The agreed storyboard for Lyon was as follows:
Early film making in sepia, Lumiere train
Sprocketed film stock
Lion gets off train moves right
The 0's part, date 1900, 00000000
Fan-fold lineprinter
Lion walks onto paper turning into ASCII art as he does it
Fanfold paper drops right to bottom of whole frame
Displays different variants of ASCII art
The 01's part, date 1960-1990, 0101010101
Web 2.0 Browser
right-left lion walks off fan-fold leftwards into 2.0 browser
Mock up of ONLY LYON site but with blog tweets etc?
Red lion goes into image with several others
The 2.0's part, date 2000-2009, 2020202020
HTML5 the 2012 bit
Multi-media HTML 5 browser
with integrated video, graphics, mathematics
The 2012 part, date 2011, 201220122012
Various images morph into logo
The animation was reasonably straightforward. The main problems were the opening train sequence, the walking lion, mimicking the ONLYLyon website and
getting pseudo videos to run.