I’m still working on laying in tone on this storyboard assignment. Â If you read the boards from yesterday, you can continue the story here. Â In this installment, things kind of start going south for our protagonist.
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Back to some class assignments: I’m now laying in some tone on some of the storyboard sketches you’ve seen earlier. Â Here’s how the story begins.
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Yet another frame from this storyboard assignment. Â Sorry, but there are about 50 of these I have to do this week, and I haven’t had much time for other sketches. Â Anyway, in the story flow, this one shortly follows Sketch #338. Â Our drunk thug suddenly shoves the main character into the darkened motel room, where he promptly trips over the bullet-riddled body of the retired cop. Â Nice people doing nice things.
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Well, the weekend can’t last forever. Â Back to the storyboard assignments. Â This is another excerpt from the crime story from Sketches 337, 338 and 339. Â (Early in the story, the family man runs into the drunk in the bar, and the latter starts to walk away in the middle of the conversation.)
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More work for class. Â Leaving aside the crime story, we return to the (admittedly no less bloody) story of Siegfried and the dragon. Â That whole assignment requires three illustrations, for before, during and after the main action of the dragon-slaying. Â So while Sketch #333 was a concept for the “before” phase, this is one quick thumbnail for the “during” part. Â Again, fantasy illustration and gut-slashing are not really particular strengths or interests of mine — but an assignment is an assignment.
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Still working on the storyboard for class. Â After yesterday’s sketch, we skip ahead in the story, conveniently glossing over the contents of the motel room.
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One of many storyboard frames from the screenplay I mentioned yesterday. Â Here, Charlie opens the door to a cheap motel room. Â I sure hope there’s no grisly discovery inside…
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Just a couple of quick character ideas for a class project.  We’re storyboarding a section of a screenplay that calls for the following: Bill, the retired cop and (spoiler alert!) dead body; Charlie, the thirtysomething family man; and Daryl, the heavyset local drunk/thug-for-hire.  It’s sure to be an upbeat, family-friendly romp.
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So here’s the full story behind yesterday’s sketch. Â The assignment was to create a storyboard of about 15 frames to tell the story of my trip from home to school. Â The instructor said that if it wasn’t a particularly dramatic story, we were free to embellish a little. Â That was all the permission I needed.
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Another little project for class: this is the final frame of a little storyboard I’m working on. Â More on this tomorrow!
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