Week 06
Animatic Tests
The link below is to my "run test animatic". This is the first run cycle I have done in 2D and 3D.
I have done storyboards for a lot of projects in my last three years of college and University and I have loathed them for as long. For this project I decided to try something different for my storyboards. My process doing storyboards before this year has always been to use a physical template to draw 4 16 x 9 rectangles on an A3 sketchbook and repeat that for however many storyboards I required. After that i would painstakingly draw my storyboards which I have never enjoyed in the past. After that I would scan the pages in and crop them and place them in Premiere Pro to then be exported as a video file. After knowing though that I would need to be doing storyboards for this module (and another!) I decided to have a think about another approach I can take for them, that's when I decided to try out doing them straight in Photoshop and exporting them from there. That is how I created the animatic test above. I really enjoyed doing them this way because undoing a bad brush stroke is a whole lot easier than having to rub it out (which just makes you work hard to get rid of your mistakes). That is one of the main reasons I found this way superior, in the past I would get annoyed easily at doing storyboards, but, in Photoshop I just undo the action and i'm back where I was with great ease. The 'onion skinning' feature in Photoshop is also extremely helpful and takes out the guess work of trying to match up the compositions of traditional storyboards.
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