The Big Picture: Portfolio Submissions & Omissions
There was once a time when you had to explain what a storyboard artist was. This was back in the pre-digital days of paper and markers when most assignments were performed in-house. Fax machines...
How to Land a Storyboard Artist Job with No Experience
Even Without Experience, You Can Get A Job As A Storyboard Artist
If you're a storyboard artist, then you already know that you have the talent and skill necessary to tell a story with pictures....
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...
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...
7 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Looking For An Artist’s Agent
Do you want to draw for a living?
I am the first person to advocate anyone taking on a creative career. However, if you want to make money at it, expanding your professional creative side...
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...
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...
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...
Complete Guide To Animatics
5 Steps to Creating Animatics for Your Next Project
Animatics: What Are They?
The next step after you’ve created a storyboard is to turn it into an animatic. But what exactly are animatics? Animatics are videos that play...