Design Sketches and Story Board for 3D Animation (College Work)

For my final project, I have decided to go with a winter scene, and a snowman. In this animation will be two balls of snow rolling towards each other, down separate hills to form a snowman. After time, children place items of clothing and a face on the snow man (Although, you shall never see the children, they will not be in scene.)  then finally melting, leaving the scarf and rocks which made the snowmans face, behind.

Here is my Design Sketches.

I thought this would be a lovely little animation, as it shows the passage of time, and how things can not stay forever. I will use a series of textures and little quirks to help me with this animation so it looks how I would like to have it. An Emitter NURB will help exceptionally well to show the collision of the snow balls when they smash together. The scarf will be made by a freehand spline which is connected to a Lathe NURB to create a slightly uneven scarf but so it goes around the snowmans neck. The colours of the scarf will be Blue and Yellow.


The storyboard will show each stage that will be in camera view. Some of them will be the same camera view but from a different side of the middle piece its self. I want it to look very cartoony and animated as possible, playing around with the angles I knew most, but experimenting with ways it can be viewed.