Storyboard Process

Of course the storyboard acts as a plan for your future animation, however planning the storyboard and getting that right as well is also very important.

1. Establish a timeline - deciding the order of events in your story helps to organise your animation so that you can begin to bring it to life.
2. Identify the key scenes - because the storyboards objective is to give the audience a rough idea of what happens rather than creating a flip book like experience, keeping the storyboard simple and to the point is often helpful.
3. Decide how detailed to get - Although the storyboard is a rough draft, including detail in the drawings can help get your point across, whether that is to emphasise emotions in characters of improve the noticeability of the setting.
4. Analysing each panel - The viewer is not going to get everything you want them to understand, meaning conveying what is going on in each panel is just as important as the pictures. This might include descriptions of the movements, shot timings and what sounds are in the background, for example.
5. Be open to re-working it and criticism - much like the animation itself you perhaps wont get what you want first time and therefor should be open to having to edit certain panels.