The Six Swans

Storyboards / styleframes

Storyboard and styleframes based on the Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Six Swans. 

The Six Swans tells the story about six brothers cursed to transform into swans by day and return to their human forms by night, and their sister who must sew six shirts of nettle for them to wear in order to break the curse.

The sequence plays with the motifs of light and shadow, obscurity and revelation, and the idea that things are not always as they first seem.
The style emulates the rendering of classical paintings, injected with subtle naturalistic movement, like injecting life into the still images of a fairy tale book.

This project has stalled at the motion test phase, but one day I hope to go back and animate the entire sequence.

Storyboard

Series of 7 sequences depicting scenes of the humans transforming into humans
Movement: parallax panning camera motion / swans and humans are animated in slow motion / leaves, feathers, other objects are animated in 2D paralax
Credits are revealed from behind objects as they move away in each sequence

Styleframes