Avoid These Common Mistakes When Creating Your Storyboard Portfolio
Creating a storyboard portfolio is crucial for showcasing your skills and landing jobs in the competitive storyboard industry. However, building a portfolio that truly stands out requires more than just compiling your...
Back to the Drawing Table with Renee Reeser Zelnick
Freelance Finance and Solving the Self-Employed Mortgage Mystery - Part One
Several of our freelance storyboard and artist colleagues have asked me how I solved the freelancer’s mortgage mystery. In an ever-evolving economy, is the...
How Color Works in the Storyboard and Cartoon Industry?
Did you know that the human eye can distinguish 10 million colors? That's quite impressive, isn't it? Many centuries ago, color helped ancient people to distinguish and identify information, but now humanity...
4 Steps to Becoming a Storyboard Artist
Television shows, video games, advertisements, and movies all use vivid and visually impactful stories to engage their audience. To develop effective visual content, production companies employ storyboard artists at the beginning phases of the...
How to Become a Top Animation Artist
HOW TO START A CAREER IN ANIMATION
Networks such as Disney and Cartoon Network, countless other animation companies, video game designers and advertising agencies are nothing without their teams of professional animation artists. Animation...
How to Negotiate a Project Rate as a Storyboard Artist
Certain aspects of being a professional illustrator or storyboard artist are more challenging than others. One of the biggest challenges artists-for-hire face is their pricing structure. The age-old dilemma of not wanting to price...
4 Polite Ways to Say “No” to a Client Request
4 Ways To Politely Say "No" To Your Clients
As a client, has anyone ever told you "No." If so, how did it make you feel? Did it disappoint you? There are times when we need to tell our clients "no"...
Storyboarding Techniques Used in Successful Films and TV Shows
Storyboarding is essential to the pre-production process for films and TV shows. It involves creating a series of images representing each shot in a scene and the camera angles, movements, and other...
The Pros & Cons Of Joining An Artist Union
The Pros
Whether you're just getting started or being a seasoned storyboard artist, you've probably come across one of the artist unions. If you haven't joined a union as yet or you're skeptical, please read...
13 Tips to Create Effective E-Learning Storyboards
Leave it to Walt Disney and his crew to unknowingly create a magical way to structure an E-learning class. In the early 1930s, a Disney animator created the first storyboard in history by tacking...