Blog #6: Thumbnails

I always thought that storyboards and thumbnails were the same thing. Turns out I was close. In this post I’ll be going over some of my thumbnails as I have already begun putting them into Animate in rough sketches. But I will also be reusing some from the Storyboard post because why do more work with something that already works, right? So, let’s get to it!

Here we are. A few have colors too them and are pretty close to how I want them to look in the rough draft. I’ll need to re-work the actual character, of course. But this should give me plenty of steam to push onward to get the whole thing pressed out with some very nice keyframes. Maybe even an animatic. Still has the same beats to it, I think the addition of a good action face shot will help with tying some attachment to the character, but albeit not much (since it’s only like 5 seconds total). Once I get the whole thing in Animate, and moving with just the rough stick figures, then I’ll layer them up and put in the real line work. But these roughs will hopefully keep me grounded and moving forward with the project since it’s due in like 3 weeks! Eeek! Wish me luck and I’ll see you in the next post!