storyboard - global bird

Framing the Story

I had specifically requested to be the story-boarder as this a field of animation/media i can see my self pursing. From the knowledge i gathered last year about shot progressions and film grammar i applied this to the best of my ability. The majority of the information I got was from Sherm Cohen video, i have a more in depth blog on that video

https://muntyac.blogspot.com/2018/03/sherm-cohen-story-boarding-genius.html

I started off with initial sketches and then doing a rough grey scale over them as i thought the white was too bland and the grey added a bit of depth.

I had planned for the video just be a simple slide show but Annabeth said it would be best to have the bird moving around just with simple tweened animation so that the video could explain of the movement I want to portray. As i was just drawing them as single layers i had to back and separate the birds from the backgrounds, so I could use Premier to animate them easily. I enjoyed this whole process and did it rather quickly in about two and half days. I finished animatic i think clearly shows the story we decided on and works well to sample to audiences as well as useful for animators and background artists to use as reference.

I think the drawing could be cleaner and clearer but maybe that's me being a perfectionist but i know i can do this even better. I think i might have been too ambitious with the shots i have chosen, and i wont be mad if the group want to remove some scenes as I'll let them know that the animation will be difficult because of the perspective. One thing i did keep in mind through the whole of the video was to be able to reuse the bird animations to decrease our work load and still add an extra scene in. I do think that the backgrounds are equally important if not more to the whole overall animation. Definitely my best ever Animatic.

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