Boats animation

This is a short glimpse at an animation we did recently. Unfortunately I cannot reveal more because we are bound by one of those NDAs, but suffices to say it is about sea and boats, and I did a whole storyboard by hand before animating, which was a tremendously enlightening exercise, since, while it only cost us a small amount of time, it allowed us to gain very much control over the whole process, including the discussion with the client (everything is "decided" before the real work begins), and the animation itself. We never really thought much about film sequencing before (archviz walkthroughs being very "straightforward"), and this allowed us to really plan and think about scenes beforehand.

In short, if you work with animations, never do it without a storyboard...