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 🙂

  • Brain Games – Storyboards

    Brain Games – Storyboards

    Brain Games is back!  And I storyboarded the promos for the second season.  These were some of the most challenging spots I’ve ever worked on.  Brain Games is a show about the fun quirks of our minds, and many episodes focus on various kinds of optical illusions.  Well, for this project, we were tasked with…

  • Corvette Stingray Storyboards – “Machine”

    Corvette Stingray Storyboards – “Machine”

    I love doing car commercials- I feel like I draw cars well, and quickly.  Well, my speed was put to the test when I was called to board this commercial. These are “shoot boards,” meaning these are the last draft of the storyboards before shooting starts. Often they are hurried, and rough, because at the…

  • Airborne “Everyday”

    Airborne “Everyday”

    Everybody needs to take Airborne Everyday vitamins everyday, everybody knows that.  Why, no, I’m not a doctor.  I just draw them in commercials. Medical advice aside, this was a pretty simple and fun spot to work on.  Brought a little bit of color to the project with the vitamin “snow” effect, which seemed to work…

  • “Better” Apple Commercial Storyboards

    “Better” Apple Commercial Storyboards

    When you work on an Apple commercial, it’s apparently so secretive, that you don’t know you worked on an Apple commercial until you see it finished!  How was I to know?  I thought it was a Solar Panel commercial or something!  Or maybe a Public Service Announcement!  Nobody tells me anything… I worked on this…

  • Call of Duty “Extinction”- Cinematic

    Call of Duty “Extinction”- Cinematic

    Lucky me, I got to work with the very talented folks at The Mill earlier this year, and storyboard their cinematic cutscene that they were doing for the new Call of Duty “Extinction” series.  It’s a DLC expansion game, I believe, which means it’s a smaller, downloadable game, part of a very popular franchise, and…

  • “Bleach This” Storyboards

    “Bleach This” Storyboards

    Just a quick one this week.  These boards were done over at BNS (they keep me pretty busy!) as part of a competitive pitch… and they were awarded the job!  Always nice to hear.  And since the boards were very tight and concise, no further revisions were needed, and the went straight into production.  BNS…

  • Knob Creek Storyboards

    Knob Creek Storyboards

    Love me some bourbon.  And it’s always fun to mix business and pleasure.  For this spot, much product was tested in the name of “research.”  I’m passionate about quality boards and spirits. Brand New School produced this spot, and their talented designers had pretty much already won the day with some very impressive style frames.  My job…

  • “What is Smart?” Vizio

    “What is Smart?” Vizio

    So this was a great project to be a part of.  The producer at Mirada knew me from my time at Brand New School and recommended me for the storyboards on this spot- :60 commercial introducing the “Smart” TV from Vizio.  This was another one of those “come up with something nobody’s ever seen before”…

  • “One Day” CSU Online Plus

    “One Day” CSU Online Plus

    Whatever your thoughts on the for-profit school system, their services need advertising like any other.  These commercials usually fall somewhere between the “Do YOU need an attorney?” commercials and the “But I cant AFFORD car insurance” commercials in the typical daytime TV commercial break.  “Get YOUR career cookin! at the Center for Culinary Arts!”  Yeah…

  • Years in the making… Lost Treasure Hunt

    Years in the making… Lost Treasure Hunt

    In the early stages of my career (my “faking it” phase), I advertised my services on Craigslist and got involved with all kinds of fun projects that never amounted to anything. I’m proud now to say that Lost Treasure Hunt, a project from those Craigslist days, has developed to a point that it has top-grade…

  • New Website Layout!

    New Website Layout!

    Time for a new look!  I’ve updated the site a bit and included a new theme, “Virality,” which kind of suits this format better, in some ways.  I miss some things but overall I think it will be easier for visitors to navigate and see more of my work at-a-glance.  The old posts are still…

  • Lady Gaga – G.U.Y. – An ARTPOP Film

    Lady Gaga – G.U.Y. – An ARTPOP Film

    So, this DEFINITELY will go down as one of my most memorable projects.  My first music video storyboard was a bit of a doozy- and quite a whirlwind – but a great experience, a huge challenge, and a lot of fun.  Unlike most of my posts where I go in depth and try to provide…

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