Storyboard Write Up

After changing my idea from the penguin to the snowman, I decided to create a storyboard of how I want the animation to finish. In most cases the animation finishes up being lightly based on the original storyboard due to issues and problems that arrise throughout the creation process.




1. Snowman wakes up with head on that only has eyes. Sleepy eyes until he wakes up properly.
2. Snowman changes his head by throwing the other one away. new head has all the facial features on and Snowman smiles at the end of it. Gives the impression of the snowman putting make up on.
3. Looks out the window and sees a sunny scene. Looks Happy. Window appears to fall down but it is actually a blind or picture that falls down. Reveals the normal outside, which saddens the Snowman as it is boring.
4. The Snowman hears some music and looks back at the window to see a Penguin skating by. Penguin goes by twice playing his music and camera checks back to the Snowman who is smiling because he thinks he could make a friend.
5. The Snowman gets his skis on and heads outside to meet the Penguin at the top of the cliff. He looks very worried about going skiing and is really not happy about it. The penguin slides off the cliff with no trouble before the Snowman begrudgingly moves off the cliff.
6. The penguin is skiing down the hill with no problems. He has his eyes closed and starts doing a few tricks. Skiing on 1 foot and doing spins.
7. The penguin hits the bottom of the hill and theres a small ramp for the penguin to run up. He slides up the hill and does a little flip and lands it on the ice. He turns to the Snowman as if he is showing off.
8, The Snowman drops off the hill in a cartoony way with him heading off the edge, waiting for a few seconds and ten dropping down.
9. The Snowman flies down the same hill that the Penguin although he is a bit less stable on his skies. He is shaking his head as he goes down and waving his hands around wanting to stop but he has already started going.
10 The Snowman hits the bottom of the hill and slides up the ice ready to jump over the hill. He has lost all control and slides up the hill. As he is in mid-air the 3 balls of the Snowman come apart with the top piece going through a basketball hoop and landing on the other pieces of the Snowman.
11. The Snowman moves towards the Penguin and shows him that he is very happy with what he did even though he had no control. The penguin turns around and slides away on the ice because he is not impressed.
12. The camera pans to the Snowman and he is very sad . The camera fades to black with the Snowman being sad.


As you can see from the storyboard, I want to try to show a range of emotions by the Snowman. This could be quite hard to do all of them but I would like to achieve as many of them as possible. The key ones that I have mentioned are:

Happy
Sad
Sleepy
Impressed With Himself
Upset
Worried
Shocked

There are a lot of different feelings here. Some that will be easier to animate and show in the animation than others. I will try to show as many of these as I can in the final animation.