Visual Language- Set/scene/Sequence-Sequential Imagery and Drawing Practice-10-The Lion King

  Sequential Imagery and Drawing Practice: The Lion King

 Normally storyboards are done more basic so that time can be spent on animating and other aspects of the animation but these are they storyboards done for The Lion King. I was very surprised to see these done in this much detail as they budget was less for this movie as the main focus was to produce Pocahontas. On the other hand this might be why so much time was spent getting every frame perfect. As there was less money for the animators so it was cheaper to hire good storyboard artists compared to animators.

The way these have been done is very stylised, the characters have already been built up into the final characters so this made it really easy for people to come from the outside and understand what was happening, but also produce an animation that looked exactly like the storyboard. This made it easier to create the movie as there were no debates on camera shots or perspectives, as it was all done on the storyboards.

This proves how important they are within movies and animation, as they help people to produce a movie that they have never seen but understand what is happening and what will happen, as well as letting people see what the character can look like. This is also done in concept design, so the two go hand in hand in letting the overall outcome be understood and come to life.

Here in the image bellow you can clearly understand and see what is happening and where the camera focus needs to be for each shot and second of the animation. They have also done this by shading certain characters so they become less the focus for when a new character comes in.  This is shown by Timon being brighter than Simba when he is walking away.