TESTED's Adam Savage watches Aardman storyboard Early Man

On a behind-the-scenes visit to Aardman for Early Man, Adam Savage's TESTED channel sits in with one of the studio's story artists on the storyboard stage -- described on-site as "a road map that tells you how the action of the film is going to go." It is the same sequence-by-sequence planning pass that animation scholar Paul Ward's case study of Aardman treats as a "boundary object" read across story, direction, design and scheduling before a single puppet exists. Folded into the Wiki's new storyboard-and-animatic concept page alongside Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings story-reel process and Aardman's Vengeance Most Fowl previs research, as the studio-floor worked example of the same stage the academic and director interviews describe from the office.