Storyboard text version 1

The story is about a little boy growing up. In thier world, children at a specific time become a chrysalis, after which they may become moths, butterflies or cicadas. Some people think it is necessary, some are eager for it, and some are very resistant.

Take this little boy, for example. He kept running on the grass, trying to break free of the silk that entangled him. He kept running into the forest, but the silk in his body was still trapped with him, and finally, he couldn’t run any more—the silk-wrapped him.

After a long time, he becomes a chrysalis, the liquid ooze out of the chrysalis, and the chrysalis falls to the ground. A human moth emerges from its chrysalis. The honey of the plants attracted all the human moths, human butterflies and human cicadas. They followed one different flower after another.
At last, they came to their door, and no one of them knew what was behind it, but all of them knew that this was where they belonged. The boy went in and closed the door.

The camera cuts to another point of view, and this is a giant coffin. Thread twined around the coffin, and they became pupae again.

This is a simple storyboard in order to let me start making my animation faster. I will update the more detailed version later.

Storyboard text version 2

Because I understood my first version of the storyboard, I only refined each shot when modifying the storyboard later.

Backgroud reference

In the background of the running clip, I refer to the game map design of the game I’m currently playing, the game Final Fanyasy 14. This game is very delicate in the background of the map, and the light and shadow of the time change, so I chose it as a reference.

Some references from other animation

RESULT

Character Design version 1

The protagonist prototype of this animation is my favourite Kabuki actor Somegoro Ichikawa. He has many characteristics of Asian teenagers, such as his eyes and face shape. This is what I hope to reflect in the animation.

So I found many of his photos and used software to transform them into various animation styles for reference.
Finally came up with the first version of the character design.