[su_dropcap style=”simple” size=”4″]A[/su_dropcap] storyboard, folks, is where it begins. A storyboard is a visual representation of the story. It comes in the form of a series of sketches or images (that just might look a lot like manga!). This sequence of sketches or images, in turn, comes from the script, which comes from the writers. The storyboard shows things such as what and how many characters will be in a certain scene, what the environment will look like, how the plot progresses, so on and so forth.

The storyboard is important for both the client and the production team. For the client, they will actually get to “see” what the production team has in mind for the script or story. For the production team, making the storyboard helps them to calculate precisely how many animated scenes are needed in the video (or short film, or film), and thus to work out the length of the video, how many artists would be needed in the production team, and how long it would take to create it.