CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hullo y'all! o.o/ Just so you know, I am still working on writing an American Manga. I'm pretty determined. Anyway, I'm changing my approach. I used to outline and then write from beginning to end (probably the best way to never finish a story). Anyway! I have come to fix this! With..., wait for it,... STORY BOARDING!!! Except I need to learn. Anyone have experience with SBs? Anyone have any advice on where to turn for to learn?

SDG

PatrickEklektos (post: 1473477) wrote:Hullo y'all! o.o/ Just so you know, I am still working on writing an American Manga. I'm pretty determined. Anyway, I'm changing my approach. I used to outline and then write from beginning to end (probably the best way to never finish a story). Anyway! I have come to fix this! With..., wait for it,... STORY BOARDING!!! Except I need to learn. Anyone have experience with SBs? Anyone have any advice on where to turn for to learn?

SDG

...Technically speaking, a manga or comic IS a storyboard. The same art skills are required for both] it[/I] the comic, but if you're really interested in storyboarding, this person's portfolio offers some good examples of it:
http://www.thestoryboardartist.com/Site/Film.html

If you want to draw a comic, I don't recommend storyboarding it first as you'll probably experience some major burnout. Maybe try thumbnailing?

I'm thinking Patrick does mean something like thumbnailing, or roughing out the comic before drawing it "for real," or something like that. I'm interested in this process too since I am thinking of trying it for the first time myself. I always went straight from the script to the "for real" pencils.

I wonder whether this is like what they were calling a "name" in the recent anime Bakuman? It looked to me like a really rough, loose, sketchy draft of the comic, just to establish page layout, camera angles, placement of speech balloons, and so forth. I can see the advantage of this as perhaps one doesn't get too committed to a particular approach before starting the "for real" pencils.

In any case, I'm interested to hear more from others who know more than I do on this subject. Which would be practically everyone.

Yeah, I've done quite a few.

This helps. To know how to make a proper story board, you need to learn cinematography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematic_techniques

Hope this helps

R86 hit it, thats exactly what I was talking about. Thanks man.

SDG

PatrickEklektos (post: 1473477) wrote: I used to outline and then write from beginning to end (probably the best way to never finish a story).

Actually, that's what I do most of the time, and it's how I make sure I finish. It's a "different strokes for different folks" thing.