![]() ![]() If you do see something cutting quickly from scene to scene, it will more often than not be because the sequence is an action sequence. Many times, board artists think they are creating an artistic mood in rapid cutting, but this is not always the case. Very often, I see unnecessary cutting, and all it does is confuse the viewer. When creating your storyboard do not cut to another scene, unless there is a reason to do so. Hopefully, by the end of this little lesson, some things will be etched into your memory for future reference so that one day, you might be able to do a board and actually get paid for it. I will shed light on the “glaring mistakes” most commonly made, the “do’s and don’ts”, and things to watch for when trying to tell your story pictographically. Now, I intend to shed some light on storyboarding for those of you who are still insisting you are storyboard artists, yet have no experience doing them. That being said, many years have passed now since I learned how to do storyboards, and since then, I have done a great many. I look back at it now as a learning experience and chuckle, but then, it was not very funny, as I came dangerously close to losing all credibility, and possibly my job. There were mistakes, and I mean huge glaring mistakes which cost the company I was working for a lot of money to fix. I was given a swift dose of reality though when I saw one of my boards completed through animation and on the editing suite. I was one of these people who believed I was a storyboard artist too, a long time ago. Also, the best storyboard artists are people who have been animating for a number of years because they are more able to assess what will be the best angle to animate, and what will be too hard to animate. One cannot be an effective storyboard artist without learning the rules of storyboarding from people with experience, and by making mistakes themselves and realizing those mistakes. Have they actually seen one of their storyboards put together on an editing suite, complete? I doubt it. Have they ever done it professionally (gotten paid for it) though? Probably not. Or rather, everyone THINKS they are a storyboard artist. Apparently, EVERYONE is a storyboard artist. Have you ever walked through an animation studio and conducted a poll as to who is a storyboard artist, and who is not? I have, and the results were staggering. ![]()
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