I absolutely ADORED Hater's performance of "You're The Greatest"! How did you go about boarding and timing his dancing, poses, expressions, etc.?
I hope you’re talking about my part - where Hater is singing to Dominator’s empty suit.
If it is, it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had storyboarding and timing.
With songs you kind of have to animate them more than storyboard them. We work in Storyboard Pro which allows you to basically animate to the soundtrack, which makes timing a lot easier.
Hater singing on the piano was visually inspired by Michelle Pheiffer in the Fabulous Baker Boys. It was also inspired by torch bars I used to go to sometimes when I lived in San Francisco. The singers are always touching themselves all over, and I thought it would be funny to have Hater do that too.
After that we go to the straw hat and cane sequence which was inspired by the Jolly Holiday sequence from Mary Poppins:
It’s an awesome contrast to the sexy stuff right before it. The dumber dance steps came from reference video I shot of my wife and I trying to out do each other with the dorkiest dances we could think of. It was fun!
That is followed with the fantasy sequence, inspired by Meatloaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love.” The video wasn’t much help in terms of inspiration, but his album covers were:
To contrast that, I wanted Dominator and Hater’s dance to be as un-metal as possible, so I looked at Courtney Cox and Bruce Springstein in “Dancing in the Dark.”
Then we return to reality. I wanted Hater to be all alone and vulnerable when he finally tries to ask out Dominator, so I put him in a spotlight, like he was being interrogated. There was nowhere for him to hide. It wasn’t hard to remember how painful it was to ask girls out, and that’s where all his squirmy poses came from. My pals Eddie Trigueros and Justin Nichols really helped me push those poses!
Anyway, Hope that answers your question!
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