Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards

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Animation Programs Scenarios and Storyboards

• Alice

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Overview

• 2-step process for creating animations
• Step 1 Design
• Step 2 Implementation

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Step 1 Design

• Decide on the problem to be solved
• Often the problem to be solved is given to you by
  your instructor, boss, etc.
• Other times, you get to make it up!
• We will practice both
• Design a solution
• We will use a storyboard design

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An example problem (scenario)

• The scenario is
• Several snow-people are outdoors, on a
  snow-covered landscape. A snowman is trying to
  meet a snowwoman who is talking with a group of
  her friends (other snowwomen.) He says "Ahem" and
  blinks his eyes, trying to get her attention.
• The problem is
• How can we create this animation?

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Designing a solution

• First decide on the objects that will be in the
  scene.
• Then, create a storyboard.
• A "storyboard" is a representation of what
  actions are going to take place in the animation
• A storyboard can take two forms
• sketches
• textual "to do" lists

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Objects in the Scene

• Objects A snowman and a snowwoman (and possibly
  other snowpeople)
• Opening Scene a snowy scene
• A quick sketch

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A Storyboard
Initial scene
Snowman tries to catch snowwomans attention
Snowwoman looks around
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Storyboard in Text Form

• Animation Artists (for example, at Disney or
  Pixar Studios) sketch their storyboards
• You may not have such expertise, so here is a
  textual form that can be used
• This is like a "to-do" list.

Snowman turns to face snowwoman. Snowman makes
eyes and calls out to snowwoman. Snowwoman turns
around.
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Assignment

• Read Chapter 2 section 1

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Lab

• Lab 2-1