This was a short trailer i did for David and Goliath

This is my section of the animatic. Overall this was a new learning curve for me, and i've learnt to never take things at face value but investigate how to improve or adjust certain matters.. Me and my group had used toon boom storyboard pro, so that was also a new learning experience. I gained more insight of the pre visualisation stage and how to go about rectifying early stumble blocks. Overall this was a great insight that i respect more after actually doing it.



This was a narration i found on youtube, but it wasn't what we really wanted as a whole for this animatic. And so we went with the voice narration Troy found but we used the first part of this narration at the beginning of my animatic.

This was our main influence with the design.. Samurai jack.. This character is so easy and simple and is made out of basic shapes.

In the end, we all agreed that we were going to go ahead with this design. With Seni's design of Goliath and troy's design of david.

This is a sketch of a mountain for the army scene. with Israel standing on one and the philistine standing on the opposite..
The comic book panels that you also see is called the Lion Graphic Bible. This was an inspiration for a art style that i wanted to do, but it was too complex and so it had to be scrapped.

As you can see here are character designs and some of my panels. This also had to be scrapped because we wanted to keep everything easy and not too overwhelmed, so these ideas got scrapped.

Alot of things got changed from my initial idea, because i felt the description to what i had wrote down weeks ago wasn't giving the intensity level i wanted it to be, and so it had to be changed up. I realised when working on this animatic as the weeks progressed, certain aspect of my idea that i had before, got replaced or improved.. It was a real learning curve because the more the weeks rolled on by was the more i began to see the bigger picture, hence the replacing and improving on this project.

My idea for my scene


First scene

Panel 1:

Now there were two different armies of rivalling camps on mountains. The Philistines stood on one mountain and Israel stood on another mountain on the other side facing their enemy. There was a great valley between them.
This panel should be a long shot seeing both armies on the mountains facing each other with a valley in the middle.

Panel 2:

From the Philistines emerged a champion who went forth in front of his army and declared out loud “ Why have you come out to line up for battle?
In this panel we have a medium shot of Goliath pointing and saying these words, also within this panel showing his army behind him as he's pointing.

Panel 3
Goliath says:
“Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants.”
In this panel, a profile shot, showing Goliath smiling and looking evil while saying this.

Panel 4:

But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.
In this panel a close up of Goliath's lips indicating that he's saying this.

Panel 5:

“Goliath continued saying, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.
In this panel is a medium close up of Goliath in a welcoming pose as if to say he wants this fight to happen in a evil stance.

Panel 6:

When Saul and all of Israel had heard this they were greatly afraid.
In this panel, is a medium close up of saul and his army looking afraid.

Next scene

Panel 7:

In this panel, a close up of Jesse, the father of david's face looking worried.

Panel 8:

In this panel, a medium shot of david feeding his father's sheep



Panel 9:

In this panel, a worms eye view of Jesse looking down on david while david is feeding his father sheep while he's father says: Take these for your brothers in the army of Israel and to the captains of their thousands and see how your brothers are doing and bring back news of them.




Panel 10:

A close up of Jesse's hands having dried grain with Ten loaves and ten cheeses.

This was obviously from the bible