Boards

Here’s a general description of the actions:

Our animation is built of three components, the hype, the action, and the finale. In the opening seconds of the animation, we establish the location as well as all the objects relative to each other. The first character we see is the tape as it finishes its, job taping down the canvas. The hype continues with the rolling out of the paint buckets, setting up for the action that is to come.

The action component begins with the falling of the palette knife and mallet that opens the cans of paint. The lids splash and make a pattern as they fall onto the canvas. A meek roller peeks out over the edge of the top shelf as it jumps like an Olympic diver, doing a twist as and flip as it falls. Like synchronized swimmers, brushes then jump in and join in a frenzy of action. Then comes the spray-paint, who line up along the edge and jump in graceful line creating a beautiful arch as they fall. The next part of action I generally more undefined as we want to take more time to carefully choreograph the action.

Finally, as the music falls and we see the tape once again rolling across the screen taking us into the finale. It rips up the canvas from the ground, undoing what it first did. In one sudden action, the canvas springs into a vertical position revealing the hard work of the characters for all to see.