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Published: 2012-02-19 02:28:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 18121; Favourites: 1152; Downloads: 0
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Cute little idea i've had for awhile about a little girl's version of duck, duck, goose. Wanted to practice quickly boarding out ideas, it's basically about a girl who, despite having pretty new animal friends, still loves her raggedy old bunny.I like to think each time she plays this game is just as suspenseful to the stuffed animals as the first, even if she went in an obvious order as to who got the hug of "love"
I've been dying to get this done, been poking around at it for the past few days despite wanting to do them quick in one sitting, and decided to slap some shading on it just now DX These are meant to be more of storyboards than comics since I imagined this as a cute little short film.
anyhow.. hope it makes sense. Lemme know if you've got any ideas/critiques, especially how to do good/professional storyboards.
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^^ you are welcome ^^Β
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ahhhh this is so precious omg ;A;
and wouls also make a great little film
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Yeah! I was hoping to make it a short if I ever have the time ;u;
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hehe well, maybe working on it little by little you'll get there eventually ;w;
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Awwwww so really is super cutie comic and I like old bunny toy!
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Thanks! The bunny was inspired by one I have in real life
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Welcome you!
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This is so cute~XD
I love how you used stuffed animals,and this already a good storyboard :3 ( I can't even make a simple storyboard 
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Thanks! Storyboards are fun (:
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I tried making one, but the teacher confiscated it...Oh well
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Oh my goose! This was you who did this? When I was younger and didnt have a dA account, this one one of my favorite pics! It has such a sentimental meaning to it, and is so darn cute!
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haha, probably thinking of something else, this isn't even a year old yet!
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XD I found this pic a year ago!
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Oh! haha, thats crazy 
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Welp? Ya meant well? XD
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Lol, yes. I say Welp. Same as ya versus yeah XD
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Ohhhh... XD
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This is so cute. I used to have a raggedy old bunny that I loved! But I accidentally lost it in a restaurant somewhere in Kansas. My mom told me to leave it in the car, but I wanted it with me everywhere I went 
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;o; That seems to happen to everyone!!! A childs first lost love is usually a stuffy, its so depressing! Did they try and call to see if it was still there?
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Yeah my mom did! But it was a Chinese restaurant that didn't have very good English speakers so when my mom asked if there was a stuffed rabbit there they said, "No we no serve rabbit" and hung up on her 
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;o; I want to make an animation of it so bad!
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AWWWWWWWw this reminds me of um... the hobbes comics
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That's so cute ! It's really touching *_* I
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Makes sense pretty well, or would if you had a little pan at the beginning, so the audience could see the raggedy bun beforehand. (You want to err on the side of caution in the medium where the audience has no control over what they're seeing.)
Overall, though, I'd say they're rather professional looking save the absence of transcribing your camera angles...you'll want to get into that habit sooner rather than later. (I, on the other hand, spend too much time on the pompous formalist garbage (I indicate frame length, colour strobe, and SFX cue lengths right on the storyboards when they come up, instead of in a sidenote) but leave the sketches as sketches.)
The tone on this looks beauteous when you read it, or if you look at it, but if you're doing 'professional' storyboards, I recommend drawing like Chester Gould - thick, solid lines, obtuse angles, and lots of blacks. That kind of thing reads much better from a distance - as in, if I'm sitting across the room looking at a storyboard, you can see what's going ON. Claritas Uber Alles.
(And I apologise, DREADFULLY, for my walls of text. I just type really fucking fast.)
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You think revealing that they're just toys at the start would work and not take away from the tiny surprise at the end? I wasn't sure about it, but one way or another I definitely need to show they're stuffed toys better.
Oh! Do you have examples of what a proper storyboard might look like? I've been dying to get my hands on more "real" examples. And I definitely agree, I'd like to start imitating a more roughed out storyboard style but I always get carried away with smaller projects like this one.
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I seriously hope you appreciate this, because I spent almost an hour typing this over and over again as my browser keeps crashing and wiping my comments out halfway through typing it.
I think revealing the toys at the beginning shouldn't present a logistical problemβ¦you can show theyβre toys with the way they move, encumbered by stuffing and not bones, and the way their skulls depress when she touches them. But you have to show that the bun is ragged and well-loved, otherwise itβll look like a capricious little girl who denies a dragon her love. XD Show on the second βlike,β a fast cutting scene of a facial shot of the dragon, a facial shot of the bun. That kind of thing. (Just thinking out loud.)
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Thereβs a million ways to draw storyboards, so donβt tie yourself down. But compared to this, give your figures space to be edited. ^^ The whole point of a storyboard is to be edited and changed, so donβt work on immaculate figures.
My personal theory is that no drawing should take longer than a breath to make, or the layoutβll be too complicate to read on the screen. Plus, encourages both zen breathing and a fast drawing hand. (With a normal human hand, three breaths.)
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I find that, of all the storyboards I draw, I rarely post them. Hereβs one I found from βVixenβ¦β just comparing our approaches.
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Oh no!!! haha im sorry!
Oh, thats very true, an excellent idea actually, in making something about their movements very unnatural, so that maybe you wouldn't let it bother you but enough so that it might cross your mind that they move so strangely? Then again I feel like just the designs themselves sort of lend to a more unnatural feel to them, but thats just me. XD
Thanks for the links! The boondocks storyboards are insane! And your boards look great too! I just need to keep it loose I guess!
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I've gotten over it, but still frustrating.
The more stylized, the less you can criticize it. It makes people aware that you as an artist were creating the film deliberately... (Of course, carried to its logical excess, you get UPA's later output. And in general it makes the film harder to emote with.)
The designs, though, should reflect the movements - the way stuffed animals would move in real life, if only they could move. ^^
(Animation is the ideal medium for homunculi...)
Mike Sporn just posted some very good opinions about boarding... I side with Hubley in that they should be complete, but they should be indicators of the emotion rather than a guide for the animation. [link]
Don't do a pose that you can throw into animation of a character looking depressed. Draw the character looking depressed, then animate a character looking depressed...they don't have to be the same.
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True true.
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Just have them move like stuffed animals and you have nothing to worry about.
Mrm. Thought it'd prove useful.
(Just do your own thing, hon.)
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Aaaaaw! Nothing intelligent to say, I'm just squealing at how adorable this is!
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Haha thats okay! Thank you for the squeal
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This hit me right in the feels. 
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