Animatics

To get some idea of how I will storyboard my animation I have been looking at the animatics of the Pixar film 'Cars'. I have been looking at this film in particular as Pixar have managed to bring an inanimate object to life and give it expressions and emotions. This is a process I should understand as I have decided to animate a plane.

As this is my first animation, giving my plane such expressive facial movements like in the animatic above would be out of my ability, so I shall try to express my character through the plane's movements and the sounds it makes. For example, if the plane is flying, diving and twirling carelessly, it would suggest a carefree personality or if it were angry the engine would rev up extremely fast.

It's a shame that only a trailer has been released for the 2013 film planes. Although it is interesting seeing the kind of camera angles they used to suggest motion and the feeling of flying.