A storyboard is a large, linear comic strip of the film or animation, which is produced beforehand to help the film directors and cinematographers visualize the scenes and identify some of the potential problems before they occur. Storyboards often include arrows, lines of action and instructions that indicate movement and frame progression.
The first person to use “storyboards” is thought to have been Leonardo da Vinci.1 The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney studio during the late 1920s after years of similar processes being used at other animation studios. Walt Disney and his artists “invented” the storyboard in 1929 with the making of Steamboat Willie, the first animated cartoon feature. This method is still used in the movie industry today. Storyboarding became the planning process for Disney’s entire organization. Walt Disney World was planned exclusively via storyboarding.2
Storyboarding became popular in live-action......
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