Using the storyboards for the alternate settng storyline, I created the third animatic. The Narrative here is very much the same, with the hero having anxiety over whether he causes more harm than good, with images coming in showing things going horrifically wrong. The hero's teammate then enters the hideout (which may need explaining) and then reminds him that he is a hero, helping him to regain his confidence and then go out and save the day. As the story is the same I felt that it would make sense to keep most of the shots from the previous animatics. However, the changes to the setting, such as the shadows and the light coming from the TV screen; do a great deal to increase the drama and tension, particularly at the beggining.
Given the improvements that can be found in this animatic, I think that I consider this to be the final animatic. However, the only things that I think could be improved here, is the ending, and the lack of audio. Overall I think I spent a bit too much time on visuals and narrative rather than audio and the video does suffer for it, as it still doesn't resolve whether or not the visions are memories or the character's imagination. As I personally feel that anxiety often involves worrying about what could happen as opposed to what actually happen, something I have done far too often, I feel that it would be better if the visions were figments of the character's imagination. Therefore, a voiceover by the character's inner voice would do a lot to make things clearer. The ending is also still somewhat quick, and I may need to rethink it a tad during production. I also need to consider the 3D techniques that I will use to make the short, as the hideout, and props such as Crimson Claymore's sword will need to be modeled from scratch. The only other thing I'm having a problem with is coming up with a name for the main character. While I initially had Powerman in mind, the name has been used a lot by Marvel, and quite frankly it sounds too generic.
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