Christmas Break

Hi everyone. I hope you had a great Christmas. Sorry for not getting back, I have been super busy with the holidays. I had an 1 on 1 with my mentor and we talked about what my next steps should be.

We had a new project where we got to determine the story of our next storyboard project. The premise is someone is coming home to a surprise party. You must have at least 6 characters and the rest is up to you. This assignment is to help work on staging.

Instead of working on that idea, (right now anyways), we decided it would be best to go back to the other project I worked on for the thumbnails and work on fixing some of the shots, and take them a step further. I have been working on these and on another storyboard from an old idea I had a while back. I realized my portfolio doesn't have that much comedy in it so I wanted to fix that.

I have also been working on coloring the D&D illustration I did for Inktober. You can check it out my progress on my Instagram along with some of the boards I have been working on. Hope you stop by again next week. Board On!!!

Holiday Card and Mentor Group Meeting

Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a great week. I got to have a group meeting for my mentorship, I worked on a holiday card for my full time job, and I got work on a gray scale version of my Inktober illustration.

My group meeting, we got to review some my talented “classmates’” (I am not sure what to call the other people in the same mentorship I am in lol) storyboards. I learned a lot during the review, such as importance of shot variation. I tend you reuse similar shots, with the idea of making it easier for smaller productions to tell their stories. I see that’s not the best way to proceed or think when working on boards. This is something I am going to keep in mind.

Every year my IT job contracts me to create a Holiday card. Every year I pitch an idea of a snow man melting in the server room trying to manually turn on the AC to keep from melting and the server room getting too hot. To me it is the funniest thing and works because our motto is “Whatever It Takes”. We always work our hardest and go above and beyond our customers. This year I finally got it ok’d to be this year’s holiday card. Check out my Instagram page to see how it turned out.

My Inktober illustration had all the prompts this year and I combined them in to one super illustration. Keep an eye on my Instagram page to see how it turned out. Hope you stop by again next week. Board On!!!