Storyboarding
Wondering about how a page of storyboarding gets produced? Here’s how!
The writer begins the day with the resident feline slave driver tell him that he must produce output:
Thus begins a long day… at a day job because everybody on the team actually has day jobs. But by evening, the writer within the writer emerges.
What’s the process? Well the writer starts off with a collection of ideas: plot pieces, dialogue bits and things that the writer wants to happen. The plot arc is planned out too roughly contain all of these parts in a sort of insane meandering of plot to include a bunch of completely unrelated ideas.
From there a script is written, which gives a page by page account of how a comic should look. This gets refined over time, with the dialogue being reworked and eventually every panel is decided (from size to the dialogue contained in it). Then comes the next stage! It’s storyboarding time.
Using nothing but a ruler, a pencil and printer paper every page of the comic is planned out in rough detail.
