Storyboards for a film school assigment

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I’m in film school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and as one of the assignments for a directing class, we have to shoot a 3-5 page script out of a published screenplay.

Making storyboards was one of the pre-production tasks we had to do, and since I can’t draw crap, I decided to do mine in Blender. I only spent about an hour making these… I deliberately limited myself on the time because storyboards aren’t supposed to take a lot of time. Most people who can’t draw just use stick figures.

As storyboards, these work great because they not only give an idea of the composition of the shot, but also of the set we have to build, and the lighting. Most storyboards don’t have that much information.

The two characters were lifted from a larger project I’m working, and are fully rigged and whatnot. Those took more than an hour. I used Blender’s built in postpro to knock out the color and decrease the gamma because this will be shot on 16mm film. That’s also why the AO is deliberately grainy.

The textures are minimal, but I like the look of these.
This is total overkill for the assigment; I hope my teacher likes it.

Here’s the powerpoint file, which contains 6 images, totalling 534 kb:
http://www.uwm.edu/~celarkee/storyboards.ppt

Oh… and lets see who can guess which movie I’m using. :Z

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I can’t tell by the physical layout. I’d have guessed “Pulp Fiction” or “The Diner” or “Leathal Weapon” or “Streetcar named Desire” or any other series of movies with a couple of key people sitting in a diner.

But, your subtitles gave it away, with a quick google search I come up with “The Iron Giant”

(Never saw it)

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ah, you cheater. I was hoping to weed out the animation geeks. :wink:

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lol.

You made it too easy :slight_smile:

cheating - or is it –> improvise, adapt, overcome… eg. use any materials at hand to complete the objective.

BTW - I like the idea of blender to do storyboards. Next step would be to have animated storyboards. Hmm, kindof makes me want to go see if there are any scripts for plays down at the library. Would be interesting exercise to set a well know scene with animated characters.