Woohoo! I Got Published!!

saw my previous post about the storyboarding assignment? here.
Tomato with a bad case of hoebris, right? :)

So back in late 2010, after everything was handed-in, our sotryboarding instructor Nancy Beiman took me to the side to ask me an amazing thing - would i MIND her using some of my boards in her upcoming book on storyboarding, PREPARE TO BOARD, second edition?? Gee, WOULD I ??

The edition was scheduled for release in 2012 Fall - and sure enough, in November a delivery man knocks on my door with the edition... and blows my mind!

this is seriously one of the aweosmest things that ever happened to me!!
i'd like to give a HUGE THANKS to Nancy Beiman for her invaluable guidance, teaching and this amazing opportunity.
Also, i couldn't have done it without the creative, supportive environment of wonderful classmates - you guys rock :)

Story Time 2.0

OK, this is a long one but bear with me please, it has a point!

A couple of years ago i posted the results of a 2nd year storyboarding assignment - here.

Our teacher, the one and only Nancy Beiman, gave us nursery rhymes to set a basic idea, based on which we were supposed to come up with an original story.

When i came back for second year again (fall 2010), we got a similar assignment, with the source material changed - the rhyme i chose to develop goes like this:

"I wanna be the leader, I wanna be the leader,

Can I be the leader? Can I?

I can? Promise? Promise?

Yippe, I'm the leader, I'm the leader!

OK what shall we do?

first we sketched up various initial ideas:

first i thought of the basics: politics, jungle, boy scouts, and lemmings...

then, going to get groceries, i thought of vegetables who compete to be selected !

the tomato is the vainest, but she doesn't know that being picked out means DEATH!

The idea we like most is developed into Beat Boards (4 major story points):

and a character line-up is made to show their proportions:

then we go on to full story boards, which were revised, finalized [characters were changed, the story became more focused and more Dante-esque :) ] - and then pitched:

Finally, the whole thing is edited together in Premier to make a Leica reel accompanied by music (turn up the volume :))

hope you enjoyed ! any comments are welcome :)

Story Time 1.0

Retrospective update time!

As some of you may know, i started second year of animation back in fall 2009, but shortly after had to take time off unfortunately. i got to do pretty much only one assignment per class.
It was far from ideal, but I'm back and doing it again, full throttle!

Now with that year behind me, i feel free to update whatever decent work i had done back then.
So today i'll share the final boards for the Nursery Rhyme assignment from Storyboarding class.
At the beginning of school we are assigned two nursery rhymes and start developing them into short stories with original characters. We go to full boards with one rhyme, and this is the result:

(Excerpt from original rhyme by Heinrich Hoffman):
Where is Philip, where is he?
Fairly covered up you see!
Cloth and all are lying on him;
He has pulled down all upon him.
What a terrible to-do!
Dishes, glasses, snapped in two!
Here a knife, and there a fork!
Philip, this is cruel work.
Table all so bare, and ah!
Poor Papa, and poor Mamma
Look quite cross, and wonder how
They shall have their dinner now.












Starting out with beat boards (major story points illustrated on few cards), it was a bit different, since the portrait was just in the background and not a main driving force of the story.
With thanks to helpful input from Nancy Beiman, our teacher, and some friends, a lot changed between the original and final, but that's what i like about story-telling/boarding :)

Hope you enjoyed!