Storyboarding Basics

Before you start to create a storyboard, what is the first thing you should know?

• Your story
• the colors
• the finished product
• the fun you will have

After you have figured out your storyline, what should be the next thing to focus on?

• the storyline
• character development
• what you want for lunch
• draw your characters several times

Once you have your story and your character development done, what should you focus on next?

• How you will render the story
• what color your characters will be
• Your storyboard scenes/slides
• what type of transitions you want between scenes

In planning your scenes, what should you do first?

• look at storyline and mark scenes
• draw whatever you feel like
• take a break & get a soda
• color characters

After marking your scenes in your story, what should happen next?

• figure out timing of each scene
• what size frames you want
• get a project plan
• mounting frames

Once you have created a storyline, developed characters, marked your scenes, and timed them; what is the last step in creating a successful animation short?

• create a new storyline
• figure out the colors for the scenes
• nothing, your are done
• create a workflow and project plan

In creating a workflow, what is something to consider?

• what are the different stages of project
• how much time is needed
• what ordered you want the different stages done
• all of the above

A panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.

• storyboard
• animation
• silent film
• sketching

a dynamic visual medium produced from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.

• storyboard
• animation
• silent film
• sketching

a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.

• storyboard
• animation
• silent film
• sketching