New Simon's Cat Film!

Simon's Cat has a new film out! Intersting how I found out about it the day after Remus first experienced snow. He acted a lot like Simon's Cat, attacking the snow and his reaction to being hit with a snow ball I mean :p



Here are some photos of Remus in the snow. If your wondering, he is wearing a harness and is on his lead.

Mini Episode Idea - Bed + Remus + Laptop = Disaster

Remus sneaks under the duvet. You see a little bump moving towards Bob who is in bed with his laptop on his legs. Swift eye movements show that Bob acknowledges that its Remus. The bump moves closer but stays still next to Bobs legs. Suddenly the bump flies forward going under the laptop and making it fly off the bed! Its on the floor with the screen now black and lying in a bad way. Bob looks horrified. Remus now has his head poking out looks at Bob with a big grin and rolls on his back still looking at Bob and rolls about. Bob rolls his eyes and 'Uhhhs'


I could make it more obvious that he wants his tummy rubbed by making Remus point at Bob and then scratch his tummy but this might make it look like he wants food not a tummy rub.

Mini Episode Idea - Fetch

Another one :) Mainly because this just happened. Blood still leaking out of my finger and all!


Sitting wiggling a straw. Remus comes running and tries to attack the straw. Claw catches hand. Bob shakes hand and sucks the cut. He then wiggles the straw and throws it shouting fetch. Remus runs after it and picks it up. Bob is patting his legs saying come back. Remus looks at the camera, points a backturned thumb at Bob and gives a look as if to say 'yeah right, why would i give you the straw back'and attacks it away from Bob so he can't get it back.

POSSIBLE BEGINNING
Remus walking by trees. Sees a man playing Fetch with his dog. Looks confused, shakes his head and carries on.

Mini Episode Idea - Stairs & Bathroom Door

Below is an idea for a mini episode. It happened this morning well not exactly... I've obviously exagerated in places to make it funnier.


Bob walks up the stairs. Suddenly a paw appears over the edge and then a head with ears back. Remus suddenly attacks his head and shoots back hidden. Bob looks shocked and looks around. Slowy carries on. It suddenly happens again but Bob sees and Remus shoots back but Bob goes to grab him. Remujavascript:void(0)s turns on his back and bites and scratches his hand. he pulls back and tells him off.
Bob carries on into the bathroom. Having to pick Remus up to put him out.

(Various ideas of how it could continue are below)

IDEA 1
Remus cries and attacks the door, climbs the frame, jabbing paws under. Once door opens he looks in and then walks off.

IDEA 2
Bob has to fight Remus over closing the door as he either puts his paw or tail in the way making bob have to push him out with his foot or Remus pushing the door or attacking Bobs hand.

IDEA 3
Remus keeps sneaking back in in various ways. Runs in when turn to go back in. Jumps on Bobs back.

Remus the Cat as mini episodes

On Monday one of my lecturers, John Kelly suggested that I do lots of short animations like little episodes. I imagined this similar to the short happenings in the Simon's Cat Book and each being set in a different place. ie. Lounge, Kitchen, Bathroom, Garden.

I like this idea and might actually go along with it. Seen as Remus does something that is funny or could be made funny everyday! It also means I can carry on making as many animations about him as I want and make it like a mini series.

CAT RULES........ Rules for Cats to Live By...

This is a page as a joke towards cats. Basically it is a bunch of rules based on things cats do. Such as doors aren't allowed to be closed and must accompany people to the bathroom.

Its great as it is true and I have had cats all my live and they have done all that's in the list.

http://www.frostymoon.co.uk/15.html

Naughty Remus Story idea

Remus goes to the end of the sofa and pads his feet to jump. He jumps on mirror thinking there is a shelf or ledge but it is just a frame. He ends up going splat into the mirror and falling to the floor. He gets up and acts like nothing happened like a cat does. He could then wash himself or just walk off all proud until Bob(guy characters name at the mo) looks away and then Remus carries on being naughty. Also, When he jumped the cat nip that was on the top of the mirror could fall and land in his toy box!

This little idea has comedy = the thinking the mirror has a shelf and going splat. The cat owners joke = acting like nothing happened when cat embarressed itself. It also has a way of the cat nip sensibly ending up in the toybox because who would put a thin plastic bag of it in a cats toy box!

