We decided the next step was to create an animatic, which just needed to be the most important few keyframes for each shot, held for the length of that shot. To do this we needed to make the shot list even shorter, but we managed to condense it even further into fourteen key moments and make a storyboard together:

We shared the keyframes among us to turn into full-sized drawings, and then I put them together into an animatic:

An interesting development that came from making this animatic was actually a stylistic decision. We all really liked Evelyn’s drawing for her keyframes, which we done digitally but looked like they’d been made pastel or charcoal:

It reminded me of William Kentridge’s animation, which I shared with the group:

If we adopt this sort of style for the 2D section at the start, the animation as a whole will maintain a handmade feel throughout. That would help to unify the two different animation mediums, while still keeping the important contrast between the black and white 2D section and the colourful stop motion section.