Animating with Blender

Assembling a Story Reel in Blender’s Sequence Editor

With the storyboards and a rough soundtrack created, you will assemble them into an animated story reel. When you paged through your storyboards as a slideshow with the soundtrack playing, you were actually making a temporary story reel on the fly.

The story reel is a self-playing animation that marries your storyboards to your rough soundtrack. If done well, it will give an excellent sense of the look and feel of the action in the finished animation. In fact, as you proceed with your work later in the project, you will be replacing the storyboards in the story reel with previews and a final, rendered animation as you complete them. In this way, the story reel evolves over time until it becomes ...