More thoughts about the space sequence

First, you should take a look at the latest concept designs Shaun drew up for the transformed, "evil" ship. It is really funny, and has a ton of massive engines, huge guns, missiles, etc. When the kid goes blasting toward the asteroid field early on in his space trip, we should probably have a couple shots where the ship looks as if it is going to crash into various giant space rocks, and suddenly sprouts some crazy gun, spinning saw, or missile, and blasts a path free at the last possible second.

Also, I thought it might be fun when the kid is on the alien planet to lengthen the alien chase a little. We still want to try to keep this entire space sequence down to about 1.5 minutes, but a chase scene could be a lot of fun. Koty Juliano created that fantastic little test animation of the kid slipping, and it would be great to find a way to use it. He could probably get up after the fall and scramble around, but the motion looks great, and it would be fun to squeeze it in somewhere. I was also thinking that at the end of the chase, just before the ship comes and grabs the kid to bring him back to earth, it might be nice to have a moment where the kid is completely cornered and all looks hopeless. Maybe he has just tripped, and is lying on the ground with a huge toothy, wormy alien looming directly above him. Certain he is about to be eaten, he covers his eyes, while holding the toy raygun in his hand. Suddenly, there is a huge laser blast, and the alien creature is burned to a crisp. The boy looks up shocked, and is at first convinced that his toy gun was accidentally triggered and has saved him from certain death. Then, he glances over his shoulder to see that the laser beam actually came from the rocket ship, which is shooting toward him with grabber arms extended. The ship picks the boy up, stuffs him back into the cockpit, and begins rocketing back to earth. This might be a nice way of tying the toy gun into the action, and would probably be a bit more tasteful than my original idea of the ship blasting down the alien's throat and out its ass.. heh.