You'd want storyboards even with motion captured animations, because the storyboards also set up how they will be shot. I've found it best to work on index cards for story boards, I know people who like working on one big sheet with several boxes in it because it's less stuff to keep around. But doing it on individual…
Coincidentally, I am creating one for an assignment as well at the moment. The amount of detail in your storyboard really depends on the medium you're going to use it for later, the preproduction stage you're in and most importantly, the time you have to create it. For the assignment I'm curently working on we were…
Animatics weren't needed, but I did one just for the extra credit. However mine didn't have any sound, but then again my animation didn't even call for dialog.
I had an entire class devoted solely to preproduction (it was called Media Presentation), and we did a lot of storyboarding and script writing. Some storyboards were due in a week, for some we had whole month (final project). Later on, when we were actually making animated shorts, the storyboards came in mainly as quick…
Hiya guys, just wanted to find out your opinions on the use of story boarding especially if you use motion capture / work with cut scenes. We've been running a motion capture module for a couple of years (staffs university) and I want to get the students to do some decent planning. Any particular advise you guys have on…
In my college storyboarding class, we not only did detailed storyboards, we did "animatics" as the teacher called them, where we would take the panels of our storyboards and edit them together with sound and occasional pans or zooms to get the pacing down as well. Pixar always shows off the animatics they do for their…