Category Archives: Animation

Something Different – Early Practice in Animation Storyboarding

Over the next several days I’m posting 3 scenes from an animated movie I storyboarded a few years ago.  It was a movie of my own creation, one I started to write and board for fun and practice.  I won’t say all my shot and direction choices are entirely successful (it was my first attempt at making a sustained narrative after all) but there is still plenty of worth here.

I am just posting the images.  Normally these would be accompanied by character dialogue, camera, and script notes.

Here goes: 

Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows suspended bucket shitting a car's headlight.Storyboard sequence from an animated film. Sequence shows surprised man looking up from a sheet of paper.

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.

 

Pencil Layouts of A Comic Panel

Featuring a perspective aerial view of an owl walking through a leafy cityscape.  Just a teaser of a comic book project I’m working on.

perspective pencil layout of a comic panel

Canine Odontology

Rough storyboard panel: camera view from dog's mouth, shoe on pedal Rough storyboard panel: camera view from dog's mouth, woman walking dogRough storyboard panel: camera view from dog's mouth, mailman

Three rough storyboard panels from inside a dog’s mouth (for an animated opening to a reality TV show currently in development).  Don’t get to draw that angle nearly enough!

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!