storyboards & animatics

So i've finally done a storyboard. I did two versions of the storyboard as i had planned. One of them was telling the story without the puppet and the other with scenes with the puppet. After having looked at both the storyboards, the story without the puppet seems to be stronger and a lot clearer, though i was really into the concept of the puppet before, having looked at it together, it doesnt work that well.

This is my animatic for now. I feel that the ending ends to fast and must be developed and the middle part with the conflict, must have more close up shots and possible different shots.
After showing my storyboard to my classmates, they have suggested the same. Also on my storyboard that is not on my animatic, is that i have coloured the main characters hair and skin. As I want to distinguish the physical differences, one of classmates had suggested that visually it was better this way, leaving the main character coloured.

i had also done some styles to test, what it would look like with colour and another with a backgroud with grey scale:



It seems that it is more effective with the grey scale image. I have also been playing the new Alice in Wonderland game on DS. I think the style really works and there is very limited colours.