Most people never see the storyboards from an animated film. The boards are created to show how the story fits together and are the blueprints to the final film. I recently came across these storyboard thumbnail drawings fromTex Avery, who rough out some of the gags in his animated cartoon called "Shhhhh" from 1955.
The film is about a nervous little man who is told by his doctor that he needs to live a quiet lifstyle or he may explode. Of course, this is the set up of many gags where he is trying to avoid loud noises and situations.
Here are the first two rough storyboards of the film. See if you can understand what is happening, then take a look at the video below.
In the video below, the thumbnail drawings on the left and the final cartoon on the right to show how the rough ideas became final poses in the completed cartoon.
As you can see not all the gags were in these thumbnail storyboards. I hope to post more storyboard/final film comparisons in the near future. Let me know if you enjoyed this video and want to see more.
