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So as some of you will know I used to be a storyboarder for (you can laugh), Barbie films- and I had a great time! Rainmaker was a lovely studio and I worked with some great people, and while there were always tough times on the whole it was a wonderful and invaluable working experience.
One of the best films I worked on was Princess Power, here’s a scene from it that I enjoyed doing. They did change some things in the final pass but really I was amazed how much they kept in!
okay so I’ve decided to whole-ass the thing instead of half-ass the thing, meaning that this fictitious storyboard looks like it will take a while to finish considering I have actual work storyboards to do as well… (maybe I’ll have time to round it off at the weekend idk man we’ll see)
on the plus side I can happily inform you that the scene is short and involves Arthur being both hatless and completely sopping wet
Okay so I’m hauling my way through my archives for pre-production stuff, and I found this dude, The Bandit, who I really love and I’m very sorry wasn’t in SKIP but them’s the breaks.
He was in one of the original versions of the film, and in the more refined storyboard for quite a long time- so, yeah, here’s the version that didn’t make it! The gag was that, since Arthur is a black and white movie character, the bandit would freak out and think he was a ghost.
Of course, people didn’t get the joke with a colourless storyboard…
I do think it would have worked in the end, but I’m much happier with the ending it has now for a multitude of reasons, and animating that shawl would have been a real killer. Anyway, thought you might like to see some of the process :)
Oh and here’s a little bonus early colour theory for the film as a whole-
