[Chris Nowak]

Basically, you just get some massive sheets of paper and some markers and map out a sequence of events in your animation. Last year, we did an animation about our robot in a sort of nuclear reactor type situation. We had about 1 brief sketch for each of the six different shots and a description(like camera angles and such) of what goes on in that shot, and what needs to be done for that shot. That was how we did it, but I think that we may have not gone in enough detail. I think that you should maybe make about 3 or 4 sketches for each scene so that everyone can at least have a good idea of what is going on. It should be something that you can refer to often. Not following it led us to disaster last year when we kind of forgot about the different amounts of time we had plannned for each segment. At the end, we only had about 20 seconds of animation so I had to quick improvise some shots (which didnt turn out that bad).

As to getting ideas for a storyboard, just think about what FIRST means to you. If FIRST means robots and competition, then just demonstrate the game. If it means gracious professionalism, then think of a creative way to demonstrate that.