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Animation Storyboard

During quarantine, I’ve been using my time to create a final major that promotes an optimistic, hopeful theme of doing what you love and seizing the day. The inspiration came partly from the current Corona virus situation as it’s difficult to feel satisfied with life, so decided to produce an animation allowing me to pursue something I love and look forward to working on. The story follows a character who wants to run away from the toxic people in his life and the mundane nature of his daily life. After meeting a group of people who love him and inspire him, he decides to follow his dreams and join their circus.

At the beginning of this project, I started by writing the story out and deciding what imagery would fit with the flow of the music. This took a lot of re-listening to the song to figure out which parts were more fast paced and which bits were more slow and relaxed. I tried to place the scenes with the most action in during the chorus to emphasis the key moments within the narrative. By planning these key scenes first it allowed me to determine the start, middle and end of the plot using the verses as build ups and transitions in between them. 



Above is a video I made of my complete story board to the song "Come Along" as they would have been presented if was able to complete my original idea within the time frame.











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