What ‘I Kissed a Girl’ Can Teach You About Cartoons

Probably nothing…on the surface.
But let’s dig a little deeper.
I may go so far into left field with this post you might have to send out a search party. Here it goes anyway, so bear with me.
For my trip to Montreal, I flew Westjet. I dig Westjet because you get your own personal satellite TV that’s [...]

“The Beat”: When Silence is Golden

I’m attempting to show two things with this post. And let it be known there are many images ahead.
The first thing is to show how I would have broken down a scene from a TV show (that I didn’t work on). I talked about this at the end of my last post on dealing with [...]

Dealing With Dialogue: When the Words Don’t Matter

Now this is not to infuriate the writers out there.
The words *do* matter in many ways. How else would we know what the story was about or what the characters were thinking? And for those very dialogue-based shows (when the gag is verbal, not visual), the words do indeed matter.
But sometimes they don’t.
Please keep in [...]

10 Signs to Know if You’re Reading a Strong Script

Before I get into this, I just want to make one thing clear.
I love writers. I respect writers.
I know how hard it must be to write a script from a blank page. Just as I know how hard it is to draw a storyboard from a blank page. It’s very easy to come in after [...]

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