Self initiated animation story board

For my self incited animation I decided to find facts on the internet and add visuals to them. The style of animation would be the same seen in my videos for duck test and the skeleton walk cycle, where I get images from the internet and animate them using the Duik plug-in in for after effects.

one thing tutors said about the project was that I should retitle it so that it could be a TV series, with this episode being on animals. 

The first fact is about crows playing pranks on each other. I decided to do the idea of using the fake can of pea nuts that is filled with spring loaded worms prank, we have one crow fall for the prank, then pull back the camera to reveal that there are other crows think the spring loaded worms are real and they want to eat them

 

This fact was about how the extinct colossus penguins where as tall as basketball player Lebron James, so thats where the idea of basketball came from. In the idea a basket ball player tries jump for the ball that is in the penguins hand, the penguin throws the ball at the guys head, and it lands in the net.

In this one we see some lamp post being knocked over by a mysterious force, the camera then moves out to show that acid in a dogs urine has been corroding the lamp post metal.

This is one about whales singing the same song, as the song is spread among the whales. This is shown with the whales playing instruments. The fact then says that the music changes as the song is passed on, this is shown by showing a different set whales singing a remixed version of the song but in a different musical genre. I was also going to work in the fact that sea lions are the only animals who can keep a beat, so I made the drummer a sea lion, still not sure if I will include this in the final product.

the camera then pans up to an angry person in a boat who is trying to sleep but can't because the next fact is about how whales make the loudest noise out of any animal. He is hitting the floor with a broom stick in try and get them to shut up. Similar to how in TV shows, when the person living above them is being loud, they start to hit the ceiling with a long stick.

The final fact is about squirrels being able to remember 10,000 places they burried nuts we show this by having a surreal think of a map with all the locations marked with an acorn icon. the fact then says that they forget some locations, causing the nut to grow into a tree. We show this by having the squirrel burry a nut, leave, then come back to try and remember where he put it, as he searches we see  that the buried nut is growing into be a tree. The squirrel gives up his search and puts up a missing poster for the missing nut on the tree that the missing nut grew into.

I may not do all these, as there is potentially some other work that I may be doing for other peoples projects. To make time for this work, I may cut scenes from this project.