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thirdchildart:

Start Here!

  http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/09/storyboarding-tips-dreamworks

http://karenjlloyd.com/blog/

• Thumbnails first—plan your scene before you draw. Study how other films similar to your story use camera angles and set ups. Take a movie, pause it every time the view changes and draw one of these simple sketches.
• Let your drawings be MESSY. It’s ok if they don’t look perfect as long as they are clear and readable. It’s the animators job to hit perfection—story artists just point the way. 
• Have other people ‘read’ your boards. Without adding in dialogue, give the pictures to someone and see if they can describe what’s going on in the scene.
• Be ok with throwing out drawings, starting over, or making changes. Story artists are the rough draft of the movie so the territory comes with a bunch of editing.  There are 150+ boards that got thrown away in the making of Defying Gravity–that’s more boards than were in the ENTIRE Hamilton sequence.
• Send me art anytime! hair.of.gondor@gmail.com I would love to give feedback!