More Storyboards

As I said in my last post, our monkey film underwent several transitions and gags while in development.  During the earlier days, the monkey's failed attempts would result in laughter that appeared to come from a couple of birds.  When I was drawing boards I started having the monkey use these birds in some of his attempts, which resulted in the following boards.

My friend who was working as a story artist at Disney loved this gag, and it is one of my favorites from the film as well.  Unfortunately it was also one of the first to go when the story changed direction.  Sometimes your favorite material has to be cut when it is not the best for the overall story, and this was one of the casualties.