Practice in Animation Storyboards – The Last Scene 04

Getting to the end here.  Start of an unfinished third scene.  I might just add these images to the existing scene two page here.

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows man walking into abstract shot.  There's lots of exposed wire and a lightbulb in shot.Lighting effects!  So that’s it.  Last of the BREAK PROGRESS practice storyboards.  Next time I’ll start posting boards from an animated short about robots and evil vine plants.  Huzzah.

Practice in Animation Storyboards – The Last Scene 02

Getting to the end here.  Start of an unfinished third scene.  I might just add these images to the existing scene two page here.

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows man stepping away grom gin still and letting go a light bulb.Love that last shot.  Got the movement down pretty well I think!  (not sure what the shot adds from a narrative perspective though…)

Practice in Animation Storyboards – The Next Scene 13

AKA: The Layout Special

Scene one is here and scene two now has a home here.

I have a confession to make.  When I do “camera moves” for my storyboards, I skip a step and go straight to workbook — is that phrase in use anymore? — or even to some sort of preliminary layout stage.

I used to (and sometime still do) tell people I’m a storyboard artist, but I’m much more interested in how every stage of production fits together to create the final whole; divisions between storyboards, layout, or even editorial can be a bit fluid with that mindset.

A workbook or layout of a shot from a self-directed animated feature project.  Digital drawing feature a truck-out, pan up camera move showing a woman opening a door and the crazy gin-still setup she has on the second floor.Only after drawing something like this workbook/layout/whatever would I break it down into sequential panels to imply camera moves (in this case a combination truck-out and pan up.)

I never got around to breaking this one down.  Maybe I recognized the purpose of the exercise had come to a close?

Gotta Love Robots

Pencil sketch of robot character design.  Robot kneeling and holding small rodent creature. Pencil sketch of robot character design.   Robot shown walking. Pencil sketch of robot character design.  Early draft, round face.Opening up the vault for this one.   Character designs of main character from an animated short I was working on.  The final robot looked a bit different, but I do like these early examples.

 

Twilight Scene Goodness

No.  Not that twilight.

A color version of the Ink Spirit from Ghost Squirrel.  I think the color scheme could be described as twilight meets lava volcano.  If “lava volcano” isn’t a paint swatch name, I will be very disappointed.

Ink and digital color illustration of fantasy creature in mountain landscape at twilight.

A Villain Guppy – Pencil Sketches

Unsorted and unedited ideas for a female fish character (and some other random doodle bull guy who got in there).  Her name is Barbed Guppy.

Idol in the Woods

Teaser image for an upcoming project (either animation or comic).  The illustration features a carved wood sculpture of a local woods’ guardian. 

pen and ink illustration with digital color showing a nighttime scene of a creepy wood idol on a stump in the woodsI don’t think I’ve ever done a nighttime scene before – working with a dark color scheme is fun!