WoE!? - Storyboard

It was good to get Quench out of the way - a visual style was beginning to come together, so I felt this would be a good time to try and nail down some of the ideas that Sally and Janet had talked about for the rest of the show.

The storyboard below is a pretty rough outline of the whole show, minus the bits that don’t involve animation. I won’t go into the details of the sequence as I’ll talk about the individual sections when I get round to them - it was really just an attempt to get a handle on the contents of each scene, how they relate to the choreography, and also to get a sense of the flow of colour throughout the piece.

I’ll admit, I was struggling to get my head around what was happening with some parts of the choreography and how some of the transitions between scenes would work. The process of developing the storyboard (along with a more detailed script and list of actions for each scene) over the course of a week or so, in between other things, really helped pinpoint the problem areas for me so I could go on to discuss them with Sally at a later date. I usually try to avoid doing storyboards for my personal work (boring boring boring - I’d rather just animate stuff), but it was pretty much essential for this project, and has proved very useful as a reference point for later discussions.

If you have a look at the whole storyboard you might notice a fairly hefty chunk of it devoted to a dream sequence. This is what I went on to develop next, as it was probably the most complicated and detailed piece of animation that needed to be produced for the show - I’ll tell you how I wasted a couple of precious weeks on that one next time :)