Thursday, March 21, 2013

Storyboard - The Original Ending

When we were doing the original boards for the monkey film, this was the ending that we envisioned.






The idea that the laughter was coming from a group of school children while our protagonist was unwittingly living in a zoo had shades of the movie The Truman Show.  I always loved this ending and the potential surprise factor, but our story took a dramatic change when our mentoring professional story artist posed the simple question: why doesn't the monkey climb up the tree and get the banana?

This one question drastically altered the direction of our story, and while it was for the better, we lost some really great gags like this one.

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