The Classical Elements: Storyboarding Part 1

With this being my 4th storyboard, I knew that I needed to concentrate on using various camera angles and shots, which I tried to do but I still feel there's room for improvement. I feel that my initial storyboard portrays my idea quite well however, it could possibly use a few more drawings in the middle to really portray the idea of the movement of the water, but I will need to research water movement before I can draw this accurately.

Looking from a production pint of view, I feel that there is sufficient content to fill the 20 second time frame not including titles and credits. I also feel that there is plenty of demonstration of the 12 principles of animation within the animation. In order to estimate how long my animation was going to be and how long certain events will take within my animation I had to create an animatic from my initial storyboard. Having never made one of these before I didn't really know how to go about it so I simply loaded my thumbnails into Photoshop and created a timeline of my storyboard. From here I adjusted the amount of time I suspected each event to last in my animation in order to get an idea of how long I had for each event and to see how long my animation was expected to be. I'm pretty sure this isn't exactly how an animatic is made and when I research how to do them properly I'll conduct another one. But for now I feel that my animation is okay and the length of the story seems to be appropriate. 

Now that I have got this basic animatic done I refined my storyboard and created a more refined animatic.