What story boards look like

Edit: Because people were asking, this was done in photoshop. When We pitch, we don't make a video file like this. normally we would just click through them on the computer and make the noises and voices ourselves for the pitch.

Here is a small sample I did for my class to show what story boards look like. The editor would take these and time them out and add sound. Here I just have them set to play through with no particular timing.

explore

part of the fun of being an artist is just shutting off your brain and exploring things. Also, being inspired by things. don't worry about composition, structure, storytelling, or anything. Just play and have fun. That is how I came up with this style. I was just playing with brushes and it turned into something. You never know what you might be able to use later by just playing around.

Rules are fun to break

When I say "don't do this", or "do this", I should probably say "don't do this on accident". But, if you do it on purpose, that's another story. you can pretty much do anything you want if you do it on purpose. Here I have lots of tangents and a collar that breaks the rule I just gave.

shirt collars

You end up drawing a lot of shirt collars in storyboards. Here is something I found helpful.

shape design never goes away

No matter how "realistic" or cartoony you draw you always design the shapes. Here is how to look at straight vs curve.


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drawing an anime character

I would do this for a few days before I felt comfortable with the character. Then, I would try to leave the character "rougher" I would try to get pretty close to the finish drawing in just 1 or 2 stages. I like more spontaneous drawings, but some times you have to flip it back and forth and be able to draw the character very clean in order to get the spontaneous drawings to look nice.

more perspective tricks

edit: Tip from Stone: