Dive | Storyboard Animatic

Dive’s story, initially, used to be about competition. Specifically, about how one competes more with themselves rather than their competitors, or how one should focus more on themselves when competing.

Instead, I am revisiting, changing the story to forego the inclusion of competitors as its focal point; the story is transforming into something about one’s mental state while performing at the highest competitive level—(After all, our biggest competitors are ourselves). Dive depicts a single gnome participating in an Olympics-style diving event who encounters a dragon sometime along the way.

While I continue to develop this story, I’m thinking about juxtaposing grace with danger, even death. (With some comedy in the mix).

The “dragon” in Dive is the dragon of archetype: It is the embodiment of danger, death, and opposition; it is the thing within us that tries to hold us back; it is the beast that guards the treasure; it is doubt. The “dragon” is something athletes encounter every time they train and especially in every event that they compete in. This is a story about a competitive performer who outruns their personal dragon in the highest dive of their career.

Dive Exploration

Thumbnails, process, rough beats.

Thank you!