Partington’s Proficiency

Wow, I can’t believe we’re into third week already.  I feel a little stressed and semi-swamped with assignments.  Need to get back into the swing of things, back on school time.

The first part of our first assignment in storyboarding was to interpret two poems and create concept story beats for each one.  In class everyone pitched their ideas, chose the best from the two and created rough story beats that were more refined, cleaned up and applied proper tonal renderings.

The poem I ended up working from is called ‘I’m Nobody’, by Emily Dickinson.  It reads -

‘I’m nobody!  Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.’

‘How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!’

And based on that poem, below in yellow post-its are my concept beats and on white index cards, the rough story beats.  The beats read from left to right.  Below those is a rough character lineup/size comparison.

Storyboarding is a bit different than last year, so this was challenging, but fun and rewarding.  I’m becoming more and more interested in story and wouldn’t mind being a story artist someday too.  Enjoy.

Here’s my first assignment from my storyboarding class.  I procrastinated (^___^) and left the ‘boards until 1 AM the night before.  And I still got an “A” on the assignment.  In six panels we had to visually explain a typical morning before and arriving at school.  I would have liked to have spent more time on these boards, but time management hates me.  Enjoy.