Storyboards

 

Film, Television, Games and Commercials are all visual mediums that story artists have made huge but silent contributions to.  Animation simply wouldn't exist without them.  Though never the final product, the story artists work ripples through the rest of the creative process.    
Story artists are the first artist to in the process (often even before a writer is involved) in formulating the key visual language, tone, narrative, design, cinematography, caricature, comedy, drama and the worlds their characters inhabit. The storyboards are the visual foundation blocks on which everything else is built.     
Great story artists take the Directors vision and bring to the table an enormous knowledge of  filmcraft and distill into drawings the story visually. Often storyboards are a journey of discovery to find out what a Director wants or sometimes more importantly what he doesn't want.                 
Most of the coolest visuals you've ever seen exist because an story artist drew them onto a little rectangular box and the director said "Great! I love it!"

SMALLFOOT

Here's the Trailer to the upcoming movie Smallfoot that I storyboarded.

Storks

Here's some sequences I boarded for the upcoming WB movie Storks

storks seq

Storks boards v final

RANGO

Huzzah!!! Congratulations to all involved. I had such a great time working on it.

Gore's Oscar thank you

Gore is an amazing Director and an all round good guy...thanks for the shout out! 

Annies

I was honored today to be nominated for an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding on a Feature Production for my work on Rango.

Picture in Picture Storyboards

Here are some of the sequences I boarded for the film 'Rango" I think ILM knocked it out of the park with the execution.

AIN'T IT COOL had this to say about this sequence I boarded
This becomes apparent after Verbinski screens an early-third-act sequence which finds Rango at the end of his tether, ready to end it all by forlornly walking across a perilously busy highway. There's ample opportunity to die, but Rango somehow avoids every tire that whizzes his way. When he reaches the other side of the road, he collapses into the desert dust. Perhaps now he'll perish of dehydration. But then, in a moment of peculiar beauty, he's carried off by a legion of just-awakened pill bugs. I don't mean to get too worked up over a single out-of-context sequence, but there's a spiritual quality to this that's worthy of Pixar at its best. It's a lovely moment of natural rebirth.