Storyboarding

To get an idea of professional storyboarding I looked online for some storyboards of well known animations. 

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This Peter Pan storyboard from Disney, is most likey an initial sketch, and is focusing on key frames of movement and camera angles.  

   

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 Looking at a more detailed storyboard sketch, more frames are added to help tell the story better so that, I as the audience and the animator can understand it better. The way the storybook is presented is a good way of working, like the way I used sticky notes to create my rough draft, the artist can easily replace or remove a frame, if it is unclear or unnecessary. There's no written camera directions or arrows to show movement, that I can see in this image, however each frame does suggest the movement of the character.

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To refine storyboards even more, like here with this ParaNorman storyboard, they can be taken further digitally, I think digital storyboards can be more clear to understand as even though it's still in black and white, the solid colours and line quality make the characters stand out from the background. There is also more detail to the storyboard, in the Disney storyboards there was no proper backgrounds. Here you get more of a sense about what is happening in the story by knowing where they are and what;s around the characters.

I then looked for some coloured storyboards. Here in this Aladdin storyboard, colour is used to give more detail about lighting and shading, in the second frame, darker colours are used which would suggest that he is now in a darker environment. Colour helps the communicate what kind of mood it is, what time of the day it is etc... It helps build the characters a bit more in my opinion.