Storyboards

I did the class exercise which was to draw a floursack character for these storyboard narrations. I don’t think these are particularly interesting looking, I wish I had a bit more time to refine them a little, however this was an informative task. I now have a better idea of what I need to improve, which is primarily staging.

Magical Academia Storyboards

Due to an indecision on the transition between me and Sam I had two openings. However part way through drawing the first pass, we decided the flame to torch transition works better and so I developed them into storyboard thumbnails to completion.

The discarded opening was a spider scuttling out from under the door, transitioning to my characters outside a mysterious door in the forest. They open it with a spell and go in. It was a pretty boring and limited opening that would’ve padded out the main concept of my segment, which is them in the catacombs.The storyboards for my segment follow Sylvie and her friend as they traverse the catacombs under the school, and they make a surprising discovery. It transitions from behind a pillar of stone to Ciara’s spooky forest segment. I wanted to create something that has a mix of limited and dynamic animation, and also demonstrates the principles clearly. I won’t know if it properly translates until I see it in motion, but I am hopeful that it works well!

Final Storyboards

These are the final storyboards. They don’t have backgrounds but I wanted to put a focus on the character movement and how each scene connects. I also added additional notes to help frame the animation during the process and make it easier on myself.