Max Forward – Digital Storyboards

DIGITAL STORYBOARDS

My name is Max Forward, and I’m a Storyboard Artist and Illustrator based in Los Angeles, specializing in Advertising, Short Form Content and Video Game Trailers.

My most impressive recent work can’t be posted here until the “heat” dies down, so everything I’ll post here is at least 2 years old (as of June 2024). That said, I’ll be focusing more on updating this site with samples in an effort to help my industry more firmly establish the importance of our craft in these trying times.

If you have questions regarding availability or just want to ask a storyboard artist some questions, please feel free to email my anytime: maxforward@gmail.com and I’ll do my best to help 🙂

  • Birchbox: Better Way

    Birchbox: Better Way

    We live in a pretty fascinating time- one needn’t even leave their home to shop for the rarified necessities!  The selection available to us online is infinite, and it’s up to operators like Birchbox to curate the best of the best and bring it to our doorsteps.  Meanwhile, the “old guard,” if you will, are…

  • Gillette Venus 2015

    Gillette Venus 2015

    I consider myself fortunate to have the pleasure of regularly working with very talented directors who appreciate my passion for good storyboards.  And so it is that I can look forward to, every year, working with director Katja Brauer on her latest Gillette Venus spot- you see, in Germany, they have the German version of…

  • Clorox to the Rescue

    Clorox to the Rescue

    Earlier this year I had the pleasure of doing a BUNCH of shoot boards for my clients at 29 Black on their Clorox spots, among other things.  Four spots in total, and they are pretty simple, so not much explanation needed, but they all go along with the theme of “Your house gets messy and…

  • Dude, Draw My Car

    Dude, Draw My Car

    Here’s a fun commercial I did for my great clients at Bark Bark– A great opportunity for me to draw high energy classic car action! In this spot, we see two young men tooling around in a classic Camaro- living out their personal Fast and Furious fantasies- After lots of quick action cuts and inserts,…

  • 10 Years In… Portfolio Tips and Advice for Those Just Starting Out

    10 Years In… Portfolio Tips and Advice for Those Just Starting Out

    The other day I received a very nice email from a reader of this blog, which expressed his interest in beginning work in the field of commercial storyboarding, and it briefly described the common frustrations one faces at the outset of one’s artistic career- “breaking in,” seemed, as he put it, a Catch-22 situation. How do…

  • Corona “New Can” Storyboards

    Corona “New Can” Storyboards

    This is one of my favorite recent projects- a great concept, flawless execution, and I got to have a lot of creative input. The concept is really simple- a Corona can is situated in a dreamlike beach scene, and transforms into a palm tree, and from that palm tree sprouts another palm tree and between…

  • Payless “Parkour” Storyboards

    Payless “Parkour” Storyboards

    Seems like everyone’s always rushing around, late for something.  Hurry up!  Finish faster!  Boy, I hear a lot of that.  Just kidding, nobody’s faster than ol’ Maxi.  That’s why I was called to do this spot. They needed shoot boards ASAY (As Soon As Yesterday) and … well… frankly, we did this project so quickly,…

  • Glade Storyboards

    Glade Storyboards

    Just a quick one today- I can only take partial credit anyway, since I was mopping up for another artist who started the project but was not available to finish it.  Really though, they should have just called me in the first place! Maybe they needed a slower artist, to, I dunno, take his time…

  • More NOS Storyboards…

    More NOS Storyboards…

    Man, I need to do some pushups or something, get back into fighting shape.  You may not believe this, but I coulda been a contender… What’s that?  You don’t believe it?  Well, moving on… Closest I’ll ever get to the ring, is drawing these MMA athletes for NOS energy drink commercials.  It’s just a few…

  • Olay “Red Carpet”

    Olay “Red Carpet”

    Another fun awards-season spot.  Seems like I had a bunch this year.  This was a fun concept- highly stylized shots of woman’s night preparing to walk the red carpet- shot in reverse- so we reveal the secret to her glamorous beauty- Olay Regenerist face cream! This spot was highly developed by the director, a very…

  • “A Day in the Life” Storyboards

    “A Day in the Life” Storyboards

    Here’s another one of my famous dancing storyboards.  I don’t quite know how I always seem to be drawing choreographed dances.  Ironically, I’m a terrible dancer.  Oh well. These storyboards are for a kinda companion marketed synergistic branding tie-in cross promotional effort between E! channel and Degree (the antiperspirant), starring that Famous Choreographer you recognize…

  • Proactiv+ Commercials

    Proactiv+ Commercials

    Man, pimples suck!  I still get pimples now and again, and I certainly had my fair share in high school.  Maybe it was all the soda and doritos and taco bell… nah…. Enter Proactiv+.  It’s the skin clarifying formula we’ve all been waiting for!  And it’s endorsed by mega-artist Adam Levine, among others. So this…

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