The Secret of Isis

As a kid, I missed out on the whole Sailor Moon craze. Funny to see how much a magical girl anime would have helped me through college assignments.

This past week, our class was to storyboard out a montage transformation sequence from the old TV show, The Secret of Isis. The idea was to pitch a new idea for the series intro.


So you can see what we were working with.

Using the same opening dialogue, here are the boards for my vision of a revised opening sequence.

Another Turn Around the Carousel

As I have mentioned before, my Visual Storytelling II class revolves around a single story that is revisited throughout the quarter.

This is my second take on my story "A Right Turn." I would consider the brainstorming session for this version to be simple-- I was able to implement many of my unused ideas from my last set.

Overall, I am happy with the drastic differences of this set, but I am afraid my craftsmanship gets a bit shoddy near the end. Due to some tight deadlines, I was unable to put the polish into these pages that I had really wanted.

But I take comfort in the fact that I completed this assignment on time and in full.


FINISHED PAGES:

PRELIMINARY WORK/THUMBNAILS:

Ad Comps: Clorox Toilet Wand

Getting my Don Draper on delving into the world of advertising.

Our class was assigned random household products (via drawing from a hat) and my product was the Clorox Toilet Wand. From there we had to draw up 12 Ad Comp boards for a quick TV spot. This assignment focused on telling a story through these aspects of advertisement: humor, quality of product, sex appeal, or celebrity endorsement.

So for a potty product--- I think smiles and customer satisfaction would make a sale. I wanted to do a cute little narrative about some bathroom bacteria.

Star Wars Episode VII

I've never been much for drawing a fight sequence. This was excellent practice!

For this storyboarding assignment, we were to draw out a 25board Star Wars lightsaber duel sequence.

My jedi and sith are some pretty strange aliens. I am not entirely familiar with the Star Wars universe, so I made do with some icons and motifs. Wolbec is whatever kind of creature that Kit guy was. Celeste is my own design, meant to mimic Queen Amidala's headdress.


CONCEPTS:

STORYBOARDS:

Critiques today indicated that some of my actions were unclear. When I meant for snow to have dropped down on Wolbec, it really just looked like he exploded. Woops.

Next time. Next time.