Making a storyboard
Special thanks to VJ USK. He brought me the idea and the sketches for a storyboard XD plugin. It is fun to code in Adobe XD platform.
I looked up how people are working with storyboards within their creative projects and I am inspired by the following software projects on the net
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Screenplay
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Game story
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Storyboard
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Video - factual/documentary production
I did not know about screenwriting for my career as a software developer in 25 years. When I searched about storyboard applications, I also found a blog of Toy story of Disney that the blue-ray disk had a bonus content about making storyboards. So I went down a CD/DVD store in downtown Tokyo- Akihabara where you can find old classic games and videos of any sort and finally found the series of ToyStory 1, 2, and 3. I bought all of them. It cost 7000 yen( $550) . It was the first time I bought blue-ray disks and watched Toy Story series. What a good place Akihabara was. The films were masterpieces of the digital world.
The bonus content showed how Pixar’s DNA of storytelling. ToyStory, Nimo and Mr.Incredible were well referenced. Those of the key scenes are explained with the ideas and the secrets of the screenplay. The blue-ray also contains other bonus content such as Tom Hanks interview etc. The struggle and their devotion to the film were great.
So interested in Pixar’s work, I read a book - The Pixar Touch written by Price, David A
CATMULL’s philosophy of computer animation.
Embedded in the Genesis sequence—on screen for anyone to see, yet visible only to the expert eye
JOHN LASSETER, 1994
Character animation isn’t the fact that an object looks like a character or has a face and hands.
Character animation is when an object moves like it is alive, when it moves like it is thinking and
all of its movements are generated by its own thought processes…. It is the thinking that gives
the illusion of life. It is the life that gives meaning to the expression.
As [Antoine de] Saint-Exupéry wrote, “It’s not the eyes, but the glance—not the lips, but the smile.”
Not only a story but animation, audio and interaction deeply motivate people to save the world. We may challenge to act for global issues like Bill Gates suggests.
Naoya Yamamoto
21st December, 2019