Some storyboards for Halloween!

Some storyboards that I made a long time ago. These were done for a movie pitch for director, Liz Vice. I had a lot of fun working on this although I feel like I may have over done some of the shading/layering. Took a long time, too! Kind of one of those live and learn things.

I might (MIGHT!!) redo these so that they work out of context but for now, I think I've spent enough time on them. Hope everyone has a happy Halloween! :)

Jungle Gym update.

A project that I'm working on, little by little. There are some problems I want to address before I move on but in the meantime I'll show you guys what I've got.

Work in progress!

My latest work in progress. Will hopefully have something more to show by November.

An excersize in self indulgence...

I'll probably get some crap for this.



I like working this way when coming up with ideas and I promise that I AM going somewhere with these sketches.

Stay Tuned!

Hey Kiddies! It's time for BEANO!!

Did a few of these at work. I'd really like to use this character in a video game. It was fun to at least sketch some ideas on how he attacks enemies or the hazards that he may encounter.

Updated Love Birds progress...

Okay, here's a step by step progress. First I studied the original panel that inspired the last image.

Then, I made a rough (very rough) layout of the image on a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. I tried keeping things within a 6 x 8 in. box (usually the ratio when I normally animate).

After that I tried tying everything down on their own layer (not scanned). When I finished, I started doing a tonal study based on the original storyboard panel.

Once I was finished, I did a tonal layer to each of the tie downs. I also added a black outline to the characters.

Finally, I added color in Photoshop. I used the same color scheme from the last image, since I kinda liked how that looked. I also cropped the image based on the ratio that I applied. Here's the final result.

My thoughts:

Layout: Shouldn't have settled on the first drawing. Should've made sure that the characters (the most important part of the scene) fit within the scene. Too much of them break out and it looks sloppy. Maybe start with the character's general shape and then build the background around them? I should also study tree branches. Even for a cartoony design, these look kinda weird.

Tonal Study: I actually kinda like how this looks. I don't know if it's helping me as much as I'd like it to, though. It does help figure out the composition. Perhaps I should do a color study as well.

B/W Art: This should probably be called grey scale art. :-P Need to practice on the outlining of the characters. The contrast on the greys looked pretty good when before I scanned them. Maybe I need to up the contrast a bit? Maybe I should go straight to colors?

Color: Maybe I should skip the whole Grey Scale/Photoshop color deal and try coloring them as a final clean up instead. I just don't like the result of this. Other people pull it off really well but I think I'm missing something.

I don't want to give up on this image just yet. I'm gonna give a few more tries. After that, I'm going to start working on other aspects of this short, whether or not I perfect this!

Wish me luck. :)