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By

Anthony, George,

Ilmi and Jake

The Tail of Two Brothers

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Main Influence

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Summary

Main ThemesPoverty, greed, conflict.

IdeologiesOur animation deals with the struggle to break free from economic poverty through ethicaldiversity between the two brothers.

Outline SummaryLiang is a humble, poor man who discovers a formula to create gold. He and his brother,Tao, are both alchemists. Tao is a greedy, arrogant man who wants to develop the formulato increase income. During the creation, Tao becomes excessive and impatient as he strivesto take over production from his older brother. After distracting Liang and placing the wrongingredients in his mix, an explosion occurs, creating a mixture that is gunpowder.

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Character Profiles

Liang Tao

Humble

Poor

Small build

Chinese

Has a brother Tao

Greedy

Arrogant

Large build

Chinese

Has a brother Liang

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Early Character Designs

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New Art Style Inspired

Limbo Mark of the Ninja

Catch Me If You Can

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Development

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Development

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Storyboard

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Pre-Viz

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ScriptScene 1

[Ext. Three buildings shown Oriental hut Left and right run down Shack Right, Alchemist

hut center forward. Intro Lamp, Moon in the sky]

Liang and Tao leave their homes and head towards the Alchemist hut.

[Int. Room within the Alchemist hut]

Cut to inside the hut with both characters opening a kit

Once Liang presents to Tao a formula which he has discovered, which shows how to create

Fireworks. Liang humbly offers to share the formula with his brother, Tao gets very excited

as he realizes that the formula is worth millions, his greed overcomes him and he has an

idea to enhance the formula in order to create a larger produce. The complication begins

when Tao starts to add to the mix that Liang is preparing.

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ScriptScene 2

[Int. Camera facing Liang at a desk surrounded by equipment and his mixture.]

Liang is stood, carefully stirring the mixture; Tao is stood over his shoulder with a menacing

grin on his face, and impatiently fidgeting and is desperate to help. Liang grabs a vile and

very slowly swills the solution. Tao, sick of waiting rushes up, snatches the vile, shakes it

furiously and dumps it in the mixture.

Liang then reaches for a pestle and mortar, and delicately grinds away at an ingredient,while Tao beings to pace up and down in the background furiously. Sick of waiting Tao

knocks Liang out of the way, grabs the pestle and smashes it into the mortar, then throws

the whole thing into the mixture.

After this, Liang signals that the only thing left now is to wait and patiently stands watching

the bubbles pop from the mixture. Tao stands waiting also, but beings to fidgets, tapping hisfoot and looking at his watch (wrist) and finally snaps, walks up to the flames and pulls out a

fire bellow, and increases the size of the flames to speed up the mixing process. The flames

reach a great height and the mixture begins to bubble violently, followed by smoke. And

then there is a violent explosion.

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Script[Int. interior of the hut]

The explosion blows the roof off of the Alchemist hut, there is a pause and the camera

switches back to Tao and Liang stood in the hut, facial hair singed and pointed upwards

with smoke coming off. Both Liang and Tao grinning widely the camera focuses in on both

their faces, suddenly with the realization of money in their eyes.

Scene 3Shot of the two Brothers stood at a stall selling gunpowder, reaping the rewards from

there invention. The camera follows a firework that is shot from behind the stall and the

final flash leads out.