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Cranking out storyboards

Storyboards are usually done under adverse conditions like a terrible deadline. An artist develops a reputation for meeting deadlines as well as interpreting the script in an interesting way. Often, because of time restraints, the renderings must be done fast and loose. These examples are part of a series that I did for Y & R in Irvine, California. I had to do 65 frames over a weekend.


One of the problems with this assignment was that I had to find specific reference for many of the frames which takes up a good deal of time.


A close up of the statues at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. I had no time to spend on these frames, you can see how loosely they are rendered.


The eagles on top of the Chrysler building.


This assignment was for an automotive client, Lincoln Mercury and also had a lot of automobiles in it to render which complicated things even more. In my next post I'll show a few of those frames. I don't recall the Art Director's name, but he was very good to work with.

Tough storyboard assignments

Some of the toughest and most demanding storyboard assignments one can work on are the automotive ones. Even though boards are quickly rendered because of deadline considerations, the product must be done fairly accurate. Often the ad agency does not provide photos of the cars, complicating things further because you must find reference material which takes away from your rendering time. The Art director may also want to see pencil sketches before you start rendering the frames.


An example of one of my rough sketches which I place under a sheet of layout paper and trace for the final rendering.


One of many storyboards done for Subaru while I lived in New York. My many years of working in Detroit was a great help for me when doing automotive storyboards. I don't recall the ad agency or Art Director, but suddenly one day they closed shop and I lost a good client. Anything can happen in the ad biz.

Happy Thanksgiving Day !!!

Living with deadlines

Tough deadlines are a way of life for the storyboard artist. A lot of the time my assignments wouldn't come in until Friday with the usual Monday AM deadline. I would have the whole week to pursue my fine art interests. Other times I would work all week and have the weekends free. All this must sound very familiar to all of you storyboarders out there. With the crazy schedules in this field you must work well under great pressure and be relentless in your other pursuits. here are a few more examples of my black and white storyboard frames, part of series done for Doner in Southfield, Michigan.














On many occasions you would also have a batch of ad comps to do in addition to the storyboards. Sometimes you wondered how you ever made the deadlines, I'm sure the Art Directors wondered also.

The battle against time

Storyboard artists know this battle well, it is a battle that must be won every tine we get an assignment. If you have thirty frames to render and can just shave two minutes off of each rendering, you've gained a full hour! Soon the sun will rise and the deadline is fast approaching. One time saver I've resorted to is to do black and white frames instead of full color. Below are a few such frames that I did for Doner in Southfield, Michigan.
















I don't recall the Art Director on this assignment. When they had a big campaign to produce Doner would call me in to work on premises for a week or two and I would be working with several Art Directors and writers. In Europe, when I worked in Paris, at various times Lintas sent me to Vienna to work on ad and storyboard campaigns. They also sent me to Madrid, Jakarta and Singapore to teach their staff how to render storyboards. The client also sent along my wife, Jeanne, so we had a semi vacation which included a week in Bali as well. There are not many clients around like that.

Prague and Rio in one night

Who but a storyboard artist can visit Prague and Rio in one night ? This was the usual rush overnight assignment and in spite of the deadline was a fun project to do. I had to find very specific reference material which sometimes can be a real problem, especially if you have a tight deadline. Before I stopped doing storyboards in 2004, every assignment I received for the last year had an overnight deadline.



I can't remember if this is actually Prague or not, but in this frame I had to depict a specific area in a specific European city.


usually I could count on finding reference like this in my large collection of National Geographic magazines or on the internet


Reference material is very important, you can't just make up stuff like this.




The next few frames were of Rio de Janeiro


The happy folks must have been celebrating New Years Eve.




All these frames were rendered with markers on high quality layout paper and delivered over the internet.

Comprehensive ad illustrations

Often when doing a storyboard campaign there are also a group of ad comps to render. The two renderings below were done for a Chicago ad agency, Crammer Krasselt, they were one of my best clients for a number of years.



These ad comps are done much larger than storyboard frames and take quite a bit longer to plan and render. If time permitted I would frequently do two versions of an ad if I had different thoughts on the subject. Sometimes this was done at the early pencil sketch stage.



The renderings below were part of a series of ads, I did two versions of this airport scene. This was done for a New York ad agency, I can't remember which one or who the Art Director was.




I enjoyed creating dramatic rendering and I would often get assignments from Art Directors that wanted an unusual approach.

Craig Smith Gallery invitational party

Last Saturday Craig had another one of his great invitational dinner parties, these events are always great fun, The artists and guests mingle and chat and the food is always first class.


Craig was too busy to pose for me, so I took a couple of photos of him doing some last minute things, changing burnt out light bulbs.


Some of the guests enjoying their meal. That's Craig standing by a Dale Threlkeld painting. If you haven't seen his paintings, drop by the gallery, you'll enjoy his wonderful work. Craig displays a lot of great work, his gallery has 4000 square feet of space. Some of the other artists exhibited are Scott Covert, Stephen Moss, Syvia Ziontz and Judy Mullen.


Here's Gloria, glamorous as usual, standing next to my new painting MUSE.


Yesterday Gloria and I had lunch at Soe Cafe in Sawyer, Michigan, a great local restaurant.


They have one of my new paintings on display, this one is titled RECLINING NUDE.