Mitchell Hammond

Nuclear Warhead Launch Storyboards

Added 2024-04-14 05:42:36 +0000 UTC

Sorry for the wait, this took longer than I thought. There's around 60 shots in total, for the most part I'm going to use them but I always find myself improvising at the last minute but hopefully you can get an understanding of what I'm going for.

People have been a bit confused by this sequence, believing Big Boss really is launching a nuke on civilization. This scene, including every Metal Gear TX55 scene leading up to this, is nothing more than a visual representation of Metal Gear's "legend" and why it should be stopped. In other words, none of this is actually happening.

In the original MSX game Gray Fox mentions Outer Heaven is housing Metal Gear and informs Snake to find the engineer Dr. Madnar who will tell Snake how to destroy it. Because my animation has no dialogue I intended to simply have an overlay of Metal Gear's blueprints over the screen then we'd move on to the boss fights etc. But, I got a bit ambitious, and wanted to demonstrate what Metal Gear is to an audience who may be none the wiser.

Once this sequence is finished we can finally get back to actually adapting the original game!

See you in a year!!

Jokes (maybe) but the plan now is to end my hiatus on the project and get back to work on it, so I will show my progress per usual. I will also keep up with the character design sheets, next I want to draw Ellen Madnar. There are very few women in the game so I'm excited to give my take on her.

Okay, enough of my ramblings.

Edit: I've attached a PDF in case the images take too long to load.