[Mike Betts]

Liz,

Here is yet another suggestion... Go to your local video rental store and rent the Shrek DVD.

Besides being a great example of a really great professional animation, there is a Special Feature on disk 2 called the "The Tech of Shrek". This is an excellent insight into the organization of a large project.

More to the point: Also a Special Feature on Disk 2, you will find "Storyboard Pitch of Deleted Scenes". This is a really great example of how the pros use a storyboard, the pace (how many frames/seconds to a picture) and relative detail (some of the pictures were pretty simple). Even better, these were storyboard pitches which never made the final movie (not every idea works out).

I used this with my students last November and feel that it worked pretty good at getting the point across.