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Prototype vs. Storyboard — What's the Difference?

Prototype vs. Storyboard — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Prototype and Storyboard

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming.

Storyboard

A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualising a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

Prototype

An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard
"The abolitionists were the prototype of modern citizen activism" (Adam Hochschild).

Storyboard

A rough, pictorial outline of the different scenes, camera angles, or perspectives in a movie or interactive sequence, such as a video game.

Prototype

An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
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Storyboard

A series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film or series, especially an animated one.
The storyboard process helps promote brainstorming, highlights missing tasks, and allows the team to incorporate changes prior to traveling too far down a particular path. — By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley, NASA & SAIC [https://web.archive.org/web/20061004060447/http://appel.nasa.gov/ask/issues/13/practices/index.html here]

Prototype

A typical example of a class or category
"He fit the prototype of the artist as social misfit and compulsive contrarian" (Stephen Holden).

Storyboard

Any sequence of drawings or diagrams which illustrate a sequence of events, e.g. in an accident or as a flowsheet for computer programming.

Prototype

To make a prototype of (a product).

Storyboard

To create and arrange storyboard drawings.
Storyboarding allows students to work together as they generate ideas and eliminates the territorial defensiveness that often occurs when new ideas are suggested. — "Using Storyboarding to Determine components of Dellness for University Students" J Am Coll Health. 1996 Jan;44(4):180-3 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8583044&dopt=Abstract Abstract]

Prototype

An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.

Prototype

An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.

Prototype

(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.

Prototype

(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.

Prototype

(motorsport) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Prototype

(transitive) To create a prototype of.

Prototype

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype.

Prototype

A standard or typical example;
He is the prototype of good breeding
He provided America with an image of the good father

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