The next stage in my production was to start storyboarding. I’d storyboarded before using panels I’d drawn on Photoshop and wasn’t keen to try that pipeline again, instead I decided to download a trial of Storyboard Pro and give it a whirl. I knew from watching other people use the software that it’d allow me to work pose to pose easier. I’d never used storyboard Pro before but the layout was pretty straight forward and since I wasn’t going to be trying anything too technically advanced I made do with natural intuition and some starter tutorials.

Below is my pass at the storyboard:

This turned out better than I expected and the reaction from the class when I presented was positive. Undoubtly some of the timing will change. There’s a bit of overlap between when the cat emerges from the portal and the rat screaming. I’m not too sure about how the cat squeezes out of the portal, right now there isn’t a great sense of resistance but that’ll be an issue I solve when I start animating. All in all I think this gives me enough foundation to work with, now I just need to export it into Harmony and get to work.