So to start off my adventure in making my first film, my appraoch is to get rid of the backgrounds out of the way. this way with all them completed, i can animate the characters and have them be porportionally correct in every scene. when we first watched my animatic in our class, i felt that my was alittle too long timing wise and figured that my teacher would want me to trim some scenes out. Actually, she said it was fine and that it was the dialouge that was not really neede. some lines were better off not being said at all and just have the characters play them out. So now here are some early layout picturews from my styoryboard from last year's spring semester in which i created my story.