Revised Storyboards

 

A writer will write up a first draft of a story and put it away for a little while, in order to see the material later with fresh eyes. As a storyboard artist, I am doing the same thing visually. I noticed that our bad guys see the cat too soon, which doesn't build any tension during the story. We also only want to see only glimpses of the cat in action at first, until revealing its the cat closer to the end of the episode. 

This weekend, I went back over the storyboards and revised a bunch of scenes. I also made a rough animatic, to see how the new material cut together. I think the story is finally working now and I have been preparing scene layouts and adding them to scene folders. I've counted 41 or so scenes in this episode and below are a few of the new storyboards...

 The Cat's shadow zips by...

That's a Flashlight that falls to the ground.

Trying not to give away too much of the story by only showing some of the storyboards. Do you understand what's going on? Is it making sense? Should I keep going? Send me a comment.

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Meet the Patels!

Meet the Patels is on Netflix now! Check out the animation and enjoy this interview...

 

Before WatchCat, I worked on this film...

 

"Meet the Patels" is a great, entertaining documentary that I worked on creating the animated characters of the live action family in the film. The film took 6 years to complete and now is playing in theaters across the US!

Below is the official Trailer where, you can see the first shots of animation, so don't blink.

Here's a recent review from the LA Times.

Time Magazine!

Here's an interview from WGN in Chicago! 

And here is some rough animation which never made it in the final film...

Rough_Meet the Patels animation from Toondini on Vimeo.

If you have seen this film already, please let a comment below. WatchCat Approved!