smith family secret presentation boards

Posted on July 30, 2012

A couple months ago, my friend Alison asked me to illustrate these awesome books she’s written, about a boy who discovers he has the ability to make his drawings come to life. They are wonderfully written elementary-level stories and I know she’s going to have a lot of success with them.

Since I haven’t had a ton of free time to work on the illustrations, I decided to incorporate the story into my last assignments for storyboarding. Here are some early versions of the presentation boards -colored versions & production boards to come.

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batman boards

Posted on July 16, 2012

This storyboarding sequence spanned two modules – we were given a script for “Batman: The Animated Series” to interpret through storyboards. These are more of a progressive step-by-step production board as opposed to the presentation boards we did for the trunk monkey assignment.

It was a good exercise to try to work in the style of a show, except that the school provided a very small amount of reference material – I had to find more online and I think some of what I used may have been from a different series. I think the point gets across anyway – enjoy!

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trunk monkey in color

Posted on July 9, 2012

Here we are – trunk monkey, color edition. The consensus from my instructor & classmates was that the colors were a bit too bright, but hey, I was restraining myself. It took a lot of self control to keep from going brighter.

Note the addition of keys in the guy’s hand in the first panel too.

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trunk monkey storyboards

Posted on July 2, 2012

Our most recent assignment for storyboarding is to do a new take on the “trunk monkey” advertising campaign (here’s a link to the real commercials that aired around 2006). We had to create just 4 cleaned-up presentation boards to get our concept across – these are meant to be a summary of the concept for a pitch rather than move-by-move production boards. I went with designated-driver trunk monkey: