when i moved to story boarding i was trying to work quickly with the drawing, just trying to create storylines. at this point i knew lots of the information about all the animals, and they’re threats. so i did multiple storylines for different animals. at this point i had decided i wanted to do an animation, but i needed to think about what i would enjoy drawing and what i could actually do.
I wanted to represent all the different issues and threats towards these endangered animals. I had ideas of putting different scenes in of the animals when they were happy before making a contrast to the poaching.
For example I would have a scene of the baby rhino playing with its mum. then i would have a scene of the baby polar bear playing with its family. then it would cut to a scene of the rhino mum on the floor after its horn being cut off, with the little baby trying to wake its mum up, then it would go to a scene of the polar bears with their mum, trying to her up, but she’s died due to the heat from global warming.
while doing these storyboards I decided I wanted this animation to be sad rather than horrific or grotesque, as I feel that sad would evoke more emotion and make people think more about the subject.
After further reflection I decided to go with one idea from the storyboard. I chose the one with the seal and baby penguin.
