Storyboard References: Up and For the Birds

January of this year I was really fortunate to be able to go to the Pixar exhibition that was taking place in Paris (I was so lucky to see it, as it was the last stop in the tour and was only there for a couple of months). The experience of seeing all those original drawings was amazing and to keep the memories I bought the catalog (it's all in French so I can't understand a word of it). In this book it has snippets of storyboards from the film Up and the Pixar short For the Birds. 

I really like the simplicity of this storyboard and the quickly drawn sketches. In particular I love how the expressions of the birds have been captured within the drawings and how they have been exaggerated. 

Similarly to the For the Birds storyboard, the Up storyboard is quite sketchy in style however, I feel that the storyboard for Up is a lot more detailed and a lot more sophisticated in the sense that the storyline is explored in more depth, which is expected due to Up being a feature length film and For the Birds being an animation shot.

I like both these storyboards for different and similar reasons but I think that I am more for the Up storyboard, as I really like the use of colour within the frames and the shots used within the storyboard. Having said that I do feel like the storyboard could use some camera directions and annotations to make it a little clearer.