Storyboard - Monkey Gag Tree Breaking

During my tenure at school, our senior project was an animated short film that unfortunately languished in development-hell for the three semesters that we worked on it.  In the semester prior to ours, the screenplay writing class students wrote a 7 minute short cartoon for their final project, and we would sort through the 4 best scripts to choose one for our film.  The script that won was a story about a monkey trying to get bananas out of a tree.  The writer intended for it to be a fast-paced Wile E. Coyote style cartoon, though the story needed a lot of work.

I was put in charge of the story team, and we went to work.  Our early story had the protagonist monkey failing to get the bananas, and hearing laughter that he presumed to be coming from a trio of birds at every failure.  As I will show, this story evolved a great deal, but this is one of the early scenes I boarded.

In this scene our protagonist tries edging out on a branch to the bananas, only to have disaster (and in my opinion, only luke-warm laughter) befall him.  It should be easy to tell why this gag was abandoned, but some of the drawings worked.

More to come very soon.