Blue Sky Storyboard Test

A week ago Blue Sky Studio sent me an e mail asking me if I would take a storyboard test for their studio. I gladly accepted the test. The scenario that they gave me was as follows: Scene:

Two characters are in a waiting room. They are strangers. One characters' actions annoys the other one.

Considerations:Make sure we can understand the characters' personalities. Include some action and comedy. Think cinematic too and have fun!

So this entire week I've been locked away in my room working on this test. I had a lot of fun with it. Below you will find the test that I took. Opinions and comments are gladly accepted. To give a general time line of the work that was done: I spent about 3 days thinking about the scene and what I wanted to do with the characters. In those three days I also did some small thumb nailing of ideas. I spent 2.5 days drawing, coloring, and scanning all of the storyboard panels. And I spent about 2 or 3 hours arranging all of the panels onto several pages. All of the drawing was done using a ball point pen, a felt tip pen, and a sharpie. The coloring was done using mainly Prismacolor and Tria Markers, but for the green color of the frog frog and for the yellow "Do not touch frog" sign, I used Photoshop CS2. All of the editing together was done on Photoshop CS2 as well. Enjoy.

Blue Sky

The other day I got an unexpected E-mail from Blue Sky Studio asking me to take a story test for their studio. Well I was SUPER excited and of course I accepted the test. They sent me the whole scenario that I have to storyboard and I have one week to finish it. Officially that week is up on Tuesday and I've been working like a mad man this entire week trying to come up with a good story that fits their criteria. The drawings above are some thumbnail rough sketches that I came up with for the story I am boarding. When my storyboards are finished and scanned, I will create a new blog entry and update you all with the final product. But for now, enjoy the thumbnails. Kids and Frogs should never play together!

School House Bulley

Here is another drawing that I did while substitute teaching for a High School math class. The students were all taking a math test, so I figured that while they were doing that quietly, I would draw something. And this is what I cam up with. It's a drawing of a bully fifth grader taking the lunches and the lunch money from the smaller Kindergartners. They're in line waiting to hand her their money/lunch. The actual drawing was done using a regular ball point pen. The coloring was all done on Photoshop CS2. I hope you like it. - Sergio