Storyboard Progress 4 - Research

Storyboards are an important guide to not just animations, but to any other form of moving media (Music videos, live-action films, commercials, video game cutscenes, etc.), it only makes sense to always draw up one (No matter how rough, so long as you yourself can understand it) before commencing with creating the final product. While they are mostly used as rough guides, at times I see them as another form of sequential art, especially since I have come across so many highly detailed examples (Such as Seung Eun Kim's works, and no I will never stop talking about him). Storyboards are also drawn in many different ways, some might go into more detail while some… are a little harder to comprehend by those that aren't involved in the project.

Drawn by Bruce Timm and colored by Eric Radomski (1992-1995), the storyboard done for the title sequence of the ever loved Batman the Animated Series made use of various lighting (By showing how the backgrounds can still contrast properly to characters that are practically just silhouettes, the stark alley lights to create a proper focus point, and the dramatic flash of lightning at the very end) and camera movements, I find it to be a really good guide for the animators and shows exactly what Bruce Timm's vision was.

Turbo (2013)

This one focuses more on one small scene where two characters are conversing with one another, while it only takes place in the same setting the entire time and barely shows them moving, it does show the wide range of expressions that the two snails are suppose to display as they talk. It also works as a rough guide for animating the lip synching later on.

The Legend of Korra

While most frames are incredibly simplified and lack a huge amount of details, it makes sense as this is apparently for an epic, fast paced action scene. Only outlines are needed to show what it is that is suppose to occur in this scene, face details are only ever drawn when the character close enough to the camera. But I will be honest though, it was hard understanding this without screenshots of the finished animation being placed beside them for comparison. I believe however that this is a typical example of storyboards done for shows that already have episodes released and is still ongoing, so obviously deadlines are a whole lot tighter.

Far more detailed and polished storyboards are only done for when a show is being pitched or is still in the early stages of 

Disney's Frozen

One of the roughest examples I have seen that appears to be drawn directly from the script (Especially since they seem to be drawn on various scraps of paper), it still gets the scene across and clearly shows the important bits like the camera shots, and roughly the expressions the characters are suppose to convey, and I guess that's all that matters (Though I am sure they polished it later on).

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