Midterm Project: Toothy's Fall

A storyboard for a story I was hoping to complete soon.


To summarize, Toothy is a small monster living on some isolated floating city-planet.  He finds himself on top of a building on his planet and marvels at the height it is before his tall friend Bert appears, approaches him from behind, and, in his elation to see him, accidentally drops him off the building.

The scene starts with a far shot of the setting of our story: a floating city in space.  It then zooms in to the rooftop of one of the buildings where a small, purple monster (Toothy) is standing.  As we watch him, Toothy stands there, shifting his eyes and blinking.  He has forgotten where he is.  He then walks up to the edge of the building.  As he's moving forward, the camera revolves around him to look over his shoulder and down the edge of the building (what Toothy sees).  It's very far down.  Toothy's eyes bulge at the height he is at, and he slowly starts to back away.  As he's backing up, a trap door behind him pops up.  The view switches to see who comes out of the back door: a top of a head that reveals itself to be a tall, yellow monster: Bert.  Bert blinks after popping his head out of the trapdoor.  He smiles when he sees his friend Toothy.  The view switches behind the two monsters as Bert approaches Toothy, still backing up.  The view then cuts to the fronts of the characters.  Toothy wipes invisible sweat off his forehead ("Phew!") and Bert is still walking towards Toothy.  He raises his arms and a big smile forms on his face.  Bert grabs Toothy in a big hug (Toothy squishes in the grip) and Bert spins him around.  As he's spinning he walks towards the edge of the building and lets Toothy go.  Toothy drops off the building, out of our sight, and Bert looks down ("Oops.")

There will be no voices throughout the scene; everything (such as "phew!" and "oops") will be expressed through the actions of Toothy and Bert.

Note: The names of the characters will never be said or revealed through the video, but for storytelling purposes, I have included both their names.

The following is a video of the rough draft of half the camera effects I would like to utilize in the video, although badly timed and incomplete.  The characters are absent, but it introduces the setting of their antics