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Learning Mistakes and Improving My Storyboard

  • Writer: Ying Tong
    Ying Tong
  • Jan 9, 2017
  • 2 min read

Today, I am looking back and studying my storyboards to see how I can improve and my mistakes. For every animation, storyboards are essential and it helps to plan and determine each shot which will help the animation to look dynamic and will set the base for a great animatic. This is the my current storyboard:

It may be finished but there are many mistakes. Overall, I made the mistake of not writing down details (Camera movements, etc) of each shot for all the storyboards that I have done and that the storyboards were too sketchy. From panels 1 to 8, not only was the shot not dynamic enough, it had too much empty space. The front few panels (Panels 1 to 9) was not establishing the shot well as the audience might be confused as to where this place is. In addition, the direction that the character was walking in panel 9 makes it confusing as it lost the connection from panel 8 in showing where the character is truly walking to. Looking at it again, it is really confusing and the sketches barely helped. It seemed okay when I first completed drawing it but now that I took a step back and really take a look at it again and really scrutinize it, the mistakes seemed easier to spot. Not dynamic, camera angles were bad, continuity problems, hard to understand and wrong perspective. It is important to fix mistakes but if an idea comes, it is good to write or draw it down first as focusing on the techniques may cause the idea the escape and it will be hard to get it back. Once the idea is drawn out, it is good to always look at the idea and then, using the techniques, improve the idea. This is based on my experience and it is one of the mistakes during the process of storyboarding that I make. However, the biggest mistake that I probably made was probably just doing storyboards over and over again without even returning to my previous works to scrutinize and criticize myself. As a result, I was ignorant of my mistakes and just repeated the mistakes over and over again. It is hard to have a storyboard that is one hundred percent free of mistakes but learning is a lifelong process and I still have a long way to go.


 
 
 

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