17 Mar 2016
Storyboard Showcase #1
by Nyquill

Storyboard Showcase #1

by Nyquill

A good storyboard can bring a map to life in ways we have never thought possible. Today, we show our appreciation to one of the members of the community who bring us expertly crafted animations rendered at the same frame rate the game is running at. That's right, Storyboard Showcases are back!

Before we get into today's storyboard, let's get some specifics about how the new storyboard showcases will work out of the way first:

  • Storyboard showcases will now feature insight from the storyboarder in the form of either an interview or a written paragraph. Hopefully, this will help us grow the storyboarding community in a new and interesting way.
  • Selection of the storyboard featured will alternate between a popularly suggested storyboard and a staff-picked storyboard. This time, since it's a new thing, we'll be starting with a storyboard that I picked. Be sure to send your suggestions for storyboards to be featured here!
  • Storyboard Showcases will now happen regularly monthly. The previous intervals proved a little dense to put in brief.

Without further ado, let's take a look at the first storyboard: yuiko & Meis Clauson - Aozora Memories by Gelbana!


The storyboard to Aozora Memories is a modest yet appealing interpretation of the song. The minimalistic elements of the storyboard are brought to life with the impressive implementation of animated typography via tiny dots. Needless to say, the size of the download (the .osb was pretty fat) was properly justified when you got to see each individual dot fly across the screen to form new visualizations and flash pretty colours!

I had the opportunity to ask Gelbana some questions regarding the creation of Aozora Memories. You can read about our encounter here.

With that, we have the conclusion of the first Monthly Storyboard Showcase. Did this feature help you learn something new today? Let us know in the comments! I'll be monitoring your submissions for what you would like to see next month attentively, so be sure to send those storyboards in.

—Nyquill

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I love you guys :D I play with Storyboard and Video so this is great to see!

Amazing

the storyboard is so wonderful

nc

yeah what a surprise to see storyboad showcase i'm so happy <3

*claps*

what did I miss! I love this part before XD

Quickbooks help 1844,556,6315

-throws some storyboard maps at you-

Molly- Beneath The Lights (Darren Styles Remix)- https://osu.ppy.sh/b/781873...
S3RL feat Tamika - I Will Pick You Up- https://osu.ppy.sh/b/544994
and DM vs. POCKET - uNDeRWoRLD MoNaRCHy- https://osu.ppy.sh/b/895643

such as video but this is a storyboard :o

wow amazing, std is probably the mode that allow u to appreciate the SB the most.

Good stuff.

That's amazing. I didn't know some of these effects were even possible with storyboarding alone.

Everything will freeze by Ekoro has an amazing storyboard and it should be mentioned.

Gelbana for Elite Storyboarder

I wish I have skills like that

I wish that I was old enough to get a animation job....

"Form an intimate relationship with the Ctrl + L keys."
hahahahahahaha

In the future, maybe record those auto replays with custom combo colors enabled. I don't speak for all storyboarders of course, but custom combo colors can also be relevant to the storyboard, especially if you're including certain elements that play with objects on the map.

Nyquill Monstrata

I'm pretty sure this was supposed to be recorded with custom combo colours enabled. I'll write a memo for next time.

Kung-fu Empire next plsplspls

It's been a while, it's finally back. Jeez and its about time

gelly for elite storyboarder 2016

11t pls

11t and Damnae pls

Endaris Rido

There's no way that we won't see Damnae at some point if this format keeps going x)

[Quality Content] STORYBOARD SHOWCASE #1

finally storyboards showcase, was waiting for this for so long

the storyboard is really amazing but the part that annoy me is some of those BG are from some anime so I can't have fully experience on it ;((

I was happy at the beginning about this news, then I watch the video. What I was hoping that the video will only show the storyboard, but it wasn't what I expected to be. I only wanna watch that storyboard.

based Gelbana ♥

Storyboard Showcase #1, the second. (^3

THIS IS ART

Finally, a new storyboard showcase after more than a year it's gone.

XinCrin win

I think it is better to use Cinema mod? o3o
Anyway, it is good to see it back o/

Seijiro Chaoslitz

Using cinema mod lets us see the storyboard way better indeed.
This should be considered case by case tho: if the storyboards use the objects' coordinates to create some cool effects (Neuronecia for example but it's not the only one) we still need to see objects to get the meaning behind the stroyboard imo

deadbeat Seijiro

I wanted to use auto to show how the storyboard would look while playing. honestly though, either or works

amazing btw
how can they make that? i want it ><

Very nice, we need more SB's like this

It is amazing indeed, and I can't wait to see more of this, storyboards make the map feel more alive

holy, what a surprise to see "storyboard showcase" appear once again. hype c:

That's an amazing storyboard and it was wonderful to watch the characters and scenery just come together very nicely

fun fact: while recording this, i was so sure it was a video i stopped recording to make sure videos were turned off.
seriously, this sb is amazing

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fun fact: while recording this, i was so sure it was a video i stopped recording to make sure videos were turned off.
seriously, this sb is amazing