Archive Collections: Storyboard Madness

By: Andrew Bermudez
(Mustache Maniacs Film Co. Headquarters; November 21, 2014)
We're back with another Archive Collections, this one focusing on storyboards! So, without further ado, let's get started!
Storyboards are a very important part of any film's pre-production, as they help alleviate the headache of planning shots as you go, which can give some less-than-satisfactory results. This is especially important for animation, where careful planning is crucial to ensure that everything reads properly on-screen. For that planning process, several thumbnails of different shots are compiled. These are the storyboards. For Mustache Maniacs Film Co., storyboards have been used extensively for pre-planning several animated films. Below are storyboards from some of these films.
First up are a series of storyboards for A Battle to Remember. For this film, the storyboards gave more of a synopsis than a shot-by-shot direction of the film, as it focuses mostly on the…