Author: maxforward
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Whiskey Commercial
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with the talented director Emil Khar on a whiskey commercial. Emil has a real flair for cinematic storytelling without relying on dialogue, which, as a storyboard artist, I really appreciate. It’s always so much more interesting to tell a story in pictures without words, because it…
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Free Professional Commercial Storyboard Template
I’m feeling generous! It’s a great day to give back to the community. Wait, what day is it? Anyway, the time has come for me to provide something of utility to the young storyboard artists out there. I have for you, for FREE DOWNLOAD (it’s on the internet, after all), my personal, made from scratch,…
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Nathan Fowke’s Online Charcoal Portrait Drawing Class
A couple of weeks ago I wrapped up Nathan Fowke’s Online Charcoal Portrait Drawing Class, taught (of course) by Nathan Fowkes (Fowkes, as in cow, as in moo) and offered through the good folks at Laafa. You can learn more about Nathan elsewhere, but let me take a moment to say that Nathan is the best art…
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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4 is here! Yay?
I was working onsite yesterday and got an email notification from Toon Boom announcing their new update to the successful and highly-lauded application, Storyboard Pro, now in version 4. The email touts the many new features, the most significant of which are the new “bitmap drawing” tools. You might be thinking “Don’t most drawing programs…
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Alamo: Meet the Getaways
Just a quick post today. Here’s a campaign I worked on at Brand New School a few months back and has been recently been airing: Alamo: Meet the Getaways. You might have seen them! http://youtu.be/f4e5SCYX5xE And check out the other three spots here: http://www.brandnewschool.com/Projects/DesignAndAnimation/MeetTheGetaways And here’s the storyboards! [slideshow id=31] So while the boards themselves were…
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DSW & The Fox House
Last year, on Halloween, I boarded the DSW commercial that is airing right now (early March, 2013): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwY5c7qOnKE&list=UUy9YrUdKJxzx6FPQrD_PytA&index=3 This commercial was a lot of fun to work on, and also very different, because I was up close and personal with the production, and in this case, it was a real treat. I received the scripts…
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Old Navy Funnovations Inc!
[singlepic id=594 w=320 h=240 float=] Well well well, Its been almost a year since I worked on these Old Navy spots and so it’s probably ok to talk about them now. For those of you who don’t watch TV (the only excuse you might have for not seeing these ubiquitous commercials), these Old Navy…
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K-Pow!! Zing!! Baff!
More comics! So, this month (December) my artwork will be included in Heroes of the North: CODA – Omnibus #3! It’s a collection of stories, with a bunch of artists contributing, and I’ve done a little two-pager for it. I’m excited to finally be in real print. I poured my skill into the work and I’m…
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Caveman!
So here’s a commercial I worked on back in April. I usually like to wait a while before I consider it “safe” to discuss a project on this blog, because, well, it’s not a good thing to release production artwork before the commercial airs! And even though I didn’t see this one air, I know…
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So yeah, I have a webcomic
A few weeks back, as I was away in Ireland, my Dad published the initial pages of our webcomic, Three Minute Max, which is updated like clockwork every Tuesday and Thurday at 12 AM, EST. If you haven’t already seen it, please check it out, as I consider it some of my best work. Superhero/Sci-Fi…
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Hockey meets Honda
Earlier this year I worked on a Honda commercial that featured hockey stars Nicklas Lidstrom and Corey Perry. In the spot, the athletes leave the sports arena and head to their Honda Pilot. Once inside, they are shocked to find hundreds of hats falling (as happens when an athlete scores a hat trick; 3 goals)…