would be awesome

[Weeaboo]

I think I'll just pop in and say that this was posted on /co/ a couple of days back and they seemed to think that it would be better to not explicitly show Gamzees attack or what it does, and rather just subtly hint at it.

Make of that whatever you want.

isn't that what's happening now? besides, if i have read it correctly, everyone gets their share of screentime.

[mechanicalProfessor]

that pose looks more like something that Terezi would pull, though that's probably just the stick that she's holding. it reminds me of terezi's cane.

that's not a stick. just a guide for me to figure out where i want her hands to go down to. sorry for the confusion.

also, I think maybe we should do something with that pic that you linked us to, like make a second version that has the hair flowing slightly. then maybe we use the same kind of sorta-animation that hussie used during [s] jade: enter (the OH SHIT flash) when karkat ws waking up on prospit. I think that sort of Dreamlike half-fade effect would be great for a shot of her just standing there readying the attack.

if you mean me and the image with kanaya holding the lipstick, i can edit it and try to make something of it.

at the first quote, oh. okay my bad.
second, the picture i was referring to was this one of vriska.

[Weeaboo]

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that pose looks more like something that Terezi would pull, though that's probably just the stick that she's holding. it reminds me of terezi's cane.

that's not a stick. just a guide for me to figure out where i want her hands to go down to. sorry for the confusion.

also, I think maybe we should do something with that pic that you linked us to, like make a second version that has the hair flowing slightly. then maybe we use the same kind of sorta-animation that hussie used during [s] jade: enter (the OH SHIT flash) when karkat ws waking up on prospit. I think that sort of Dreamlike half-fade effect would be great for a shot of her just standing there readying the attack.

if you mean me and the image with kanaya holding the lipstick, i can edit it and try to make something of it.

at the first quote, oh. okay my bad.
second, the picture i was referring to was this one of vriska.

ahah, then don't worry about what i said to the second quote.

[mechanicalProfessor]

seriously though. I am outta ideas. also yes I am going to delete this shitpost, just letting whoever may care know that I have biter's block

[Weeaboo]

out of ideas?

on what?

[enragedFingernail]

Okay so ---- will he have the clubs or the War hammer of Zillyhoo?

The consensus I've seen so far is
(1) Gamzee's attack will not be directly shown. It may be that the screen flashes to black, or that it flashes to the other trolls' expressions of shock, but what it is that he does will not be shown.
(2) He will be wielding the basic clubs, so that we know all the power of the attack came from him and not any epic weaponry. Besides, we don't know that he's even gotten Zillyhoo yet, so better to not risk a plot hole.

Okay. Im planning on making a shot of Gamzee flying through the air about to attack the BK (have it your way?) so I needed to know what to make him wield. Thank you for the help.

[Thedude3445]

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Okay, this proves that I'm the most shittiest drawer ever. Anyway, this is how I'd imagine that Eridan and Sollux fight together (somewhere between 0:54 and 1:10, like mentioned in the OP) with then a flash-forward to how Eridan recently ko'd Sollux.
And yeah, I know this looks like Eridan has bunny ears.

So yeah, I basically picture Eridan and Sollux standing next to each other and then shooting eye-lasers/Ahab's Crosshairs towards a line of Dersites standing some distance away from them, resulting in an explosion. And maybe, during that split second explosion or just in a cloud, it could be shown how Eridan ko'd Sollux some time ago.

Ehh IMO it'd be better if Eridan and Sollux didn't even try to work together. If anything, they could be on opposite sides of the Dersites and then fire their weapons in close ups, making it look like they're dueling each other, though they're actually firing at the group of soldiers. It could be like their duel in [S] Make Her Pay: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scr...p?s=6&p=004478
btw didn't Sollux beat Eridan in their first battle anyway?

specially if we want andrew to make this canon
what did i say that
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seriously that would be awesome

Would andrew actually do that? Does he even read/watch/play any of the fan stuff? If this was made canon though it would be the greatest thing of all time ever.

So I have a lot of ideas for this but I want other people to be able to write some cool scenes too but if nobody wants to I could write storyboards for some of the sections without one. Does anyone?

[ArmsAreLoud]

According to thedude the part between 0:50 and 1:33 hasn't been storyboarded yet, so... Here it is.

(0:50-1:05)-Pan out from the GRIEF symbol showing the trolls fighting various Dersites. Something specific should happen for when the organ comes in; perhaps Terezi running through a rook with her cane?

(1:06-1:15)-Fight picks up in speed as the tempo rises. Camera slowly pans up to the King's face, who is clearly not amused.

(1:16-1:19)-King slams a tentacle into the lily pad that the trolls are standing on, breaking it in half.

(1:20-1:24)-Equius looks over and sees that Nepeta may be hurt. He grows furious and engages HEIR MODE.

(1:25-1:33)-Equius punches the BK some, who prompty slaps him away with a tentacle. Karkat looks over at Equius and becomes visibly angry.

Equius getting thrown to the side that easily by the BK seems kind of eh to me, but I needed a way to make Karkat's transition into LEADER MODE make sense. Feel free to modify it if anyone gets some better ideas.

[Thedude3445]

Only things I see: The pan of the Black King is fine but it seems kind of unecessary considering the first sequence is just shots of the Black King too.

Equius can't attack BK because Karkat is the first to attack him, like at all.