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.

Furtive Squirrel Character Designs – Part 1

Over the next few days I’m going to put up the existing character designs for Ghost Squirrel along with a bit of bio.

ink and digital color illustration of a giant tailed squirrel character

Part one of the character design for the main character of a webcomic project.  This is the standard form of the titular Ghost Squirrel.  Read on for part one of the pitch description:

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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.

Comic Book – Character Design

A large nosed, fuzzy-bathrobe-wearing man with big sideburns and bigger feet.  Also known as the original drawing of the main character who shows up in Circus Insurance.

pencil sketch of large nosed, sideburn and fuzzy house robe wearing man with big feet.

Wire Eaters Base Level Layout

An early pencil layout from the second scene of “Wire Eaters.”  The “final” pencil version includes more detail, but I do like the clean look of the empty room.

pencil sketch layout of a large domed interior, several pathways lead from many doors to a central dais.The art inside the gray overlay is the part you’d see “in camera.”