Category: Samples
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Call of Duty: Ghosts – Cinematic Storyboards Pt 2 – “Clockwork”
It’s awesome when the final product closely resembles the storyboards. It clearly demonstrates success of the artist in his role as a visual storyteller. In this side-by-side comparison, you can see my original boards on the left and the final screenshots on the right. In storyboarding this sequence, I first reviewed the script and thought…
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Celebrity Apprentice / Walgreens Storyboards
Invariably, a career in commercial storyboarding will eventually involve drawing celebrities endorsing products. Sometimes the celebrities not only endorse products, but also the retailers that the products are sold in, and even the charities that benefit from the sales of the products, and ultimately the show that features the celebrities that compete to benefit the…
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Pitch Boards – Living Social
Here’s some boards I did last year for one of my agency clients, presenting campaign ideas for Living Social, that cool company that sells discounted experiences to adventurous adults. That’s the basic theme of these boards, to show people having fun doing things they wouldn’t normally do, like skeet shooting (for girls), painting nude models,…
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Kingsford Charcoal “Mother’s Day”
This week’s storyboard is from a Kingsford Charcoal commercial, aired around Mother’s Day in 2012. It’s a humorous yet touching interaction between father and son as they discuss the merits of going the extra mile for Mom… vs slappin’ some meat on the grill and eating like Real Men. Luckily, Mom’s down for steak too.…
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Sport Chek “Determination”
Here’s a spot I worked on earlier this year- A Sport Chek commercial starring NHL player Sidney Crosby. The premise is very straightforward- many slow motion shots of Sidney training hard in the gym, with the speed ramping up and building in intensity, and abruptly ending with tagline and logo lockup. I like working on…
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Qatar Foundation – Pitch
Behold, another set of pitch boards for a commercial that wasn’t awarded. You might be thinking, “Wow, you had a bit of a losing streak, huh?” Actually I pull these samples arbitrarily from past work as it “ripens” for posting, so there really was no streak per se, but I think it’s also a learning…
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VALSPAR Pitch
Here’s a sequence I boarded for a Valspar paint commercial, which we pitched, but alas, did not get. What a shame, because I had a lot of good ideas and was able to clearly spell them out in my ‘animation’ here. I dare say most other storyboard animatics don’t get quite to the level that…
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Beachy Breezy boards for Gillette
It’s late and I drank too much coffee- might as well post some storyboards! Right? So here we go: A few months back I had the pleasure of working on a Gillette spot for their 3 Venus Summer Goddess Embrace line of razors- I’m sure there’s a distinct shaving advantage for each one, but, being…
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Sparkling Ice
So if you’re in LA, you’ve probably noticed these Sparkling Ice billboards going up everywhere- I know I see three of them when I commute to the west side. You might have also seen their TV spot as well! Well, I storyboarded it. First, take a look at the video, and then I’ll discuss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUYJSjNTvg…
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Hotwire!
So, I’ve had to hold this one back for a while, but now I’m able to talk a little bit about the artwork I’ve been doing for the past few years on this Hotwire campaign. I’m not going to go into too much detail- other than to say this a rare scenario where I worked…
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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…