The early sketches before the storyboard can be very different than the final video drawings. This is just another fun part about the creation process. I find this an interesting part of my daily work and I have to admit that my favorite part is the moment I see the video footage I have sent to the editor edited together moving on the screen. My second favorite part but a lot more challenging is to begin drawing the rough ideas and concepts from the script.
At Wienot Films we take great care to talk to each client and ensure that we have as good an idea as humanly possible of what they are trying to express through the medium of whiteboard explanatory video. The building of an amazing script is very much not my style of fun and games but the amazing staff of individuals that work wonderful word magic take just enough time to turn out an amazing script do their job. Now I don’t want to tell you this but the script will continue to get massaged even while I work on the visuals, this isn’t because the script builders can’t ever finish rather they may be some last minute improvements the visuals will inspire so we’re always open to making it the best we can at any time.
It is always a bit of a race to run through the various steps of storyboarding. Starting with roughs and character designs though a couple phases of storytelling with stick figures to end with a polished and approved storyboard. The final storyboard is an exciting step for me and I feel a bit of relief as a fair amount of work has been put into the storyboarding process.
If the video is to have a look that I don’t do it will be sent to the illustrator of a more computer drawn look expertise. On the other hand, if the look we are going for is the hand drawn whiteboard awesomeness that I can do, I get to begin the laborious process of drawing on an actual whiteboard.
After the footage has been packaged and sent to the editor, I get to relax and wait for pickups and edits and then the excitement of seeing a draft of moving whiteboard animation! A really exciting one to see come together was this SimCorp video that has some construction concepts to teach and having some actual home building construction experience, it was fun to use some of that knowledge.
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