Applied Animation: Storyboarding

Now that we had our chosen stories we were able to begin storyboarding and figuring out how we wanted to visually narrate the script. All three of us sat down with sticky notes and sketched out ideas for each scene as we read through our script. For the majority we had very similar ideas in terms of what we wanted to see and from what angle, and even when we didn't necessarily see eye-to-eye we were able to discuss our ideas professionally to work out what option would be best fitting of our narrative. Due to how well we co-operated we were able to get an initial sticky-note storyboard completed relatively quickly.

We discussed our progress with tutors, Martin and Sara. They were happy with our progress and the visuals we provided, but couldn't understand fully what we wanted to happen in our animation. All three of us knew that we wanted the lines to be quite fluid, and have them gradually form different characters or aspects of the animation, but this wasn't presented clearly in our sticky notes. It was suggested that we sit down and re-think some of our shots by thumb-nailing our entire animation. Which we did. We were able to present our ideas more clearly and we even re-worked a few camera angles/movements that originally didn't work as well.

Thumbnails - Drawn by Oscar

Myself and Wing were placed in charge of completing the panels for the final storyboard. I took one story from the animation, while Wing took the remaining two as I was going to get working on environmental/prop design afterwards. Oscar was to create an animatic from our panels when we were done. I was certainly happy with how we had assigned tasks, especially as I'm not particularly fond of making animatics. I also think that the work load is being equally allocated and we're sticking to our schedule very well.

Final Storyboard