This is a reverse storyboard of Disney’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. I did it for my multimedia class as a sort of intro to motion graphics. We were allowed to pick a scene from a movie of our own choosing. So, I walked to Second Time Around (a used DVD/CD/Videogame, etc. store on Brown Street) and picked two to choose from: Clue and, obviously, Alice in Wonderland. I chose the latter because I thought illustrating an already illustrated movie would produce better results. Not sure if this is true, but whatever.

The scene had to include at least 17 camera changes (I believe mine had ~24). Then, the fun began. Play, pause, draw play, pause, draw, on and on and on. The sketches were to be fairly rough, with enough information to at least be able to distinguish between characters, foreground, middle ground, background, etc. We were also told to include arrows to help the viewer understand how the camera and characters were moving. Probably have to click the High-Res link to see any detail. And then you’ll probably have to zoom even more.

So, I think it will take a very long time for me not to have Alice and the White Rabbit’s lines running through my head…

Some that are especially engrained in my mind:

“It must be something awfully important, like a party or something!” (Alice to Dinah)

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no- this cannot do! I’m really in a stew!” (Rabbit)

“Curiousity often leads to TRO-UB-LE!!!” (Alice as she falls down the hole)

and I cannot forget Dinah’s insistent “MEOOOW!”s.  

Anyway. Love this movie. Maybe I’ll turn this into an animatic someday. We’ll see.