"The Interview" Storyboards

Hey hey hey! Just thought I would share 2 of my storyboard shots for "The Interview," a commercial I'm animating for MOLI.com. I've been working on making the set and will start animating next week. Robbie Broadhurst has already layed down his voice for two characters. Should be fun.

Gotta Rethink The Way I Do Things

So I’m so close to animating I can smell it. I’ve got the storyboards complete, and the characters and set ready. So last night I sat down to break down the prerecorded dialogue frame by frame so I can lip-sync the characters. Usually this is pretty simple. I just right out the syllables and how many frames they are. Then I draw a little symbol of the approximate shape the mouth will make. And that’s it. From there I have a little freedom to shape the mouths throughout the animating process.



But this short includes a couple moments where two characters have completely different lip-syncs going on at the same time. After writing out the frames and syllable for each, I realized my way of doing this won’t work. Look at this layout of two characters laughing hysterically, it’s a mess. It’s too confusing and there’s no way I’ll be able to sync everything up right.



I need to put the information down in a different way so I can translate it to the animation more effectively.