For Next Week!

I know that you may have thought I came done on you all a little strong today but I firm think that there's a problem with presentation quality in the class. As I have said numerous times, if you don't have a the very least a successful sample of the storyboard assignments that you have done thus far in your portfolio then we all fail.

To help you in achieving this I am giving you all one more week on refining one of the projects as a portfolio piece. The following is a list of guidelines to assist you in this:

For next week:
1. Process Drawings:
Up-to-date thumbnails and pose sketches relating to the project refinement.
2. Sample 15 - 20 Shots of Action:
Choose a sample of the action of the piece and examine the continuity of the shots. Are there too many cuts, needless shot transition that doesn't drive the story or characters. Use this opportunity to examine this and then replace needless cuts with longer shots and more action. You'll be amazed at how well this works.

Remember that I am not asking for frames. We will explore the difference between shots and frames in depth from here on in. If your piece already has a limited number of shots or cuts then choose a relevant part of the action and refine 30 - 40 frames of a set piece in portfolio quality.

Optional and Additional Work:
Dialogue Sample: Only if you have chosen to use dialogue as part of the project. Typed up and incorporated into the bottom tag of the storyboards or separate document with numbered links to frames.

Hope this helps you to get this project ready for portfolio.

I'll be checking in on the blog regularly!
Shaun

Apologies and Midterm...

Hey gang, first off apologies for the abrupt ending to today's class. The call with Lucasfilm is very important to the survival and growth of the Storyboard track. I just made the conference call though. Had Marin been on time i would have missed the start - very embarrassing.

The call went well and I spoke to the Head of Outreach and the Director of Clone Wars Dave Filioni and we're on course for getting the creative team out to AAU to present their preproduction and animation work on the show possibly by the end of the semester, more likely in January. As far as a 3D Story/ Previz class goes, it's very early days but we're hopeful it will happen for next year. Filioni did say that there were a couple of traditional storyboarders who retrained in the new proprietary (and very secretive) 3D Story software and that they've already refined some of the more advanced camera functions so that the animators can use the exact camera date from the previz. He reiterated that NO traditional storyboards were used in production. All very clever. And a little scary.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for letting me out early to take part in this. It was extremely beneficial even in the short term. That said I'd like to get the appointment times together as soon as possible so please email me - sfeatherstone@academyart.edu - your free schedules for Week 10 as soon as possible.

All the best
Shaun

Just a few of my Fish n Chumps boards.

my first action themed storyboard. I will also have a finished copy of this by this wednesday for class.

These were my quick idea for cat and frog. I need to edit and redo a lot of things.

I changed the idea I had for my ending. Instead of getting rid of Mr Pod with a Frog decoy, I've decided to have Sam get over his fear of falling into the water and save his friend with an oar.

The China Marker Experiment

Best wishes, David

Look at me, I'm posting!

I was going to scan these, but for some reason it wasn't working. So I took pictures of them instead.

King of Blog has Spoken!...

You're in guys! Please make sure that you update the blog with your latest version of the P & P assignment. I'll be here offering as much critique as my schedule allows. Remember I want you to simply take this final version and put it straight into your portfolio.

All the best
Shaun