The Making of Kooky Pets book. Chapter 8
Here we go with another step in the making of the book: the storyboard. This book features a chapter which content is basically a set of drawings accompanied by comments, in a sort of comics dialog. So I needed a storyboard.
A storyboard is a series of preview sketches and texts that show how the content of the final pages will look and how they will be featured and developed. As you know, they are essential in movies and comics. For the Kooky Pets chapter, I needed to know before hand how much stuff I was able to feature on each page and how it would be featured.
Each Kooky Pet has a 4 page chapter. This includes:
- One page for the character’s introduction -which is mainly text-.
- Two pages for the characters illustration, comments and descriptions.
- A fourth page that I’m not unveiling so soon. You’ll have to wait…
Here is a sample of one the storyboard sketches for a couple of pages that I’ve produced for the book. As you can see, they are very fast and simple sketch drawings. This way, I can decide how many elements will be featured and how I’m setting up the comments and descriptions.
Considering there are 13 Kooky Pets, it looks like an awful lot of sketches to do! But things are a lot faster and smooth when you can relay on a storyboard. It’s a guarantee that later you won’t need change your final work back and forth with bad surprises.
Now, that is the question: would you like to be able to have a storyboard of your next week of life?
Like it a LOT!! Tnx for sharing!
ha–if only life would deign to fit inside one…and follow directions…
this is another very good idea. and i just put it to use for the first time myself on a different project, today. how odd is that?
i really like this set-up; it will be fabulous to have the pet in his/her entirety, and then have close-ups of behaviors or physical details…
This seems such a painstaking process but in the end yield great results unlike taking short-cuts and having mediocrity. Thank you for sharing the process.