Animatic - Less Travelled

Here's the animatic for the short animation I've been working over the past few weeks. In my group crit a few suggestions were made to me. I'm probably going to make the following changes:

• I'm going to remove the quote. It was deemed to b unnecessary by both myself and my others.
• The sign will stand out more to make sure the viewer knows he is continuously returning to the same point
• In the shot where the camera is panning along with him walking I'm going to include something for him to pass that isn't pillars. Something that will stand out and tell the viewer he keeps passing that same point.
• Time passing (A year) shown by seasons or just day and night. (Side note: no one picked up on that his robes fit him more comfortably by the end)
• Add a glint to the coin or something a kin to that to let the viewer know it's a coin.
• Cut to a close up of the son's face when he's torn about which direction to go.
• In the end frame, instead of fading out the son and fading in the title I'm just going to fade in the title and leave the 2 side by side. 

Over all happy with the reaction my animatic got. People got different readings from it which I was delighted about to say the least. 

Right now I'm deciding on how I'm going to create this animation. I think the process for making the backdrops will be something like: Make pillars from paper, arrange them i the way I need, trace over them in Illustrator, place a charcoal/ chalk texture over that and go over that in hues of blue in Photoshop. Going to try and simplify this process though.