CAGD 345 Project 2: Knight Light

This was the second project of my sortyboarding class, and this time it was a group assignment. I worked together with another member of my class to create a new story, characters, storyboard and eventually animatic.

The story we came up with was Knight Light. The quick rundown would be that it is about a pair of night lights that work together to restore power after an outage. They travel around a child's bedroom and face spooky shadow creatures.


These are our two main characters, the sword and the shield night lights. The designs we chose stayed relatively consistent throughout, but we did consider some ideas like the sword's eyes being on his hilt, and the shield having no arms.

Here is our initial beat board, which takes us through the story in 5 quick beats. This helps us to know where our story is headed in terms of the overarching plot. With this, making the storyboard becomes much easier.

Above are our final are the story outline and the final script, in that order. These were written by my partner primarily, but they helped me get a scene by scene idea of what would happen in the story. After taking this information in, i created the storyboard below.
This almost completely summarizes the animatic you're about to see below. The only realy differences you will see are the addition of a frame where the child enters their bed, and a lot of sound effects and music. Overall this was an enjoyable project that helped me learn a lot about how to storyboard in a quick and effective manner. Without further adieu, enjoy Knight Light