Story Artist

You Are

Artistic and prolific: your keen eye for lighting, color, form, and composition inform your work from ideation to creation; youʼre a master of the rapid sketch, quickly generating ideas knowing that sometimes it takes a hundred good ones to get the great one.

An experienced collaborator: your artistic hand reflects years of experience refining your craft, but youʼre also a natural and avid collaborator; you coat-check your ego, but are eminently capable of articulating and defending your next great idea.

Multi-dimensional: youʼre as experienced and knowledgeable with pad and pencil as you are with Photoshop and similar 2D software; you're also comfortable trekking beyond Flatland to experiment with Unreal and other 3D programs.

Genre-bending: you have cat-like reflexes for chasing a great yarn, whether in contemporary comics or ancient mythology; youʼve built a Noahʼs Ark of archetypes, ready at a moment's notice to set sail into brainstormy waters.

Anatomically correct: you have advanced understanding of human and animal anatomy, but arenʼt afraid to stretch the limits; exaggerated, stylized proportions feel perfectly balanced in your hands.

A passionate cinephile: given you regularly stay up watching and pausing your favorite films to sketch a few frames, youʼre able to understand the audience. Drawing from your own filmic anecdotes you have built a library of mise en scène.

A scholar of semiotics: Some of your favorite draftsmen are Satoshi Kon, Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Kim Jung Gi & Takehiko Inoue. Although your appreciation for sequential art knows no cultural or formal bounds and stretches into the non-sequitur and even the abstract sometimes. You know Scott Mccloud's Understanding Comics like the back of your hand and have a copy of Shot by Shot or In the Blink of an Eye nearby at all times.

You Will

Sketch, ideate, and iterate new narrative concepts in collaboration with fellow previs artists.

Collaborate closely with writers, animators, engineers, and previs artists to define a story that is both narrative and visually cohesive.

Develop detailed storyboards for 3D designers and animators to implement into working scenes.

Be an avid researcher and collector of story tropes, archetypes, narrative devices of all kind.

Challenge film conventions and explore new territory of virtual production and ICVFX.