Storyboarding Part One

by on May.01, 2012, under Classwork, Concept Art, Storyboard, Studio, Thesis

I’ve always been curious about storyboarding. It was definitely something that wasn’t covered in my undergrad courses, and I had no idea what they looked like or how they worked. Well no more! I’m in a storyboarding class, and have been learning quite a lot about the film industry, aspect ratios, camera angles and framing… and acting, of all things. It’s amazing how much these things are all tied together.

Some notes from my Storyboarding class about camera movements.

Some notes from my Storyboarding class about camera movements.

My first assignment ever was based on the following prompt: two characters (one anxious and one coy) in a mystery genre story must be escaping from the bowels of the Earth. My prompt’s details were all drawn from a hat, so each student’s story was completely different. For example, another student had an angry and a sad character waiting for grandchildren at a sporting event. My interpretation of my prompts was two cats (one a detective and one that was weird and twitchy) were trying to escape from a sewer. It was completely random. What then further pushed our creativity was that ee had to use a specific script, and keep it between 6 and 9 panels.

Notes about aspect radios from my storyboarding class

Notes about aspect radios from my storyboarding class

As you can imagine, this produced a lot of interesting results. Below is my attempt, with the thumbnails first and the boards second. I still had quite a lot to learn at this point– and did I EVER learn! Storyboarding involves drawing the same thing about a million times. Also, I apologize if you can’t read my handwriting. It’s the curse of being an artist.

To be continued in Part 2!


2 Comments for this entry

  • JosieMar
    May 11th, 2012 on 10:15 am

    I love that you keep us posted on your progress. I agree that storyboarding is fascinating and that you are doing so well. Is this being created digitally? In case I missed that.

    Your blog is an inspiration

    From a wannabe better artist

  • Joie
    May 11th, 2012 on 10:59 am

    The storyboards I’ve posted so far have been done all in pencil and physical sheets of paper. The ones I will be posting later were drawn in pencil, but scanned and digitally placed on the template, and still yet later there will be ones that were drawn entirely digitally for the sake of speed. I’ll make sure to note that from now on! :)

    And thank you! I’m glad you find my stuff to be inspiring. I’m always glad to think I’ve helped someone in some way– I’ve received so much help in my art career so far that I would love to pay it back to others in need. Do you have a website or a blog?

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