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What is helpful to have in order to become a storyboard artist?

I like the concept of it, it just I am unsure what I need to have prepared.
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Ellen’s Answer

Hi Faith

Storyboards are an important step in visualizing any art project where there are complex and sequential steps involved, wether it is a short storybook of 4 pages, a sixty second TV commercial, or a full length movie. I'm not a storyboard artist, but I used to do storyboards with my students to get their ideas organized with the short books we made in class. Here is what I know.


You need to have really solid drawing skills and good design skills. Practice drawing people, animals, things, buildings, and so on. Knowledge of how the human body works (anatomy) is key. Knowing how 2 point and 3 point perspective works to get things, objects, and people in correct spatial relationships is also important.


Take art classes in school and practice, practice, and practice. For drawing people, either have family or friends pose for you, or draw people from catalogs and magazines; pay attention to proportions and how the clothes fit on them. Remember to start out with the basic shapes and work later on the details. Do the same with magazines and websites about home design to practice interior spaces and outside architecture. Show your drawings to your art teacher for help in improving them. Pay attention to those seemingly unrelated "design" projects in class, because being able to set up a page or a scene so that it is interesting in terms of the elements and principles of design will improve your storyboarding skills. Finally, since computers are becoming the norm in any art field these days, be sure to take computer graphics classes to learn and to practice with some of the basic programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator.


There are lots of tutorials on Youtube about storyboarding. Browse through some of them and watch the artists at work and listen to what they say.


Best wishes!

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Monique’s Answer

Hello. My husband has been an animated Storyboard Artist for the past 15 years and worked on Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes, Ninja Turtles Cartoon, and Spider-man. When he went to art school in Boston, they did not teach story boarding and he had to learn as an intern (once he had experience, he began to get paid). When I went to art school, they taught story boarding but for music videos and commercials.

So the moral of the story is ... find out if you school even teaches story boarding AND you will likely need to intern for a while in the industry of your choice. There are several industries that require the use of story boarders: story boarding: commercials, music videos, cartoons, live action movies, elearning, game design, etc.

There are also other roles in the same vein of story boarding in animation and gaming, like character design, background designs, prop design, and revisionists. These may be great starting areas too.

Monique recommends the following next steps:

Find out if the art school you want to go to or already go to teaches story boarding
Understand the industries that use story boarding
Find out about interning at an organization within the storyboard department or art department
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