Premiere Pro Fun

 

Sharing our Storyboards

 

Time to put this thing into premiere!

 

We took pictures of Erin's storyboard and adjusted the timing in Adobe Premiere. After some fiddling with, it flowed like an animatic should. However, it still needed some fixes. 

We then examined Erin's and Emily's similar storyboards to determine which scenes and shots conveyed the story most effectively. The two storyboards were a little different, but close enough to the same general storyline it was possible to cut-and-paste them together.

 

Taping together the storyboards

Literally.

 

We added in a few frames in red pen to fill in gaps that formed between the storyboards when we merged them. The clearer the story, the better!

 

Taped-together storyboard, looking spiffy!

 

 

Some of the frames we added.

 

Then we put our new-and-improved storyboard into Premiere and edited the timing once again.

 

My personal favorite part, where Nessie slurps sailors up her nose

 

The animatic was nice, but what might the finished product look like? Andrea (the middle person in the above image) advised us to make concept art: a few drawings of colored, finished-looking scenes and characters from our animatic. Erin and I drew line art of a couple scenes, and Ashley outlined it in Adobe Sketch on her ipad. Then we took turns coloring the scenes.

 

My drawing of Bean stuck to the kelpie

 

 

Erin's drawing of Bean walking in the forest

 

 

Ashley's Adobe Sketch tracing of Erin's drawing.

 

(Tip: don't use black as an outline color! It makes the drawings look flat.)

 

 

A colored scene by Ashley.

 

We spent a while discussing and testing out colors for our main character Bean and decided on a light gray tone. I changed some of the colors in the concept art and drew  and added cast light and shadows from the moon and lantern.

 

The visual concepts of the final product looked great, and so did the animatic-in-progress.

Now it was time to add audio...