In today’s lesson, we looked at storyboards and animatics and we also made a storyboard for our briefs.

I have decided to make a storyboard for my animation, the first frame is the villain approaching Zeph through the flames, the second frame is the villain saying “It’s over Zeph! the village is ours!”, the third frame is a close up of Zeph getting mad, the fourth frame is Zeph saying “The stone isn’t yours! it doesn’t belong to you!”, the fifth frame is the villain smirking, in the final frame, both charge at each other and clash their swords to begin a major battle.

storyboards are typically how filmmakers want their scene to look before they animate it. There are often arrows to show what direction they want things to go, either its camera movement or character movement.

Animatics are animated storyboards that filmmakers use to give a better understanding of what they want their scene to look like.

Storyboards are extremely important for project planning because they can save time, money and resources. Filmmakers can use storyboards to picturise their ideas so they can easily choose wherever to go for a scene or a different scene before they spend their budget on making it.

I have found it useful to make a storyboard for my animation as I can plan the different stages of the animation easily, I could treat each picture as a frame.

Here is each frame of my storyboard and an animatic: