Brenda Chapman Storyboard Assignment

So a few weeks ago we had classes with Brenda Chapman, which was pretty awesome, but even more awesome was doing the storyboard assignment she gave us and having her look at it, make notes and suggestions and even scribble over some of it. 

From the assignment:

"Please storyboard a scene using the 11 lines of dialogue you have been given. The character names are purposefully ambiguous so that you may choose the sex of your characters… or not.
Other than the dialogue, there are no limitations. You are your own director."

I ended up doing something along the lines of "Top Gun with wizards". Storyboard (revised according to Brenda's notes) after the jump:

Summer Filler

I'm very mindful that as I cram what remains of the holidays with Tomb Raider and Pokémon, all the while there's a blog to be updated. The answer? Yet more old stuff pulled from my college application portfolio. What follows is a storyboard version of a "pitch" for a web-based cartoon partly-based on what my co-workers and I went through when our store went into administration in 2008.

The main characters would have been two kids and an ancient man.

I didn't realise it at the time, but it appears I accidentally ripped off Gary Baseman somewhat. Oh well. (Click 'Read more' for storyboard)

John Canemaker Homework!

Character designs, colour story sketches and storyboard panels done for some of John Canemaker's classes in IADT last November...

These were part of John's week of storyboarding lectures/classes in which students were asked to develop one of a few short stories - this was based on The Moth and the Star by James Thurber.