Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
That’s not a question.
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with your storyboards.
Not as much as you think.
So to help out, I’m going to tell you what the wrong stuff is. The mistakes you might be making that I would make you fix, without argument. Because they’re wrong.
Here we go:
1. SCREEN DIRECTION AND CROSSING THE LINE
I could [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
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 [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
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 [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Adrien Van Viersen
Here’s Adrien’s take on whole ‘working for free’ thing. I’m in Hell Week, (so thanks for the post Adrien) and I’ll be back next week after I come up for air. - KJL
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After reading through Karen’s posts on the “Should you work for free?” topic, I feel compelled to give my two [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
Well the real question is, “Should you work for free (or very little money) at any time during your career?”
And the short answer is, “NO, OF COURSE NOT! ARE YOU INSANE?”
But I digress.
Would I storyboard for free?
Nope.
Have I done storyboards for free in the past?
Nope.
Have I done storyboards for a lowered rate?
Yes.
And I never really [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
This is what I hate.
When being offered a job, the person tries to ’sweeten the deal’ by telling me the show has easy, cartoony characters to draw.
This translates to, “So this show won’t take you too long and you can just whip it off faster than usual, right?” or “Yeah, I know you’re burnt out, [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Karen J Lloyd
I’m a ‘Big Sister’ to a nine year old girl. We’ll call her Dee. If you ever want to do something cool for a kid, become a Big Sister or Big Brother (shameless plug for those guys). Dee has a little stuffed Webkinz dog. We’ll call her Biscuit. (No, that’s not her in the photo…I [...]
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