#canonthought

[lynxgriffin]

Were they any good books on storyboarding, blogs, or tutorials that you found to be essential, or extremely useful when you started pursuing your career? Terminology, annotation, techniques for conveyance?

Some things I personally own:

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

Paper Dreams - John Canemaker

Disney Archive Series: Story

A really good YouTube series to look through:

Every Frame A Painting

Also pretty good to check out:

The 5 Cs of Cinematography - Joseph Mascelli

Honestly a real good way to study is just to go through good movies (classic ones are a good place to start; they’re usually classic for a reason) and go through a scene shot by shot to see how it’s laid out!

EDIT: Looking at this question again, I feel like I should also add that honestly a LOT of my help came from having a mentor who was willing to take the time to walk me through everything, explain some terminology, give me (sometimes harsh) critique and be honest with me on what I needed to do to improve. SO, I know that’s not an easy thing to just go and check out, but having an actual real experienced human being who was willing to work with me made a world of difference. 

[lynxgriffin]

What kind of education did you need to become a story boarder? Specific skills to learn? Portfolio? I'm an illustrator and it sounds like such an amazing career

You don’t need a specific degree for storyboarding, since the most important thing is your portfolio! However, school is very good for other reasons, namely for meeting people in the industry or if you have difficulty staying on task or trying new things. So it’s at least important to look for a school that’s accredited and has teachers who know the industry well. (And beware of scammy schools...I know there’s lists out there.) 

Important skills to learn: drawing quickly and getting a pose down without much rendering, good composition, general sequential storytelling skills, expressions, poses, perspective, general film language. Helps to look at a wide variety of TV, film and animation! 

Portfolio is definitely the most important: good to have samples of different style of boarding, such as a board for action, one for comedy, etc. Original ideas as well as attempting to reinterpret a script are both good. And just general sequential storytelling and lots of life drawing is good to have, too.

Hope that helps!

[that-damn-owl]

Your sense of humor and strong humanitarian opinions are... *tries to look up a single word that means: attractive, and 'holds their opinion in high regard/respect'* ... Crap, English fails me. Whatever, you're an awesome person. Wanna hang out and sketch passums? :D

Drawing passums is always welcome

[that-damn-owl]

Horror movie date? :D

God that would be awesome uwu

[that-damn-owl]

Your icon is super cute! What is it from?

From an older page in Bittersweet Candy Bowl

[tiberiusboop]

canonthought replied to your post:[[MOR] urhgjflsjklfdsjl god i feel like the...

*hugs and gives a milkshake*

uwu i could use a milkshake and about one more hour of time in my day.

[tiberiusboop]

canonthought replied to your post: assassinabarista answered your question: THIS GUY...

Gonna name him after a guy who got too close tot he sun and fell to his death?… Seems legit :D

haha i like the name! and he doesn't have a story yet, so i can probably make it work :)

[tiberiusboop]

canonthought replied to your photo: me as a pup?? :’)

Sad puppy D:

pretty typical uwu i'll draw him smiling soon!!