Story Board

Decided to go with the idea of the figure popping out of the page.
I tried to come up with ideas for a character but they werent very good and I got frustrated and thought of using stick ment instead?

Above is a really quick sketch of the key frames to the storyline. They're only quick skechbest because the real thing wil be done as a stop motion taking photographs. I came up with this storyline from my 3 words which are movement, darkness and exploration.

The animation starts off with the music intro being really slow and calm, not much happening. A hand appears and draws a figure on a page/peice of paper lying around on the desk.

The hand and pen disappear and the character gets up out of the page and starts to look around.

The beat kicks in in the music and the character starts to run. It climbs over objects on the desk as if hes on a mission to get somewhere, is looking for something.

The character then gets to a wall and finds a peice of rope/string. Im either going to draw that in or it'll be lying around. It throws it up to the shelf and climbs up.

It then walks across the shelf and sees what its been looking for. Heads towards the money box.

The figure uses the feather from the mask to climb up to the money box.

The figure is then sitting on top of the money box and relaxes for a second.

The books start to fall and knock the figure off the money box and it clings to the edge.

The books fall and the figure pulls the money box down with it. The money spills out all over the desk.

The camera zooms in untill you see an image of the character squished under all the money.


I was happy with this untill i listened to the music one more time. There is a dark and eerie feel to it and so I thought of changing the animation so that it is in the dark with just a spotlight (desk lamp) following the figure through its adventure. The ending also could be changed, and instead of the character dying under the money it could fall into the darkness. I think this ending would better reflect the mood of the music.