Graphics Reference
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Chapter 4
Storyboarding and
the Story Reel
Objectives
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Storyboarding basics
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Suggested tools
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Creating the storyboards
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Telling the story
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Recording a temporary soundtrack for timing
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Assembling a story reel in Blender's Sequence Editor
Inbox
Coming into this chapter, you need:
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A fi nished story
Storyboarding Basics
Before you take your story into 3D, you need to visualize it in a less time-consuming medium. Storyboards
provide an effi cient way to move the ideas and words of your story into a visual format. At their most basic,
storyboards are a series of drawings, either real (on sheets of paper) or virtual (drawn directly into a digital
painting program), that show the sequential action of your story. They can become incredibly detailed for
shots that feature complicated action, showing every character pose. Depending on your speed and ability at
sketching, you may opt for a more simplifi ed work fl ow, making sure that all of the major actions are shown.
Each storyboard represents an actual shot from the animation, framed as it would appear in its fi nal form on
the screen.
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