Minor Project - The Story's Outline

I've settled on an Outline I'm happy with, I felt it delivered the message from concept.

Concept
Better Together/Teamwork is Key
Premise
Two Squirrels fight for an Acorn at a Park
Outline

• Both Squirrels fight for acorn.
• Acorn Falls from Tree into the hands of a guy sleeping on a park bench
• Little squirrel attempts to collect acorn for himself and fails
• Big Squirrel attempt the same thing and fails
• They decide to work together
• Working together, they manage to separate man and acorn.
• [END] With Acorn Free, Squirrels look to commence fighting again.
• [CONT'D][...ALT END] It gets windy, and acorn falls in drain
• [...ALT END] Squirrels retract weapons, and look to work together

I put in an "alternate ending" because I am still undecided with ending, they could end where they both started, or continue and end with the teamwork.

Moving Forward
I'm moving forward to draft out a Storyboard and Animatic.

In terms of style, I've been thinking of having minimal environment elements, or just suggesting the park with sounds or objects like leaves blowing or a ball bouncing, In my head I imagine one tree and a Park bench.

Batman-Superman. This panel shows what I have in mind in terms of staging the animation

The characters on my animation don't say anything so I started using words in certain parts of my storyboard, this would be another element I would be experimenting with in the animation to bring out the characters at certain moments.