STORYBOARDING EXAMPLES OVER THE YEARS
Boarding on Adventure Time
My career has predominantly been storyboarding for television. My focus within the art of storyboarding has shifted over the years.
Adventure Time (the original series) was my first experience storyboarding. I’m still very proud of these boards but it’s notable that these predate Storyboard Pro. Drawn in Photoshop, these boards were VERY tight and illustrative. Back then I was essentially treating storyboarding like making comics.
The storyboard below (“Graybles 1000+” from 2015) is a solo-drawn board based on an outline that I had pitched. The opportunity to make this is still a career highlight for me.
Below is the end of the episode of the Adventure Time episode “Three Buckets”, I believe these are thumbnails. Like the other Adventure Time boards here these are done in Photoshop.
The board below is ULTRA TIGHT. It’s also done in photoshop and is the special intro to the finale of Adventure Time. I’m very proud of this.
Boarding at Disney TV
After my time at Cartoon Network I storyboarded for Disney Television Animation on Amphibia and Big City Greens. There I used Storyboard Pro for the first time and consciously changed the way I boarded:
I started working much more loosely, more gestural
while focusing more on movement, acting, and comedy.
Below is part of the Amphibia episode “Plantar’s Last Stand”, drawn around 2018.
Below are sections from two Big City Greens boards: “Old Tilly” and “Heat Beaters”, both boarded in 2019.
Directing
The last few years I’ve been primarily directing and my storyboarding has changed again. The focus became laughs, movement, and rhythm.
The reel below is some animatic excerpts from Disney’s Stugo, all timing and direction by me, all storyboards by me unless otherwise indicated.