I wanted to challenge myself to write, thumbnail and board out a short story thing in 3 days— and here’s the result! + some frames I liked!
There’s a few things I’d definitely go back and push, but I’m really proud of myself for sticking to the challenge and knocking this out!
Doing this challenge made me realize that I give myself waaaay too much time to do projects. Also— I need to stop using the word “projects”😂 there’s so much pressure in that word. I def want to start doing more of these and scale back a ton. Trying to train myself to get faster, looser and just board way more in general, not just when I’m in need of a new portfolio piece. I’ve started way too many “projects” and let them gather dust bc I gave myself too much time to do em and lost interest over time— so this was a good affirmation for me to show myself what I can do in a short period of time! Maybe I’ll try to do something in 3 hours next time 🤔 lmao yikes
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tjyOG1Hk65Q9v3c7kHwUD01smOV5ptwScTm6Gfng_s8/edit#gid=0
I've been collecting Storyboard Resources for a while and finally had a chance to organize them into a sharable spreadsheet.
To give a quick explanation, there are 4 main sections
YELLOW - Resources
These I can highly recommend
https://movie-screencaps.com/ - website that screencaps movies
https://animationscreencaps.com - website that screencaps animated movies
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post - gifs of animation sequences. It's searchable!
https://www.pureref.com/ - a really cool program where you can put your model sheets into one spot and have a floating window on your desktop
GREEN - Books
These are all the books I've heard are good to read. The Pixar Recommended ones have a star in the right column
RED - Documentaries
These are different videos that I've found that were cool. Some of the awesome ones are
10 Tips on Writing better Dialogue
https://youtu.be/qfQpJxRP8ew
Mike Hill - Jurrasic Park Analysis
https://vimeo.com/165599495
Mike Arndt - Toy Story 3 Lessons learned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBcwt3QlY_8&ab_channel=MichaelArndt
Film Courage - Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/filmcourage
BLUE - Short Films
The blue section is dedicated to short films. There are so many amazing short films out there, but I can never remember their names. So I made this section searchable by keywords
You can go to Edit - Find & Replace
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Hope this can help all of you Film Makers, Story Artists and Story lovers 💛