Storyboard

 In class we looked at storyboarding. Storyboarding is something extremely important in my progression route - animation. Whenever someone is creating an animation or a movie, they need to complete a storyboard. In all animation studios there are storyboard artists and storyboard revisionists. For me, being able to create a storyboard is very important. Last term I have researched Stephanie Alexander, who works as a storyboard revisionist. I was looking at her work to help myself create a storyboard for my major project last term. Click here to access that blog post. 

This term I am not creating a storytelling animation, therefore creating a storyboard for this project was a little bit more complicated. I thought about my project and what came to my mind was the fact that I am making it for a cartoon and something that all cartoons have in common is a theme song and some sort of animation during the theme song that stays the same in every episode. I thought this was a good idea to make a storyboard for the theme song, I think in that moment I can present all my characters and what is so special about them. 

Here is an example of a theme song already existing: 

Those theme songs are of different lengths and this particular one is a pretty long one, but it shows an idea of kind of presenting the character. I decided to create a storyboard that would sort of present all of my characters and their environment. 

When I was thinking about how to start it, I decided to show that it is a different planet, so I would start with an extreme long shot, showing the Earth and a very small purple planet and the camera would be zooming towards the planet until it zooms on a boy looking up holding his magnifying glass - my main character. I think that would be a very smooth transition. From then on I just have simple character movements for each of the characters, to present what they are doing and who they are. This theme song ends with a zoom out and showing the castle to show where they live. I personally think that it is a good idea. 

For my storyboard, I have used Procreate app, and I decided to use different brushes than normal to kind of experiment with this. I never use the brushes that look like actual paint brushes, but I wanted to see how it is to work with those to do some sort of experimentation. This is the storyboard I have completed: 

I think this storyboard looks really fun and interesting to look at. I can see a theme song of a cartoon looking like this and I am very happy with what I have created. I think it was a good practice of storyboarding, which is very important in animation.