Image is example from 'Simon's Cat - Let me In' of cat splatting. Although Remus would be doing it to a mirror so you would only really see his back. Would also test my perspectives :s

Remus the Naughty Cat/Bengal Storyboard

Not sure on the title yet. I kind of think Bengal sounds better than Cat but not everyone has heard of Bengals but know what a cat is... Guess I could call it 'Remus the Naughty Bengal cat' but that sounds awful to me. Oh 'Remus the Cat' or 'The Naughty Cat' or even 'The Naughty Cat, Remus'. Doesn't really matter at the moment any way.

This is the first page of my thumbnails for the Naughty Cat story. I'm not overly impressed with quite a few of the angles and will have to get some advice on good angles and views. Never really been taught it so will be very helpful.

I also think that I will be sticking with this idea or slightly changing it to be set in a Fish Shop. I will write a short script with the fish shop as a setting to see how I feel first though.

I also found that I prefer to draw guys than girls probably because most of my friends are guys so I can think how they move and act more than a girl. Yes I know I am a girl and should know from that but who watches them self or really thinks how they sit on a sofa or throw a toy, and could draw that accurately! That's why once I have a final story, plan and storyboard I will ask a friend to be my character in the animation. I plan to film him doing the actions so I know it looks right. Just like they did for the old Disney films ;) Walt supposedly preferred doing it this as well. Can't remember the quote I read but I will find it and post it on here when I do.

Oh and excuse my thumbnails, they aren't meant to be the neatest or tidiest things in the world.

Idea twisted!

I can't decide which idea to go with :( I love my orginial idea of a remake of Simon's Cat but with Remus as the character and I wouldn't mind changing it to be the same idea but set in a Fish Shop, which is going back to 'The Fish Shop Cat' idea.
Then I went and had the Red Riding Hood idea. I'm a bit less keen on that idea but it could have a better story. I guess it depends how I wrote and animated them both.

Short idea based on happenings with Remus

For where this idea came fom you need to look at my Remus blog. I've loved the idea of doing an animation with the feel of 'Simons Cat' and I feel what I have wrote below has that feeling.

Blue text is Remus' actions and red is mine.



Remus the naughty cat


I'm working on laptop and eating a ham sandwich at the same time.

Remus stalks around the sofa, hiding, popping his out in various places. He then runs to his toy box and knocks it over.

I look up and awwww grrrr and roll eyes but go back to work.

The whole time Remus is looking Innocent but as soon as he sees I am looking away he grabs the Cat Nip bag and carries it to under the stool and rips it open.

I look up just as it happens.

Remus is eating it and smacking it (his pupils go big during eating).

I run to him yelling.

Remus runs off.

I get there go awwww as bending down and try to pick up the spilt catnip.

While doing this Remus comes back and starts jumping and rolling in it again and getting in the way.

Once only crumbs are left I go back to work.

Remus carries on messing the crumbs until he notices I'm eating my sandwich. He sneaks up and sits on the arm of the sofa.

I look at him and move the sandwich away.

He sneaks around the back and meows at me and looks at sandwich.

I shake head and move it back to my left side.

He waits till I'm not looking and goes behind me.

I look around think hes gone.

He then sneaks back to my left and he reaches to my sandwich in my left hand and licks my sandwich!

I look and then look away but suddenly shoot my head back and snatch my sandwich back.

Remus still has his tongue out during this but the jumps off the sofa as I wave my hand and look angry. He runs to the other side of the sofa and hides at the back of it.

I've been watching this but as he looks calm, I go back to eating my sandwich and working on laptop.

Remus suddenly pops his head up and does the glare he does when hes going to attack me on the stairs but then stops and meerkats to scope the room. He looks up and sees the string at the top of the curtain. (Zoom in as he notices it). He then goes back to the stairs stalk pose, wiggles his bum and shoots up the curtain as he's reaching...

I jump up and grab him and put him on the floor and finger wag him, he goes for my finger so I growl. I then fix the top of the corner and turn around to find him finishing my sandwich! I awwww and fall to sit down flopped on the sofa. Looking defeated.

He looks at me and pulls out one of his toy mice and puts it on the plate and slides it to me with a big grin.

My mouth drops and just turn eyes to camera and roll my eyes.

Remus Blog

I just created a new blog to record all the naughty or funny things that involve my cat, Remus. He is a Bengal Cat and was born 14th May 2009. This is to give me ideas for a short that I am hoping will be the similar type of stories to the Simon's Cat shorts just with 3D characters, hand-drawn backgrounds and involve my own characters, the cat being Remus. The link to my new blog is below.

http://naughtyremus.blogspot.com/