Onali

(updated April 10th) Short story pitch boards created in Animation Mentor class taught by mentor Mike Kunkel.

Concept:
Once up a time...Onali, a royal of power, lived in a house in the sky.

Every day . . . she awoke alone attended by her crystalline servators, took her morning tea, and attempted to connect to something—in meditation, in a crystalline chat with a member of the royal family, and best of all, using her telecrystal to view the muck dwellers below...

One day...(storyboards pick up here)

Transcript

14. Dialog Lady Onali: YAWN! AI (drone): Fresh Fruit Lady Onali?
15. Dialog Lady Onali: Mumbles (undecipherable)
23. Dialog Onali: I'll take my tea now.
24. Dialog AI: At once, Lady Onali
25. Dialog AI: At once, Lady Onali
26. Dialog AI: At once, Lady Onali
33. Dialog AI: Your tea, Lady Onali.
36. Dialog AI: Will you hear the reports now?
38. Dialog Onali: No.
39. Dialog Onali: Open a comm, see whose available.
40. Dialog AI: Yes, lady Onali, transmitting...
41. Dialog AI: ...awaiting connection...
42. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
43. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
44. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
45. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
46. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
47. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
48. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
49. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection...
50. Dialog Ai: ...awaiting connection... Onali murmurs: Come on, come on!
51. Dialog AI: ...connection established with Lady Irnieff, please stand by...
52. Dialog Onali: Connect the comm!
53. Dialog Irnieff: Onali! Are you working your practice? This is your third comm this month!
54. Dialog Onali: Oh, I miss you, are you visiting soon?
55. Dialog Irnieff: You know this is a bad time for me.
56. Dialog Onali: But, what if I come help you—
57. Dialog Irnieff: Listen, I got to go,..
58. Dialog Irnieff: Oh and Onali, stop...
59. Dialog Irnieff: .. using your viewing stone to gawk at those mud people!
60. Dialog Irnieff: Its too precious for such triviality!
61. Dialog AI: (BLIP)...transmission terminated
63. Dialog AI: Shall i clear your tea and start the reports?
65. Dialog Onali: Yes, begin the reports...and bring my viewing stone
66. Dialog AI: (droning walla) The 4th terrace has a farmed yield 32% higher than the previous cycle, yielding an aggragate...
67. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
68. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
69. Dialog AI: (report droning on) --Your viewing stone Lady Onali.
70. Dialog AI: (droning walla report getting softer) of 5% after the 48% lose on terrace 2 and 3 from the previous two cycles...
71. Dialog AI: (report droning on) The scouting team and defense report remains at hexadex green level 5 with only the anomalous siting at parallel 12 mark 50...
72. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
73. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
74. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
75. Dialog AI: (report droning on) The scouting team and defense report remains at hexadex green level 5 with only the anomalous siting at parallel 12 mark 50...
76. Dialog AI: (Distant walla of more reporting....)
77. Dialog AI: Is the Lady Onali finished with her dinner?
78. Dialog Onali: Yes, prepare my bed.
80. Dialog Lady Onali: YAWN! AI (drone): Fresh Fruit Lady Onali?
83. Dialog AI: (droning walla) The 4th terrace has a farmed yield 32% higher than the previous cycle, yielding an aggragate...
84. Dialog AI: (droning walla report getting softer) of 5% after the 48% lose on terrace 2 and 3 from the previous two cycles...
85. Dialog AI: (report droning on) The scouting team and defense report remains at hexadex green level 5 with only the anomalous siting at parallel 12 mark 50...
86. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
87. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
88. Dialog AI: (report droning on)
89. Dialog Onali: GASP!
90. Dialog Onali: Oops!
102. Dialog Onali: Oh...
103. Dialog Onali: ...no!
118. Dialog Onali: Hey there...have any of you
119. Dialog Onali: Seen my looking stone?
120. Dialog Onali: It could be right about here or...
121. Dialog Onali: Maybe right under you there..
122. Dialog Kids:whooooaaa!
123. Dialog Onali: Do you see it there?
124. Dialog Onali: It would have landed,,,
125. Dialog Onali: about right there...hold still...
126. Dialog Onali: It looks like these but larger.
127. Dialog Boys: HEEEELP!!
128. Dialog Onali: Oh! Sorry.
135. Dialog Onali: The mud! I can't fly.
136. Dialog Onali: No, no, no...
137. Dialog Onali: No,no-ngo-no-no-no!
138. Dialog Onali: No, no, back off.
152. Dialog Onali: (Breathing)
155. Dialog Onali: Wheeeew (...breathing...)
156. Dialog Onali: Pant...pant...!
157. Dialog Onali: breathing!
158. Dialog Onali: Gasp!
159. Dialog Onali: AH!
169. Dialog (Onali POV shot) Heavy breathing
170. Dialog (Onali POV shot) Heavy breathing
171. Dialog (Onali POV shot) Heavy breathing
172. Dialog (Onali POV shot) Heavy breathing
181. Dialog mud people muffled inquiries
182. Dialog mud people muffled inquiries
183. Dialog muffled conversation
184. Dialog muffled conversation
187. Dialog Onali: Gasp
188. Dialog Onali: You don't understand...the mud...it messes up everything.
189. Dialog Onali: Nothing personal. i just have to get home.
190. Dialog Onali: ..see i cant fly ...now...
191. Dialog Onali: ..thank you...sorry...
192. Dialog Onali: oh!