After completing the process of my own storyboards, I decided to look at the storyboards of my favourite animated films to actually see their initial concepts and how they first came about.
I obviously started with these storyboards by Graham Annabelle, from the movie Coraline not only because I am obsessed with the film, but also because I thought it would be interesting to see a stop motion film in its very first pre production process.
I found these storyboards to bring a balance of having a substantial amount of detail on a rather minimalistically illustrated image. I love the use of shading and bold aspects to 'the other mother' to represent her devious and contrasting identity to Coraline herself. But I also love how simplistic the illustrations are, so that they can be universally understood.
Not just in this sequence, but in all Graham Annabelle's work he intertwines so many angles in his shots to give a very realistic feel to even just a storyboard. Since Coraline is a stop motion film, it does have this realistic element to it since it's materials and aesthetics are based on real life fabrics and elements. But in combination with for example low angle shot to a point of view shot, this gives more dimension, and also makes the audience feel like they actually are part of the film, like what British philosopher Richard Wollheim calls 'central imagining'. And I am completely in love with these storyboards.
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