A report on Storyboard

A storyboard for The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd episode #408
A storyboard for an animated cartoon, showing the number of drawings (~70) needed for an 8-minute film.
A storyboard template.

Graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

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A storyboard for The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd episode #408

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Painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of an already inked cel, here placed on the original animation drawing

Traditional animation

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Animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.

Animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.

Painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of an already inked cel, here placed on the original animation drawing
Sketch of an animation peg bar, and measurements of three types, Acme being the most common.
A camera used for shooting traditional animation. See also Aerial image.
This image shows how two transparent cels, each with a different character drawn on them, and an opaque background are photographed together to form the composite image.
A horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos. The animation consists of 8 drawings which are "looped", i.e. repeated over and over. This example is also "shot on twos", i.e. shown at 12 drawings per second.

Animation production usually begins after a story is converted into an animation film script, from which a storyboard is derived.

Scottish Canadian animator Norman McLaren drawing on film, 1944

Animator

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Artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence.

Artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence.

Scottish Canadian animator Norman McLaren drawing on film, 1944
Stop-motion animated character from 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957).

Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), and background artists (who paint the "scenery").

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.

Animation

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Method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

Method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.
A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene
Fantasmagorie (1908) by Émile Cohl
Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol.
An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.
A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial
A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain
World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.

Thus, animation studios starting with Disney began the practice in the 1930s of maintaining story departments where storyboard artists develop every single scene through storyboards, then handing the film over to the animators only after the production team is satisfied that all the scenes make sense as a whole.

Walt Disney Animation Studios

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American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

The building on Kingswell Avenue in Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1923 to 1926
Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.
The original Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the headquarters of the animation department from 1940 to 1985.
Roy E. Disney (Chairman, 1985–2003), nephew of Walt Disney, was a key figure in restructuring the animation department following the reorganization of the Disney company in 1984.
1400 Flower Street in Glendale, California, one of several buildings used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
1400 Air Way, another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
622/610 Circle 7 Drive (the Hart-Dannon Building), another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 1990s.
Walt Disney Feature Animation logo, used from 1997 to 2007.
John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, 2006–2018, left) and Edwin Catmull (President, 2006–2018, right) came to Disney following its acquisition of Pixar and dedicated themselves to revitalizing Walt Disney Animation Studios after the studio's unsuccessful early 2000s period.
The south side of the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, as seen from the public park that separates it from the Ventura Freeway.

The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking.

Previsualization

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Visualizing of complex scenes in a movie before filming.

Visualizing of complex scenes in a movie before filming.

Previsualization is used to describe techniques such as storyboarding, either in the form of charcoal sketches or in digital technology, in the planning and conceptualization of movie scenes.

Georges Méliès, c. undefined 1890

Georges Méliès

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French illusionist, actor, and the first film director.

French illusionist, actor, and the first film director.

Georges Méliès, c. undefined 1890
Plaque commemorating the site of Méliès' birth – "In this block of flats was born on 8 December 1861 Georges Méliès, creator of the cinematic spectacle, prestidigitator, inventor of numerous illusions"
Scene from The Vanishing Lady
Scene from A Terrible Night
Scene from the 1897 film The Haunted Castle
Scene from The Astronomer's Dream
Scene from Cinderella
Scene from The One-Man Band
The scene in which the spaceship hits the Moon's eye would go on to become one of the most iconic images in cinematic history.
The Sun swallows the flying train in The Impossible Voyage
Méliès at his studio in Montreuil
Scene from Conquest of the Pole
Georges Méliès in 1938

He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards.

Storyboard artist

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A storyboard artist (sometimes called a story artist or visualizer) creates storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions.

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Junior Woodchucks

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Fictional scouting organization appearing in Disney comics and the DuckTales animated television franchise, most notably in adventures featuring Disney characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie as members.

Fictional scouting organization appearing in Disney comics and the DuckTales animated television franchise, most notably in adventures featuring Disney characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie as members.

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A 1976 French collection of Junior Woodchucks stories, published under the title of the Guidebook.
History of the Junior Woodchucks from "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N." by Don Rosa (1997). (Edited image)
The I.T.S.A.A.D.C.O.T.F.O.I.K., from Carl Barks' "The Chickadee Challenge" (1955).
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More recently Daan Jippes has been commissioned by Egmont to redraw these stories emulating Barks' style and drawing inspiration from the sketches of Barks' storyboard-like scripts.

Stanley at NewCon in 1976

John Stanley (cartoonist)

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American cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing Little Lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959.

American cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing Little Lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959.

Stanley at NewCon in 1976

His scripting was done much like a storyboard in animation, with rough drawings to guide the artists and the dialogue in balloons.

Quality storyboard

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Method for illustrating the quality control process .

Method for illustrating the quality control process .

Some enterprises have developed a storyboard format for telling the QC story, for example, at Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard in Japan, the story is told using a flip chart which is 6 feet by 6 feet (2 x 2 meters).