Storyboards, Model Sheets, Final Project Beginning

So for the final project, despite having a lot of other ideas (that are more coherent stories rather than disjointed little segments of a greater story), I've decided to make an animation that could be used as a teaser trailer for my senior thesis project. It just makes the most sense time-wise, and I think it will be good animation practice ( a lot of camera work and dealing with human and non-human forms) as well as tying my senior thesis together well.

The story board was a little hard to put together, since each scene is rather short and more about introducing the characters than telling your basic linear story. I tried to keep everything grounded by giving the animation a 'real time' part, but I don't know how successful that will be in the end. I may end up changing the style of the not real time parts a little to make it clearer, maybe bluer tones vs yellower tones? Not sure yet.

The model sheets were pretty easy since I've already drawn all the characters for Thesis. So that was probably the most convenient part of this animation.

I'm most worried about time for this animation because trying to do this, thesis, and multimedia authoring is getting to be a heavy workload. So instead of going in with a slow approach, I'm basically trying to animate the whole thing as roughly and quickly as possible. That way I can go back later and make everything look the way I want it to, and if I don't have time to finish that, at least I've already finished the whole story. 

Hopefully for this project I'm either going to use some other programs to create backgrounds and maybe some other stuff too. Drawing in flash is so different from every other drawing program it always throws me off, especially when it comes to backgrounds.