Illustrators & Storyboards
Project 2 - Developing a Narrative
Storyboards are used as a visual means to describe a sequence of events whether it's in a movie, an animation, a motion graphics or a website. This project will help you create and develop those skills.
We want you to choose your favourite film and illustrate it in its entirety within nine frames.
Your storyboard should be presented showing the key events of the movie you feel are important. You can illustrate these, use photographs, collage, computer graphics, all of which should be your own work, to create the key frames.
While getting the essence of the movie in chronological order is important, we would like you to pay particular attention to the visual appearance. We are not looking for stick men or Google images we want to see well designed, carefully crafted storyboards.
Possible sources of inspiration could be looking at the work of storyboards artists, comic books or graphic novels. An excellent book worth considering is Understanding Comics from Scott McCloud
Your final storyboard and all of your research material should be posted on your DES107 Design Diary by:
Noon Thursday 18th March 2010 in preparation for a crit on Friday 19th March 2010.
Illustration & Illustrators
The ability to sketch your ideas on paper can help communicate your ideas to a wider audience quickly without too much effort. Developing these drawing skills is important as you grow as a designer.
As promised here is the list of illustrators discussed at this mornings lecture. As well as looking at these guys please look beyond the links below and find people who interest you.
Vaughan Oliver unfortunately Oliver no longer has his own site but a Google search will bring up a range of material.
Steff Plaetz is based at the Scrawl Collective
Peepshow a collection of illustrators and motion graphics artists.
Storyboards
The following links provide a few sources for storyboarding, again while looking at these take your research beyond these links and see what else you can find.