After a long and tiresome day in the studio putting together our rough ideas on garishly yellow sticky notes, I trudged back home and whipped out my Wacom to begin the long and brain-tangling process of creating a fully rendered masterpiece of a storyboard.
We had to choose a childrens' nursery rhyme to draft out using technical terms for angles, shots, etc. We had to then map out what would move at what time, when the dialogue or sound would overlap with what parts of animation and so forth.
I chose the good old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". As soon it was mentioned, my mind immediately thought of the comical edge to it, and how Humpty could fall off the wall and crack his egg-like head on the floor and make an omelette-like mess on the path next to the "toast soldiers" of which would "dip" themselves into Humpty's mess and be eaten by the horses.
Although this probably isn't child-friendly in some respects, I was aiming more for the humour, exaggerated facial expressions and entertainment side of things. So in that context, it would appeal to my target audience of children. Which child doesn't love a bit of gore in their cartoons!?
So far so good. 3 frames down, roughly 17 to go!
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