Lab #3 - Progress Shots (Kitten)

Characters and Props

Character Design - One of the Three Little Kittens - Another

Music - Three Little Kittens

You Tube Kitten Song

Character Design - One of the Three Little Kittens

Story Board - Three Little Kittens

Three Little Kittens - My Story

Obviously this Nurery Rhyme is too long to cram into a 30 second animation, so I decided to whittle it down. The animation will take place in a kitchen on the kitchen table. We will start with an establishing shot and we will see two kittens on the table, crying. We aren't sure why the characters are crying until the third character enters. The camera will shift to the edge of the table and we will see a kitten climbing up to the table top. Somehow he is going to be carrying a can of whip cream. Once the two kittens notice who the third kitten is and what he has they will stop crying and start dancing since they have found their whip cream. The whip cream is for the pie that until now we have not seen, and the animation will end with the kittens putting the whip cream on the pie and they begin to eat it. A piece of the pie will hit the screen ending the animation.

Characters and Style:

I am going to have three characters, the three little kittens. They will all be similar, but not exactly the same. They will be the same colors, but have some different patterns on their fur. For character design, I like the bubbly and simple shapes of Yoshi and Yoshi's island.

The characters will be cute and pathetic since they are sad in the beginning. I want to keep all the components in the scene very simple so I can focus on the animation and the interactions of the characters

Three Little Kittens

The Story:
Three little kittens,
They lost their mittens,
And they began to cry,
Oh mother dear,
We sadly fear,
That we have lost our mittens.
What! Lost your mittens,
You naughty kittens!
Then you shall have no pie.
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
No, you shall have no pie.
The three little kittens,
They found their mittens,
And they began to cry,
Oh, mother dear,
See here, see here,
We have found our mittens.
What! Found your mittens,
You silly kittens!
Then you shall have some pie.
Purr-r, purr-r, purr-r,
Oh, let us have some pie.
The three little kittens,
Put on their mittens,
And soon ate up the pie;
Oh, mother dear,
We greatly fear,
That we have soiled our mittens.
What! Soiled your mittens,
You naughty kittens!
Then began to sigh,
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
Then they began to sigh.
The three little kittens,
They washed their mittens,
And hung them to dry;
Oh mother dear,
Look here, look here,
We have washed our mittens,
What! Washed your mittens,
You're good little kittens.
But I smell a mouse close by!
Hush! Hush! Hush!
I smell a mouse near by.