[Sterlin]

This may have been brought up before, but that's before my time here. Does anyone know of a site on the subject? I did an online search and came up with over 6000 related sites, but nothing on how to. I order that Story boarding 101 book, from Amazon.com and it stinks like a trash dump! I was mad when it came and I got a good look at it. It coast me more then if I had went into the bookstore, and this guys a sh@*&y artist that has nothing new to say that I didn't already know, they advertise that it had 260 something pages and it has only 133. This is not a book it's a DAMN PAMPLET! Thanks to all in advance who helps me out

[nontextualmatter]

hate when they do that, damn pamplet bastards

[Fred Flick Stone]

I found a book called Shot by SHot. It is a book on film directing, and concentrates on the story board aspect. I also have another book called the Art of the Storyboard...storyboarding for film, TV, and Animation by John Hart. These two books helped me out a great deal, besides the classes I took up in Hollywood. You aren't going to find a great deal on the subject. The best bet is working in house and learning there. Get 3d max, or another 3d program, get shot by shot, learn the lenses used, the lens ratio, go back to the 3d program, set up your scene, and use the camera provided in the program to get a better idea of the skew the lens creates. Hows that for a run on sentence...


[This message has been edited by Fred Flick Stone (edited August 02, 2000).]

[Fred Flick Stone]

Also watch a heap load of really good movies. Hit pause from time to time, usually at the beginning or end of a scene, and look at how the shot looks on screen, draw it before pause releases. This is a quick sketch block in of a already proven scene. This will also help you greatly in learning how shots are blocked in for the boards...

[proximo]

Hey there man ! .. well i took a story bording class at school last semester and it was really good .. helped a ton ,, ill look and see if i still have the hand out the teacher gave and maybe scan them in .. if i still have them .. anyhow more to the point .. i know new DVD's are adding in the boards as the special features and shit like that .. for example , sixth sence amd i think fightclub has all the borads for the movie , along with the concept art too! really good movie also :P .. but ill look into getting them hand outs if i still have them .. as long as no one tells on me :P

[AliasMoze]

Pixar is a good example of an animation house with good storyboards.
Pick up the Toy Story and/or Bugs Life big books. They have many storyboards, even ones done in oil pastels.

Mozeman and I saw Lasseter recently over at Disney Institute, and he showed a reel with the color scripts compared to the final renders. The similarities are amazing. Those guys are masters at telling a story with shots.

[Get-up Kid]

check out the Art of Star Wars books, DVDs, and the Episode 1 illustrated screenplay. Be sure to check out the Abyss Collector's Edition DVD. It has every storyboard for the film, and they are big (one per screen). Like Fred said, too, look at filmmaking books as well...

[Chapel]

If your looking for a storyboard sample I believe the Fight Club DVD has the entire storyboard on it.

[Incarnatation]

yeah what fred said about pausing the movie is good advice, especially if you have a dvd player on your pc, as the frame doesnt get distorted like on Video.

Speaking of DVD does anyone know how to capture frames from a paused dvd movies ? Ive tried every method and program under the sun but all i ever get is a empty grey jpg.