The Art Of The Storyboard Diorama

[JohnReid]

Walt Disney: " at our studios we don't write our stories.we draw them"
A storyboard artist is really a good storyteller.The drawings must have meaning and feelings behind them.They provide great way to begin to visualize the content of your story.The storyboard artist must be a great communicator of ideas and not necessarily a great illustrator or animator.Storyboards allow film makers to see a blueprint of their movie before even going into production.By tacking a sequence of images up on a wall you can visualize the entire story before eyes your eyes and study it for flow and continuity.It is a very effective and inexpensive way to develop a story.Boarding it up saves time and money.

 

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[JohnReid]

simple comic book style of storyboarding.

 

[HiroshiAirborne]

This is absolutely incredible, John! I'm looking forward to more of what you offer.

 

[JohnReid]

Storyboarding with pics

 

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At the rear R//H corner of the diorama, sitting on the loadiing dock awaiting packaging and shipment ,is an old Curtiss OX5 engine from the JN4 that is being being robbed for parts as it sits in the hangar.This is a very early water cooled, in -line engine developed by Curtiss in the early in the last century and really is worth a closer look.

 

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Along the rear wall of the engine shop the Camel wings are being crated for the trip to Hollywood.Originally it was planned to load everything on one truck with the wings being lashed to the fuselage sides but it looks now like another truck will have to be sent to pickup the wings and flight surfaces.

 

[JohnReid]

wrong thread

 

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Along the engine shop wall sits an old air show car that was used for car/airplane races and ground to air wing walker transfers for many years.Sitting there in the weeds it seems to be have been forgotten,its glory days long gone by.
The guys delivering the coal and wood would be glad to see it outta there to make their job easier.The boss however hates to throw anything away, so there it sits rusting away.

 

[1969]

that car look stunning and definitely looks like it has sat in the elements for some time.

Nice work

Steve

 

[JohnReid]

 

[JohnReid]

Sorry folks I got a bit ahead of myself on this storyboard walk around.This is the view through the backdoor,with the WC on the left and coal bin on the right(not visible in this pic).The boss is in conservation with two pilots ,one in flying gear and the other in RFC uniform.
The boss in the fedora seems to be giving his best impression of Al Capone standing in the shadows of a early sunset on this November afternoon in Canada.(maybe a little rum across the border guys?)

Please note: there is a more understandable sequence to this story in my photobucket under the My Book album.

 

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