Drawing Out

A few notes for when you come down to drawing a storyboard.

Must take into consideration when producing the animatic:

What it says in the script - Keep in mind if you’re working off a script you didn’t write yourself: you will have to work closely with whoever did. You are not going to be able to imagine it perfectly so mistakes are bound to happen and will have to redraw them later.

How much time it has to go on for - You are expected to keep to a time limit - this is in both the sense of how long the film will last and how long you're got to do it.

Time and build up - Carrying on from the last paragraph; when working with a story and plot, you are expected to create a feeling of anticipation.

Subject - who is in it. You’ve got to show were the eye takes you.

What’s happening and going to happen – again, you need to take the plot into consideration when drawing each frame out. To save time you might want to draw the background separately and edit it back in when it comes to working on the digital side and then draw the protagonist or moving subject if you know he'll have a lot of shots in the same place.

Camera angles - A camera shot can make all the difference to a film. (example?) And in the animatic you need to sort where the camera is going to go early on.

Background/foreground - you don’t have to draw the same background with every panel. You can draw it out and bring it in when it comes digital. Keep working on the characters and save as much time as you can with out affecting the overall shot.

- distance-

Lighting - night or day, light is going to affect a scene. You can get away will the odd shadow here and there but mostly you will have to show …

But remember don’t spend too much time working on the storyboards - ironically, the best thing you can do get them done fast. Set yourself a short deadline. Then take the rest of the time perfecting them or making changes to what doesn’t seem right.
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example of what i'll be useing to show you diffrent methords for storybordsing

using refrences

if somthing in the script reminds you of another cartoon or story you've seen befor, dont beafrade to use it as insprations or refrence to help you.