Storyboarding

"A storyboard to help visualise your character story, to be used to inform the development of your final character animation. This will be worth 10% of your overall grade."

INTRO TO STORYBOARDING

Example from Template.net

- Storyboarding used to visual convey the narrative of a plot using minimal text and using solid drawing

- Each given one word and told to storyboard it in 8 panels using simple shapes

- "Passionate"

- Used simple shapes and conveyed emotion through squash and stretch and movement lines

- Drawing on own experiences of never shutting up :)

INSPIRATION

- Storyboard from Castlevania art book

- Season 2 Episode 7 "For Love"

- Scene of Dracula's death

- Style of this inspired my storyboard due to clarity and ease of communication

- Each character coloured in a separate colour unrelated to their actual character design - works well to differentiate when both are in a shot together

- Sketchy style, not too focused on details but enough so as to make characters clear

- Cel shaded lighting for specific and dramatic lighting scenarios

STORYBOARD PRO

- Chose, after a TI, to use Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro

- Found it to be very user-friendly

- Could easily export into Harmony afterwards to make process easier

FINAL STORYBOARD

EVALUATION

- Very pleased with how storyboard turned out

- Style is clear

- Translucent background clearly differentiates foreground and background

- Enjoyed the way the sketchy black fill looked

- Couldn't incorporate this element into final animation due to time

- Would have been wasted time on something minor

- Separated camera directions and audio notes into blue and green writing

- Made it very easy to understand 

- Whoops got the feet wrong way round

- Pay closer attention to anatomy

- Very specific image in head

- Explained well using notes

- Turned out exactly as pictured