Karen J Lloyd’s Storyboard Blog

Lollipops for Debi
In the last post I told you five things that storyboarding professionally is not. In case they came off with a negative feel, I’m going to flip them and show the positive side to those five things. Because there are two sides to everything and it’s always a good idea to [...]

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I like to keep a positive feel here on the Storyboard Blog (sidenote: I have registered http://storyboardblog.com so it’s easier to tell your friends about it…so um, go tell your friends about it ). But I also like to keep it real for the people who want to do this for a living or [...]

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So what’s better for storyboarding, the pencil or the computer?
Well, for most of my career I have used good old fashioned pencil and paper. I’m working that way right now. But for one of my jobs I did work by drawing on a Wacom tablet directly into Flash. So I do have some experience with [...]

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Well, I’ve taken the Aniboom Radiohead Contest banner down. I posted about the contest a little while back here. It looked like a pretty OK contest even though I stated later on in this post that I wouldn’t enter it myself.
But since it was primarily a storyboarding contest and this being a storyboarding blog, they [...]

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Okey dokey. This is the second part of ’showing you your money’.
In the last post I covered the basics of starting to freelance in animation and/or storyboarding. I talked about setting up your invoices and for you Canadians, a bit about the wonder that is the GST. At the end of that I mentioned you [...]

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OK, I’m back. And I even had four days off…guilt-free. It’s a gift from above, let me tell you.
So here is the first ‘real’ post about handling finances and taxes as a freelancer after a request from one of my readers. See? I read my email and answer your burning questions! As best I can, [...]

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OK, I’ll admit it. I’m still pooped. I survived Hell Week, but I’m pooped.
I will do the article about money and taxes but my brain can’t quite handle it yet. I’ll post it up for Monday or so. In the meantime, I’m going to post this article by the very cool Christina Merkley. She’s a [...]

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