A Penny for your thoughts
One of the most important aspect in this project is story. You’ve probably heard this phrase before "Story is King". This phrase has been mentioned numerous times in the pass by people from Pixar. It is very true that a good story will guarantee a first place in the box office. Therefore, we try to come up with good story for each and every episode of Hello Kitty to ensure that the audience will enjoy watching them. I would like to take some time here to talk about one of the production process that we use on this TV series, storyboard. Storyboard is important because animators will need directions when they are animating the characters. A storyboard provide a lot of in formations such as camera angles and movement, character poses, scripts, and timing. Therefore, a storyboard is like a blueprint of the final product and it is important that we establish a good storyboard before we start animating. Here is an example of a storyboard..

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June 6th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
They use “storyboards” too for the making of comic books, right? :3 Though they do that panel by panel
June 13th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
I am not quite sure what happens in a comic book, but storyboard is like a comic strip.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
NcISAw cool blog, man!