Personal Project Animatics

I made two animatics in this process according to my second and third storyboards. The beginning of the animation is pretty similar to each other. I needed to create a reason for the boy to enter the afterlife so the first part of my storyboard is about the boy getting tired of his mother telling him how to perform the customs of winter solstice.

This is the first storyboard I made. I saw a human figure and it turned into a tree that started to chase me and actually, it is leading me out of the afterlife to protect me.

The second storyboard added an enemy in the afterlife that the tree is protecting me from. At this stage, I focused on researching how to create tension in my story. I have multiple turning-around shot and the sudden appearance of the enemy and tree as a designed jump scare.

I changed the character of the tree in the third storyboard. There are no more enemies in the afterlife and the tree itself became a monster-looking figure with a distorted face. However, when the light shine on the tree’s face, it morphed back into my grandfather’s.

The last storyboard has more amended shots like the introduction to the afterlife, and the jeopardy in the afterlife where the boy falls and at last is saved by the tree.

I tried to connect the measuring of the boy’s head with the design of the tree in the afterlife. Finally, he realized that it is his grandfather who was always there for him.