Balloon Kitty

A proud kitty learns what really makes a good cat when her baby’s balloon gets carried away by the wind! Drawn in Storyboard Pro. Created as part of Karl Gnass’s online Storyboarding class.

Grid Export - Final Drawings

Grid Export provided below to allow a quicker glance at the story and how the shots related to eachother.

Grid Export - Rough Animatic

Below is a grid export of the first pass of the animatic before notes. Featuring this pass here to show my process and what my roughs look like once I’m boarding in Storyboard Pro, and to show where I took notes and plussed up scenes in the final pass.

Rough Thumbs

In this class we were exploring traditional boarding and digital. We boarded our first thumbnail pass in photoshop in a style based on the paper and pencil days - i.e. Just the main story beats, not tweening for animatics. Below is that first pass.

Sketches and Explorations

Below are some sketches and explorations drawn before getting into the first thumbnail pass and some cat studies from youtube and from specimens at the natural history museum.