BSA206 Story and rough thumbnails

A man is walking down a road nonchalantly. He steps in a puddle/pothole. Suddenly, he drops into it and lands in a florescent green, rolling meadow. Literally. The hills that he is standing on are moving like ocean waves. The man falls because he can't stand. When he hits the ground he becomes a cartoon of himself. The mountains continue to roll around him and eyes on stalks begin to grow out of the earth. The eye-plants sway with the hills and they all focus in on the man. The man looks at them in terror before trying to crawl away but as he does the camera focuses on a close up of the man's own eyes which have grown little hands and are trying to escape his head. The camera pulls out quickly and the cartoon man is now floating in space. He is spinning slowly through the atmosphere, he loses his cartoon-ness and his escaping eyes return to his head. Suddenly there is a hissing sound like air escaping a pressurized can. The man flies backwards really fast before slamming against a wall/the ground, back in the real world. He is shocked and confused and shakes his head wondering what just happened.

Here are some very rough thumbnails;

I need to re-do the storyboards better, adding in timings and more direction, but now I have a basic storyline.

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