3D Animation - Story Boarding

For the second 3D animation, we were recommended to try out story boarding, a useful method to plan ahead of animating and laying out how and where camera shots are to be executed. A lot of famous people in both the animation and film industry use story boards during pre-production to plan out how filming will be executed in order to save time and be well managed. Below is a story board about a small story regarding a door, which out VET coordinators told us to draw up a story board relating to a door.

Methods of drawing up a story board includes being extremely clear as to what is going on in each shot, with the text below each box adding more detail into each shot (camera movements, sound, timing etc.).

After that we went ahead as planned and drew up a story board for the 3D animation, which had our modeled characters in it. For my animation, I wanted to have my character be needing a toilet and as he enters a door to a public restroom, he finds out that he entered a women's restroom. Story boarding this helped me lay out what could happen as well as camera shots that could be used.