When I successfully secured a Voluntary position as an Intern Animator, the manager assigned me the task of producing a storyboard featuring one of their original characters, Aero.
I read the three scripts of when the character will show up to help three different protagonists in three different settings. I picked the first script, which will take place in a modern cafe, because its modern setting will make it easier for the production team to engage with the story and visualise the narrative.
I did my research on modern cafes like Costa in Crawley online to get the feel of a hospitality environment, and looked at characters as references for my main characters. The main characters of the story were the Customer, based on Marco Diaz from Star vs. the Forces of Evil and the Barista, based on Stacy Pilgrim from the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim.
I created the storyboard thumbnails on My Idea Generator with a pencil within three days. I took photos of the thumbnails with my smartphone and uploaded them to my desktop computer. I opened up Krita, a free digital painting software and started working on the storyboards. I placed the thumbnails on the Krita workspace and added new layers for tracing with my Wacom Creative Pen Tablet.
After tracing, I refined the drawings of the storyboards for cleaner images, then coloured them in with the Fill Tool.
I picked Shot 6 - Sequence 3 as the highlight of my work with ElCode as a Storyboard Artist because it shows Aero, the blue character, pointing out the mistake the protagonist made when he ordered a cow on a cup, demonstrating the confusion of misinterpretation caused by a person unconfident in their Spanish language in a visual, metaphoric and humorous manner.
This misinformation shown in this image also highlights the need for virtual advisers and helpers like Aero to help people practice their foreign language, which will help them make the right interpretations with their words to other people with native languages.
Looking back at this storyboard sequence gives me a sense of pride in the work I did for ElCode, and I hope to continue working with this company when I am needed next time.
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storyboardartist storyboard preproduction internanimator internship voluntaryposition freelance…When I successfully secured a Voluntary position as an Intern Animator, the manager assigned me the task of producing a storyboard featuring one of their original characters, Aero.
I read the three scripts of when the character will show up to help three different protagonists in three different settings. I picked the first script, which will take place in a modern cafe, because its modern setting will make it easier for the production team to engage with the story and visualise the narrative.
I did my research on modern cafes like Costa in Crawley online to get the feel of a hospitality environment, and looked at characters as references for my main characters. The main characters of the story were the Customer, based on Marco Diaz from Star vs. the Forces of Evil and the Barista, based on Stacy Pilgrim from the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim.
I created the storyboard thumbnails on My Idea Generator with a pencil within three days. I took photos of the thumbnails with my smartphone and uploaded them to my desktop computer. I opened up Krita, a free digital painting software and started working on the storyboards. I placed the thumbnails on the Krita workspace and added new layers for tracing with my Wacom Creative Pen Tablet.
After tracing, I refined the drawings of the storyboards for cleaner images, then coloured them in with the Fill Tool.
I picked Shot 6 - Sequence 3 as the highlight of my work with ElCode as a Storyboard Artist because it shows Aero, the blue character, pointing out the mistake the protagonist made when he ordered a cow on a cup, demonstrating the confusion of misinterpretation caused by a person unconfident in their Spanish language in a visual, metaphoric and humorous manner.
This misinformation shown in this image also highlights the need for virtual advisers and helpers like Aero to help people practice their foreign language, which will help them make the right interpretations with their words to other people with native languages.
Looking back at this storyboard sequence gives me a sense of pride in the work I did for ElCode, and I hope to continue working with this company when I am needed next time.
https://www.twine.net/signin
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