BIG HERO 6 _ Scene study part 2

 Continuing the scene :

If you need a 2-shot, it's always efficient to cut to the character who is already in place in a single shot, and then have the other character walk in.

Below we cut to a reverse, Hiro will need to walk to a different location so we need to establish where he is (that's why we have a shot showing everybody ), we then track with the character until he is screen right of the group and close to where we need him to be for a story beat.

Frame Study : Rough to clean

 A LITTLE HOW TO, OR HOW I DO MY STUDIES:

1. First I draw the perspective grid, then I draw the BG, THEN I drew my characters shapes/gestures in red:

2: Now I draw the characters over it:

3: Fill the characters with white to stand out clearly from the BG:

ANOTHER ONE:

1) Look at how clear these simple stick figures are. 

2) We could just have 40% opacity on the BG and the characters 100%, it's clear enough I think.

3) But I think a grey tone and white fill for the characters is even clearer?

BIG HERO 6 - SCENE STUDY

 I think if you only do one exercise as a storyboard artist. It should be to draw boards from scenes of films you like. You are studying staging, framing, cutting, camera moves, but you are also drawing storyboards. poses, acting. It's a full and tasty meal :)

 

SWALLOWED STAR - ACTION SEQUENCE

Again some old stuff from the days at AXIS. 

This was a short action sequence but really fun to do. Something I had learn, was that not every board or sequence needs to be the best sequence ever. You need to be able to pull back, so that the important battles and scenes have impact. If EVERYTHING is awesome, then nothing stands out, and as a result NOTHING is awesome :P 

You can see I always put the most effort into the close up shots, the wide shots are pretty rough :P This is why it's so important to develop your drawing skills for storyboarding, the more you can put down with minimal lines, the better and faster you will be. 

FULL SEQUENCE:

SWALLOWED STAR - DIALOGUE SEQUENCE

I never posted much from what I did when I worked for AXIS on this cool action show for Teens. This was the biggest learning curve in my career, where I really feel that effort trumped skill. That's all that we can do sometimes as artists, to be ready when an opportunity comes our way and then put 110% into it. 

ANIMATIC BELOW: