Animated Storyboard

The Wonderful Woods.  Coming to life…

The storyboard for the Wonderful Woods came about through true passion for art and collaboration.  Film writer and teacher Steven De Luna developed and wrote the concept of the show. Without the right artist to bring the story to life visually, however, the Wonderful Woods would have remained only a dream.  Luckily this is when Joey Garcia, a painter and graphic designer, came in as art director.  His unique artistic style brings a fresh design to children’s programming.  The characters used storyboard went from sketches to figures in only a few days.

To shoot the project, Steven, who was working in San Diego while Joey was in Los Angeles, needed assistance animating and planning the technical stop motion camera work.  Katrina Carrick from Red Whisker Photography, shot for fashion blogs and specialized in shooting stills on miniature sets, was completely new to the stop motion world.  But with her strong passion and eager to learn attitude made her the perfect missing piece of the puzzle to begin shooting.  Katrina came in as an assistant/intern role, but very quickly became the Director of Photography as well as the second animator.

The storyboard was produced with great economy in mind and was shot in only thirteen days, and for under $200.  The storyboard was animated completely blind, meaning that the animators had no way to view what they were animating until after the shots were completed and could not be altered. This was the same practice of how things were done in the original heyday of stop motion. 

The set used was built using only paper, cardboard, gift wrap, toothpicks and spray paint.

To learn more about the concept and feel of the Wonderful Woods please contact Steven by email or phone.