Approved!

Despite my dire predictions, our "storyboard" has been approved by the client, so it's on to the animatics.

Of course, with no storyboard, I can't really build a 'real' animatic just yet(an animatic is just a crudely animated storyboard).

But I did put together a quick pseudo-animatic today, in Photoshop, using crude sketches, rendered frames, a few book illustrations and some images ... ahem ... borrowed from the web.

I incorporated some of the changes suggested by our geologists and ignored others. (Everybody's a movie director!)

My first take clocked in at about 70 seconds, which is right in the 60-90 second zone I'm shooting for. I'm hoping the producer will like it and send me a check, but I'm not holding my breath.

Now it's on to building the models for the pre-viz stage.