Animation Storyboard

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1. Animation opens with video snow.	2. Bad video signal.	3. Bad video signal clears up, and we see darkness speckled with glowing white objects. Illegible text appears across the bottom of the screen:	4. Camera starts to move through the space, then stops and seems to focus on one glowing object. Illegible text appears across the bottom of the screen:
5. A non-human hand enters frame. As the index finger nears the object, the object gravitates towards it. The hand pulls the object down a little then "releases" it. The object floats upwards. Text across the bottom of the screen:	6. The camera continues on through the space. A temple comes into view. Text across bottom of screen:	7. Camera approaches temple & focuses in on the god-face disk that hovers spinning over the pedestal in front of the temple entrance. Text across bottom of screen:	8. Begin transition: "circle wipe" to black. Text across bottom of screen:
9. transition...	10. transition...	11. transition...	12. "Flux" animation is shown here
13. After animation fades to black, "circle wipe" back to the spinning disk. Text on screen:	14. transition...	15. transition...	16. transition...
17. Camera pulls back to reveal that it now faces the temple entrance. Text:	18. Camera moves into temple and stops at about the middle. We see 3 mountain ranges on the right, three frames of the sand painting animation on the left, and a large image of the sun-god thingy in front of the camera.	19. Camera faces center mountain range.	20. The images "fritz," like a video signal being interrupted. Click here to see "fritzed" frames.
21. After the interference clears up, we see lines of numbers and strange symbols that match the ones that have been appearing at the bottom of the screen.	22. The image "fritzes" again. Click here to see "fritzed" frames.	23. The mountain ranges reappear.	24. Camera faces the sand paintings.
25. The images fritz. Click here to see "fritzed" frames.	26. A brief snippet of the sand painting animation is played.	27. The video fritzes. Click here to see "fritzed" frames.	28. The still images reappear.
29. Camera faces god-thingy. The alien hand reaches out to touch the image, and as it does so, we hear strange sounds. The sounds change as the hand moves across the image. Text:	30. The hand withdraws, the sounds cease, and the camera moves into the image.	31. A few frames of black follow the impact of the camera with the god-thingy.	32. Camera emerges on the other side of the god image. We see nothing but the glowing objects.
33. The camera sweeps back around to face the area it just left. Instead of the temple, we see a huge wall of computer monitors, each of which has numbers and strange symbols scrolling by.	34. Camera focuses in on one monitor. Numbers and symbols continue to scroll by.	35. The alien hand enters the frame. As it touches the monitor, focus is pulled forward and we see the alien entity reflected in the glass. It blinks once or twice.	36. (i only got as far as frame 35)