storyboard excerpts for honda

i did this job recently for honda. i will post some of the frames that feature the car. these are all done with pencil on bond. freehand sketches. very quick. all angles are invented and do not exist as references:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/55975sprinks_LOWREZ_1.jpg

another part of a larger sequence:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/55975sprinks_LOWREZ_2.jpg

dad and son bonding thing. the whole spot is about that, and, of course,
the car. the bottom frame of the car only was drawn in about two minutes.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/55975sprinks_LOWREZ_3.jpg

all of these posted storyboard angles are invented. i repeat this to drive home the point. i only had a flat-on 3/4 front and 3/4 rear angle reference of the car. the storyboard artist must interpolate, if you will, what is not provided.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/55975sprinks_LOWREZ_4.jpg

the idea of the spot is the dad and kid get in the middle of a sprinkler attack while playing catch. they find refuge in the car (honda). they go to another park or some shyt like that, on some scenic drive route, to escape the sprinklers. they return home bonded and happy from the drive experience in the new car. hey, man, it ain't my idea. i just create the shots:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/55975sprinks_LOWREZ_5.jpg

there's heaps more shots, drawings, but they are heavy on the actors in the car. without those, and the proper order, you kind of cannot understand what is going on.

also, i want to add, too, as some may not quite understand, this is *all* i do for a job. this is my day job. and night job, at times. in other words -i don't have 'another job.' this is not a hobby for me. this is my mortgage and food and gas and movies. and that was a goal i deliberately went for.

and there are other ways to make a living with drawing besides what i do. many more. so it can be done. look at me. i'm living proof of it. and all of this is not done "on the computer." it is all hand-drawn. this is why i have laxed behind some people in the digital age. but thanks to lemorris, and others, i have started the photoshop journey and now use it to make money, too. ;)

if you can solidly draw, period, and then use the computer, you can become an unstoppable force. so many people are discouraged away from drawing. and uninformed as$holes with authority can kill the dreams and ambitions of talented people. so don't listen to them. listen to me. i am an as$hole with authority who will tell you the truth.

oh yeah, i forgot to add that the honda somehow makes them "magically dry." like whatever, but that is why in a frame up top somewhere you see the kid and dad looking bewildered. actually, the dad looks like he's about to choke or something. but he's confounded as to why his shirt is so dry.

ooohh... I want that job! :smile:

I don't understand the storyboard, but the drawings are cool and quick.

BTW honda is stealing the father/son commercial thing from toyota's camry commercial. :disappoin

Nice drawings, that looks like it would be sort of fun to do.

they should cut out the father son parts of it...

Good sketches!! I like the forth sketch down with the landscape.

ooohh... I want that job! :smile:

I don't understand the storyboard, but the drawings are cool and quick.

BTW honda is stealing the father/son commercial thing from toyota's camry commercial. :disappoin

commercials rip-off each other constantly. the idea has been done
in another way years ago. and shall be years from now. :biggrin:

Your story board reminds me of that saab commercial where its sticking to the raod.

Your story board stuff is very awesome as i would have assumed itt would be. where did you go to school if dont mind me asking?

Your story board reminds me of that saab commercial where its sticking to the raod.

Your story board stuff is very awesome as i would have assumed itt would be. where did you go to school if dont mind me asking?

kennesaw state college in marietta, ga.

cool, I like the loose, flowing sketchy appearence of them. Apparently you can draw people very well too.

kennesaw state college in marietta, ga.

Oh, wow, i know people who go there.

Sorry, back on topic now.

Wow Chad thats hot!, im guessing that the featured car is the 4 door Accord. Nice stuff!

Oh, wow, i know people who go there.

Sorry, back on topic now.

you live in georgia? i now live in los angeles.

Wow Chad thats hot!, im guessing that the featured car is the 4 door Accord. Nice stuff!

correct. the accord. thank you, RB, btw. :)

you live in georgia? i now live in los angeles.

Yea i live in atlanta, its hot and humid..

And i cant get my drivers licensed.

its a bitch of a state.

I think im dying.

Yea i live in atlanta, its hot and humid..

And i cant get my drivers licensed.

its a bitch of a state.

I think im dying.

yes. i hated living there; glad to have left it. LA is much better in general.

good stuff, the scenic shots are my favorites, i wonder is it always this easy, 2-3 minutes here & there and its done? if you do not mind me asking what did you go to school for & how did you get into storyboarding?

