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Early Practice in Animation Storyboards 7

Part 2 of 2 of a very long … well it’s not a single shot, but it comes across as a single shot when in animatic stage.  This one is probably my favorite of this “first scene” batch as I have a soft spot for racking focus.

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows woman pulling over turned bucket up and putting something in. Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows woman holding bucket hearing something and turning to see what it is. Behind her a man riding a car comes into view.

Early Practice in Animation Storyboards 5

One very long shot featuring a dog running behind a fence.  The camera follows until the end of the fence and pulls out to reveal both the short lady walking into frame and the house in the distance.  Most complicated.

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows a dog running behind a fence. Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows camera pulling out to reveal house in distance. Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows camera pulling further out to reveal short, round woman walking into frame.

Ghost Squirrel Scene Two – Layouts version 2

Right-o!  Reworked boxing scene in full.  Page 5 has an extra panel.  The original (second version) was fine and all, but it didn’t quite match the pacing of the rest of the scene.

The scene is meant to be a quick paced teaser to establish the rather important plot point that Squirrel is…well…already dead!

Comic book pencil layouts featuring a ringing boxing bell, a cheering animal audience, and a bobcat taking a swing at a squirrel.

Comic book pencil layouts featuring many small panels. An owl watches a boxing match, looks a little worried, and nervously holds a pocket watch. Meanwhile, the bobcat and squirrel fight.

Comic book pencil layout featuring a continued boxing match between a bobcat and a squirrel. A nearby guppy has unkind words to say about the squirrel.

Comic book layouts featuring a boxing match between a squirrel and a bobcat. The squirrel gets up off the mat to take on the bobcat. Meanwhile the owl looks intently at the strange pocket watch.

Comic book layout showing the squirrel punching the bobcat. The bobcat winds up a punch in retaliation and the owl, for some reason, looks happy about this.

Comic book page pencil layout showing the final "tock" of the pocket watch while the audience looks shocked. The owl is extra pleased.

Comic Page Clean Up

Still reworking the boxing scene for pacing issues.  Technically I should be posting page 7 today, but I’m not inclined to post the original version.  Instead: page 1 with clean (and possibly over-leveled) lines!

Clean line comic book page showing hand holding a watch and mirror.

Something Different – Early Practice in Animation Storyboarding

Over the next several days I’m posting 3 scenes from an animated movie I storyboarded a few years ago.  It was a movie of my own creation, one I started to write and board for fun and practice.  I won’t say all my shot and direction choices are entirely successful (it was my first attempt at making a sustained narrative after all) but there is still plenty of worth here.

I am just posting the images.  Normally these would be accompanied by character dialogue, camera, and script notes.

Here goes: 

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows suspended bucket shitting a car's headlight.Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows surprised man looking up from a sheet of paper.