Storyboard

Now it was the time to work on a story. It was quite difficult to think of a way to transfer from one environment to another, but in the end I thought of a way to do it.

The animation will start in the ruins. The character will enter the shot and will be looking for something. Can't find it. Gets angry and hits the pail. By hitting the pail the whole background breaks like a mirror. The fly is scared and flies off the screen while the background is collapsing revealing new fresh background. The fly is landing in the new environment. It looks happy and flies away into the distance.

I decided to make the storyboard in Maya. That way I can set key on every pose, which will help me in animation process.

As for the background, I had to create it in Photoshop. First I found an image of a broken mirror.

Then I added a cut and resized image of the background for each broken piece. Every piece is on a separate layer, so they all can fall in a realistic way.

And here is the final storyboard: