Above is what passes for a script and storyboard for one of these toons. Those blocks on the right are the storyboard. The doodles and words on the left are sort of the “script”, and there are about four more pages of those. They aren’t necessarily in order. From that mess of words and doodles, I pick out the bits I like and stick them in the storyboard. I only sort of use the boards to set up shots, but it also gives me an excuse to quit dithering and nail down what stupid joke I am going to use in one segment or another. These individual boards usually just cover “shots”, and I whip up more detailed breakdowns if I plan on moving someone around or make a marshmallow shoot blood out of its eyes.

This is also how my writing process for the JibJab pieces tend to work, although there you have an additional step of translating the story and sometimes lines of dialog into a short email for approvals and suggestions.

The nightmare is over. Or it will be… probably! Someday! Production has begun on a new cartoon. I guess. Above is the first character drawn for what will surely be about 2 minutes of stuff I can’t put on any professional demo reel. All that is left is everything that isn’t that drawing of a cat and the several pages of crazy person ramblings and doodles I call a script.

I plan to keep the blog updated with production notes, but I’m really secretive about my stuff for some stupid reason. Oh no, I hope someone doesn’t steal my idea to make barely animated people talk about ding dongs and then show the ding dongs!! I’ll be ruined. Worse, my ding dongs will be ruined!

I am currently transitioning web hosts, so you may notice things are a bit messy in places. I’ve also done a fresh install and rechecked the theme. This hopefully purged the last of the weird “this page has a web virus”  stuff that some people have been experiencing.