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‘The Gift’ was my second storyboard project for the class ‘Writing for Animation – 181B,’ at UCLA. This board topic required the following: adaptation or original material, communicates without written or spoken language, and presented in a story board format.
This is an original story, inspired by Hector Hugh Munro’s, ‘Sredni Vashtar.’ The main character is ‘Flame Boy’ who displays his emotions through the flame above his head.
From Fall Quarter, 2006.
‘Tea for Two’ was my first storyboard project for the class ‘Writing for Animation – 181B,’ at UCLA. This first board topic required the following: adaptation of published material with verbal content (story, poem, song etc.) presented in a story board format. I chose an adaptation of the song, ‘Tea for Two.’
From Fall Quarter, 2006.
The third exercise for UCLA’s 181A class required a storyboard for our first Quarter’s final 15-second animated film project. This exercise called for 8 to 15 storyboard panels that demonstrated our concept for the final film on 12 field animation paper.
This is not a particularly good storyboard, but I am including it as a chronicle of my UCLA class work. In this story, two creatures speak a word that results in their demise. I was trying to see how loose of a narrative structure I could use to create an animated short. I changed my idea for the final film several times throughout the course of the class as I struggled to find a narrative that I was happy with and that could easily be communicated within 15 seconds of animation.
The first Quarter’s final film project is a 15 second animated film, hand drawn on cells and shot on the crane.
This is from Fall Quarter, 2006.