animatic: Money Bunny Blues from Ellen Coons on Vimeo.

I have made a little animatic for MONEY BUNNY BLUES. it has a little music, and a little color, and some cute drawings.
The story is for all you people out there who've ever been wishing for a little more, feeling like you deserve a break, and hoping that something good might come your way soon. it might, if you can treat the money bunny real nice :)

These are storyboards for a story I wrote in the spring, "Little See-Saw Meets the Moon."

Little See-Saw runs away from her farm when she makes a huge mess stacking cow patties up to the sky. They fall back to the ground of course, and she doesn't feel like cleaning it up. These drawings are from a scene after she runs away, where she stumbles upon a seance between the forest creatures and Mother Moon. Don't really remember how this one ends... :P

Cleaning out your computer always has its unexpected benefits... this poster is pretty far from what ended up as my final concept for the film, The Hand of One Hundred

Chasing the Money Bunny

Chasing the Money Bunny

Here are some sketches of scenes from my newest film, Money Bunny. It'll be all the cuteness I ever wanted to make, rolled and sugar and topped with rainbow sprinkles. Just you wait! :)

The Hand of One Hundred from Ellen Coons on Vimeo.

the film is finished :)

THE HAND OF ONE HUNDRED <-- click me

ALIEN SPACESHIP
Step 1: design
Special credit to my brother, Marty Coons, for designing the alien spaceship. This is his initial sketch. He's got beautifully wacko designs in his head (here's more of Marty's work), and I'm glad we got to collaborate on this.

Step 2: vacuum forming
Marty made models for the three base shapes out of 20lb foam, and we molded them out of clear plastic. It's funny, as I write this I can smell ghost fumes. The paint is on the inside so they'll be nice and shiny on the outside!

Step 3: assembly
I took my broken boombox apart, and used some of the parts to make the spaceship look more technologically advanced. I wanted the look to contrast with the crafty handmade-ness of the cardboard city and its wax citizens.

rear view

side view

front view

Step 5: ANIMATE!
I just shot the first scene with the spaceship in it. Now I'm looking forward to destroying it :)

Me! and Cardboard City
This is just to give you an idea of scale... or it was supposed to be. It's actually a lot larger than that in relation to my head.

The Cast, Backstage!
A couple of the ponies, waiting for their scene to be animated. It should be within the week. Also a little pile of cars, and a row of wax men. They are frozen in positions of the different frames of a walk cycle. Replacement animation seemed a lot easier than animating something so tiny and mushy by bending it.

Crayon Melter
This was really fun: I painted the wax people with crayon, melted by this thing made specifically for painting with wax! Ali gave it to me :) You're the best Ali!

The Citizens of Cardboard City
Here are all the wax figures I made. I didn't count them, but i'm estimating a population somewhere around one MILLION. They were all made by hand out of microcrystalline wax, which melts pretty quickly when it's zapped by an alien lazer!!

WATCH some of my rejected scenes! Official footage will not be released until I'm finished :P