Storyboard Artist

Description

A Storyboard Artist is one of the team members who visualize an animated movie. The storyboards are the foundation that all other departments base their work on. They have to be able to draw quickly and clearly. They work with the Directors and Head of Story to develop expressive, entertaining storyboards. They usually are given script pages as a guide but also must be able to take an unfinished idea and flesh it out into a full scene.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs and/or illustrates concepts through sketches, painting and storyboards for feature films and commercial projects
• Creates storyboards in the form of presentation boards as well as rough thumbnail boards.

Qualifications

• Traditional Fine Art Education, Bachelor’s degree or equivalent;
• Ability to express character emotions and attitudes through drawings.
• A sense of filmic staging and story -telling.
• Knowledge of anatomy, perspective and composition.
• Ability to come up with inventive ideas to plus story material.
• Sense of entertainment and humor.
• Effective communication skills (ability to speak English is a plus)