An animatic is used as a rough sketch/ animation to show the motions that your story will be following in each frame, as well as your characters movements in each scene. We then used the screenplay and story to make a graphic novel to visually lay out the story and then cut it up to form the animatic.

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I found much inspiration from my self portrait unit as well as from some of my own dreams. A little late in the project I found some from a girl named Laura Dekker, the youngest person to sail the world solo. She helped me show some of the enthusiasm in the travel portion of this piece. For the college portion I had some help from my friend who has a good idea of where she wants to go and what she wants to do with her life, in particular, college.

I foud that this piece really set the pace for my overall narrative project. I have had a very hard time working through completing this project. But the animatic has helped me stay of track for the rest of my animation.

 

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