...btw what so wrong with georgia?

Hi Chad,

Cool art, can't help but think, "Wow, he drew this stuff from his head!" I could never do that, awesome! Is drawing from imagination something one learns in school or did you have to pick that up on your own? Since I only took art in high school, we never drew from imagination just from still life.

Take care

al

good stuff, the scenic shots are my favorites, i wonder is it always this easy, 2-3 minutes here & there and its done? if you do not mind me asking what did you go to school for & how did you get into storyboarding?

...btw what so wrong with georgia?

always this easy --yes and no: cars are easy to draw. they're just boxes and lines. but people with emotions and actions are harder to draw. and the shot must be imagined and thought-out. the direct profile shot of the car was a no-brainer. many more frames are problems to be solved involving clothing styles, emotions, shot composition, shot continuity. and changes happen constantly between director and storyboardist. hours can be long into the early morning.

i have a BA degree from Kennesaw State College in Marietta, GA. that is all. many ask me this question and it really has no meaning. nobody teaches storyboarding. my college degree has nothing to do with my career as it is today. nobody cares or asks this when i am picked to do a job.

i got into it by drawing fake storyboards and submitting them to agencies and production companies. eventually, someone called for a real job. this is often how comic book artists start as well. there is no marvel comics degree. there is no storyboard masters program.

georgia. nothing is 'wrong' with any state of existence unless you happen to hate it. i would never have the opportunities there as i do in hollywood. besides the overly humid weather, the redneck southern culture, lack of diversity geographically and culturally, there's nothing wrong with it. and there are rednecks across the globe, in any place you will go. but i dislike the south. i'm glad i was raised on the east coast, however, and not the west. but i am likewise glad to have moved on to take my upbringing and it's good traits elsewhere.

i do miss the thunderstorms, though. love those.

and, yes, al, schools seldom, if ever, teach drawing from imagination. and this is reflected by most people who draw anything whatsoever. including me for years. drawing from the mind is an entirely different set of brain tools that few can pull off. rather, few attempt to go there. why? because, especially at the beginning, it is a painful and uncomfortable thing to do. and one must do it constantly like learning the piano to get any good at it.

since very few people see the value in learning to draw, fewer still ever do it. but it is always a double-standard when people elevate or highly compliment someone who does draw well. many of the experts and naysayers and pessimists and parents and teachers who diminish the importance of drawing are often the first to highly regard the one who actually does make it -what an absolutely fukked up world.

the same goes for any creative person in the arts: this pursuit of a dream or talent is regarded as superfluous and irrelevant, as one must have a "real job" to make it. --the girl wants to sing. the society laughs at her. she becomes christina aguilera, the world worships her, she laughs at them. she can buy all of their houses and cars. plus she gets to keep singing. forever.

cool, thanks for "breaking it down" i asked because i was just wondering whether you knew you were going to pursue a career in an art related field or sort of fell into it. Because alot of the storyboard artists i have heard of went to school for art or design, one guy named ryan church, is work outrageously good site: www.ryanchurch.com .

"drawing from the mind is an entirely different set of brain tools that few can pull off. rather, few attempt to go there"

that phenomenom still confuses me, that someone can sit & look at a picture for 20+ hours and create a masterpiece, but give them 20 minutes and a blank sheet of paper and they get fustrated? I still get fustrated with that myself, because it is something i have done so many times, but for some reason it just look on the paper the way it is in my head.

I know what you mean as far as the double standard thing, all through school all i did was draw in class, i never was particularly interested in school although i was a decent student. Teachers would always tell me that "doodling" was not important in one sentence but then when the school had art exhibitions or class art tprojects then it was something that should be pursued.

Anyway i do think it is changing, because art & design seems to be getting a lot of attention now in the media.

tokes, thanks for the link. ryanchurch is a conceptual artist for film. that is yet another venue for commercial art. unlike storyboarding, which is typically fast, sketchy, continuity-centric, conceptuals are just as the name says: variations of an environment, creature, vehicle, set, or all combined.
that is all done digitally nowadays, rarely hand-drawn. yet ryan uses painter to give it a traditional, yet slick, look.

you may be right about the tide changing. in ways, some software-centric careers in design are rekindling, ie, revisiting, tried and true principles of art, as those are the roots of it all. and the accessibility of information has created many professional subcultures.