Storyboard Thumbnails
- As I was not producing a script and working purely from a story treatment and my statement of intent, the storyboards are one of the most important stages in the development of my animation. While I do feel it would have been nice for my artbook to fully develop and take the time to polish my pre-vis work, as I was working by myself time was of the essence and my storyboards could have been better. Though not that important as I was working by myself and could understand what they were depicting, I do wish I had spent more time on them as what I have here is not exactly presentable in a professional context. Initially I had intended to work on colour scripts similar to those depicted in Pixar’s ‘The Art of Pixar’ art book, however the aesthetic I had settled on as well as the time I had to finish pre-production didn’t properly lend itself to this approach.
- What was important to me was that the storyboards communicated shot-composition, staging of characters in the scene and the number of sets I would need to construct for the final animation, with details such as character animation and body language being more fleshed out at the animatic stage. I consciously tried to keep the number of sets to a minimum as I wanted the layout to be of a high quality, so I opted to keep the majority of the action in the scene on a two-dimensional plain, with events revolving mostly around the table in which the romantic dinner is taking place.
- After finishing my storyboards I scanned the sketchbook pages in and constructed a very barebones animatic in which I could figure out timings and variety of shots in the scene, cutting the thumbnails to some temp music in order to get a feel for the pacing and flow of scenes.
