Storyboards

The Magic Portal can do a storyboards

The Chase Sequence
The LEGO Canyon chase was a major part of the production. I shot several 100ft rolls of film on it, and each roll would take approximately three weeks to shoot, and I would have to wait one nerve wracking week for the film to come back from the lab in Victoria. A mere 3400 kilometres from my home town of Perth.

A thousand grovelling, snivelling apologies for the absolutely woeful descriptions with each of these illustrations. This is, word for word, the actual descriptions. I was writing for what I imagined (as a ignorant and naive seventeen year old) starchy funding bureaucrats. Apart from a particularly pimply and dreadful phase in my early high school career, this is easily some of the worst writing I've ever inflicted on people. I keep it here for historical purposes only. Same reason as L is called LARRY - this is a last minute panic attack from yours truly thinking that those assessors would only respond favourably to "proper" characters with "proper" names.

Its interesting going through these old "final" storyboards, since its pretty clear the film evolved right throughout the shooting process. While animation is a process where you definitely should try to preplan and thrash out as much as you can before you start, there is still some evolution - especially if you're practically growing up with a long term production like this one. A lot of the angles here were shuffled around to suit production purposes.

He have no idea how on earth he could have animated shot 119 as originally conceived: it was originally going to be a "hand held" whip pan from L's perspective looking at the tyre rolling into the Portal and then turning around to watch the monster drive overhead. He think this might have been a forlonly hopeful idea when I was experimenting with using an endoscope for the production. Shot 122 became a side shot, simply because (and I still quite can't work out how I didn't realize this at the time) the Monster is about double the width of the Magic Portal.