Karen J Lloyd’s Storyboard Blog

Yes, I love AC/DC.
And that photo. I took it for goodness sakes!
OK, this post will be a short one. I’m still figuring out what I want to write about next.
Consider this the ‘vacation wrap-up’.
But I wanted to show that I’m back and haven’t moved into a surf shack. Not yet anyway. And that I [...]

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I’m done.
It’s over.
Not just Hell Week, but my contract. Six and a half months, five episodes, 1100 pages producing 3300 panels…approximately.
I’m pooped. But I think (I hope) I did an alright job.
If I ‘leave the environment’ while I’m working, it’s real hard to get back in the groove. So I didn’t. I only left the [...]

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I am in the midst of my *final* Hell Week. Then I get a vacation.
Yipee for me!
So since I’m going to be quite strapped for time and content, you get a little potpourri of things in this post.
First off, if you read the comments you may have seen one from Toronto storyboard artist Dan Milligan. [...]

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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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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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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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