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| "Beagle" storyboard |
Mo Willems
weekly format
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The
storyboard is the foundation or base structure for the book illustration.
Rough thumbnail sketches provide symmetry and flow. keeping us on
track as we put the entire book together. After the initial idea,
the storyboard is the most important element in writing a book.
Both classes
share the same class structure a combination seminar/workshop to
maximize your return in our limited time. This is a career building
class, not just an informational or project class. Therefore: Homework
is crucial. What we each get out of the class is directly proportional
to how well we complete out-of-class work. A major part of the benefit
of these classes is shared research: the books we choose to share
and review, the original ideas we bring to explore, and the process
we develop along the way, as well as benefits derived from direct
publisher research and contact. For each publisher there are specific
guidelines for submitting work. What I hope you all will take with
you from this class is a process to apply to your project of: writing
illustrating, editing, perfecting and finally acquiring acceptance
by a publisher, and getting your book produced. These two classes
have shared goals and develop along parallel lines arriving finally
at the same point with a published book. Good luck to all of us.
"Beagle":
http://www.weirdhat.com/
Images are a big part of children's books, whether written or drawn,
they paint the pictures we see when we read the books and influence
how the story is accepted or remembered. Whether we choose picture
book or story book, the job of the illustrator is integral. Remember
that we are telling two stories, one with words and word pictures
and one with actual pictures, designed to stand alone apart from
the writing to convey almost the same story as the words, but designed
to augment and enhance the experience of the word pictures. Neither
should be dominant, as far as we are able to control such things.
SHEEP IN THE
BIG CITY
Cartoon Network's sketch-comedy cartoon featured more than a Sheep
being chased by General Specific's Top Secret Military Organization.
Check out these two sketches and Sheep's disco dancing to the hit-song
"My Voice Is So High" (Written and Supervising directed
by Mo)
Every
week we will follow the same format. We will look at the homework,
discuss class samples, draw in class, discuss next week's homework
and end the class with a critique tag game. |
