Animating with Blender

Telling the Story

One of the things that animation directors do after storyboarding is to use their storyboards to actually show and tell the story to an audience. Even though your production is short, this is still a good idea. Find yourself an audience, most likely friends and family, and walk them through your storyboards.

If you have a physical wall full of storyboards, grab a yardstick, tell the story and begin to direct your audience’s attention to the relevant boards. If you are doing it digitally, you can show each image full screen with the slideshow feature of any number of applications such as IrfanView, iPhoto, or Google’s Picasa™. In either case, the point is to show someone who doesn’t already know the story the storyboards, while ...