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Recent Boards compilation
Updated when a series is aired.
Thumbnails
I love thumb-nailing an episode. The constraint of a small outlined panel seems to really focus me. Composition, and direction of action becomes very clear and making the wrong decision becomes very obvious.
Here are some of the thumbnails from Not-A-Box, directed by Siri Melchior at Passion Pictures. A super lovely preschool show. Its on Apple TV and if you have a little one you should check it out.
'Fly In The Sky Balloon' was the first board I worked on for this brand new show. The design direction was flat, painterly and child-like, so standard 3D board thinking would be contradictory to the style when animated. Thumb-nailing the whole episode like this really allowed me to consider and retain the flat feel of childrens art, even as the balloon sailed over the earth.
Sunny has to be one of my favourite characters from the show... so melodramatic! Ha ha...
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Bits and Bobs
I spent a few days working on this scene to experiment with some martial arts moves. We have karate, Wushu spear and Capoeira.
You know when you are waiting on a brief and you start noodling something? I started this character movement and realised I really didn't want to bother drawing hands and face, so the long sleeves and hair made this a great exercise.
This started out as a circle rolling around, then it became a tyre. Then it seemed pointless not to have 'Quake mech' from the Lego Ninjago movie on top of it.
In the time before storyboard pro
I can barely remember that far back! Commissioned when I was an illustrator in the early 2000's, I had my first insight into storyboarding for advertising.
Here is one board I've rescued from oblivion and put into a basic animatic. It was for a Pitch by Bird Studios for an advertorial film for the International Committee for The Red Cross. At the time there was no design available. I spent about 3 days on it and tried to incorporate a possible style direction, which is why there are some panels with colour.
I was drawing on paper and thank goodness I no longer have to scan and tweak things to get a board out now. Whether the work went ahead, I have no idea, so I googled the film to see if it existed anywhere. An animated film from the same script was uploaded to You Tube in Oct 2025 by the ICRC, which is kinda cool to see. Being from the same script (without the stipulation of African visual style) it has parallels, and I don't know when or by whom it was made.
Other boards From the early 2000's
ADVERTISING
Action Man (which is funny because one of my first ever jobs was as visualiser for Action Man packaging at Hasbro UK).
Rimmel 'The London Look'.
Crayola 'Tree of Life'.
MUSIC VIDEOS
Iron Maiden 'Wildest Dreams'.
Iron Maiden 'Filthy Future'.
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