animation & animatics
Guido Manzini
The brief
The brief was to develop a character and their backstory based around 1 or 2 of drawing of selected objects from The Fitzwilliam Museum. I was given 1950s USA as a time period and location. I came up with the written synopsis below, on which I based my animatic:
The written synopsis
Biker Guido “Guy” Manzini arrives in the small Texan town of Deceit. He meets a secret agent masquerading as a waitress, named Unimportant, who warns him that Deceit has been infiltrated by a number of assassins plotting to kill the President as his motorcade passes through the town later in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, an assassin called the Mod arrives in town on a scooter, setting up his sniper rifle in the top storey of an abandoned warehouse. Guy and Unimportant cross paths again when they both encounter the Mod, eventually managing to defeat him. The two go to the park to watch the motorcade, where Unimportant makes the realization that every civilian in Deceit is actually a trained assassin.
Guy and Unimportant fight the town’s inhabitants, eventually managing to save the President, whereupon Unimportant kills him herself, leaving Guy to take the blame. Guy is arrested, but is able to escape thanks to Unimportant’s razor nail file she slipped into his pocket; he leaves on his bike, and sets off for the town of Trouble, 100 miles.